Rationality exorcised,
Culturally terrorized,
Freedom lost in the blink of an eye,
Federal coercion,
Statewide indignation,
Selling flag nooses for resuscitation,
Christianity stifling,
ISIS plea-bargaining,
Embracing flawed ideology without even reading,
"Societal oppression",
Active aggression,
Against the bystanding citizen and the egalitarian opposition,
Educational revisionism,
Internal terrorism,
All in the name of matriarchal Marxism,
Gender criminalized,
Youth institutionalized,
Submitting future generations to intellectual genocide,
With a porcelain mask of pseudo-benevolence,
You spew lies and propaganda demanding executive orders of masculinity's temperance,
So with societal lynchings,
Your dogma is breaching,
The foundations of animosity,
Into the world of pure insanity.
Take a look inside
& you will surely find
The knowledge they hide
From us in order to preside
The rules have been applied
& now we're left to divide
Water full of fluoride
Only making us collide
Nothing but downsides
As we're left to die at they wayside
Bad intentions creating mad inventions
Just to misguide worldwide
Born vegetarians forced to eat rawhide
Humanitarians looking over their backside
Simple citizens expected to abide
By the laws created statewide
All things set aside
Enjoy the ride
As we wait by the graveside
Though, i must confide
We have ran out of time to decide...
Alabama’s Governor: My Way or No Way
By Elton Camp
In office only for the second day,
Governor says do religion his way
The deacon in the Baptist Church
Wants us not to be left in the lurch
He says, “I want to be your brother,”
But it requires his belief and no other
And Jesus as savior you have to accept
Or into the deep abyss you’ll be swept
If you want to be my brother or my sister
Then listen to me, M’am, Ms or Mister
If Jew, Shinto, Buddhist, agnostic or Islam
Then the wrong way I say that you’ve come
People thought a governor they’d elected
A statewide pastor they had not expected
To his personal belief the man has a right
Speaking as governor, keep it out of sight
He apologized, but not for the thing he said
Will his tenets the man continue to spread?
If his “core beliefs” made anybody get mad,
As a “born-again Christian” it’s just too bad
It was a wrong way his governorship to begin
Alabama’s unsavory past had come to an end
But what does our brand new governor then do
Except hateful prejudice to promptly renew?
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