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The Emperor’s New Clothes Redux

(“Perception and Reality Merit Badge”, 2015, original oil)

It’s not enough that the Emperor was fooled
Now the media is insisting we be too.
But everyone has that innocent child within
And that child can see the truth
And all too often simply speak it.

The latest trans shooting,
And it seems all the mass shootings now
Are done by trans,
Has the media all over the world
Repeating the Canadian’s lie that it was a girl.

But anyone who looks at the actual story
Can see immediately what is true
And what is nothing but a bald faced naked lie.
The simple fact is a mental illness doesn’t become sane
By merely wishing it so.

And a mental illness which so readily murders
Is at its core Life-destroying not Life-affirming.
Boys are boys and girls are girls
And although the twain shall meet
They will never become the other.

(2/12/26)

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