Hate Speech

("Enemy of the State Merit Badge", 2011, original oil) Hate Speech Outside I’m the same man as ever A bit older, softer, wider for sure, Wiser perhaps, but basically The same cheerful, friendly, outgoing And compliant guy I’ve always been Inside my heart has turned to iron A molten mass pushing outward With my head a volcano ready to explode From a world gone wrong, churned and turned upside down By all the official confabulations to a nation of sheep At every turn we are bombarded And everywhere you turn you see the cowed Driven down into themselves From class and sex and race wars To the Wuhan lab virus and January 6th show trials Everywhere the sadists now Hold the power smirking with twisted glee As the Everyman withdraws a little further From the lies without To the truth within Outside you’d never know How much hatred and ill will I hold For you sadistic f**ks who have used and abused our trust War is coming, across the waters, to these very streets And I just pray an asteroid comes instead In preemptive strike To destroy your sacred swamp and save US all From another phony election and plandemic Making a new ground zero burn for a new nation to rise Indivisible with liberty and justice for all (6/19/24)