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It Is What It Is

It is What it is – weasel words for our times

We live in an age 
Of the weasel words
Orwellian thought police run amuk
Words used as weapons
To limit critical thought
And avoid rational thought

These words are everywhere
Few question them
Most fall in line
Hypnotized lobotomized
 by these weasel words

the president is a master
of using words as political weapons
to demonize his opponents
to browbeat them into submission
throwing up mental traps around them

it is what it is
what does that even mean
what is the it that is
and what is the reason

that it is what it is
no one can answer
no one really knows

it is what it is after all
and who are you to question
the President’s reality?

And so it goes
The endless parade
Of the weasel words
That have corrupted
Our minds and our very souls

Doing what they are designed to do
Shutting down our critical thinking
As we all submit to the needs 
Of the corporate system
That has taken over the world 
 
And that is the meaning
Of it is what is

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




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