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The Fickled Pickled Herd

So quick to judge any breach of etiquette
Such breaches at the whim of the fickled herd 
What is there to do but watch your back
Or compulsively stay in line
Or just say f*ck it! 
And be on your way
Because no matter how hard you try
The cancerous cancelling crowd will lie in wait
To pounce on what was once their own

Just look at what’s happened to Trump and Musk
Each darlings of their leftist peers 
Until they weren’t 
Not for changing in any fundamental way
But just in their need to keep being themselves  
Without allegiance to the fickled pickled herd

If anything the life of a human
Arcs from bound and dependent
To independent and free
Free to chose and free to lose
And so we grow
And can come to know 
What it is to be mature
If it’s the last thing we do

(11/13/24)

Copyright © James Moore

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