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A RESPoNSE AGHASTLY

A reply to the audacity of sycophants

By Victor MendezPublished 22 days ago • 1 min read
A RESPoNSE AGHASTLY
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Author's note: every word is intentional. Every misspelling is intentional. I rarely refine or rewrite anything because I live off the rawness of each word and the tearing off a bandaid is to feel the pain behind the healing-intentional.


A RESPoNSE AGHASTLY

A reply to the audacity of sycophants

9/11/2026 @10:03am


The visuality of your sensuality

ruptured against my wall

of insecureality!


The blasphemy of your invasion

of the equation

of my borders caused me to reassess my choices

of letting unknown voices

gather at the edges of my nexus

of confidentiality.


The insanity of your primality

drawn in pen scrapes proximate

to the intersectionality of my door open...

door closed.


The words curved and penciled in clown makeup

and chaotic spacings

scratch trails in my psyche!

Burning violent in the puncture of each word

as the clown pie faces the crowd of sycophants...

not knowing IT...

or maybe do know IT...

still offering up the neck in masochistic forbearance

of the pen stroke slicing down!


THE KING IS NAKED!!


He has no lingual clothes but do I care?

No!

Because his penile expressions thrust more than a sentence

dutifully exposed to the public as art!

Artificiality?


And You...


will be on bended knee

before king and queen

Giving praise...and more praise

To those upon a dais of unaccountability

While I...


ask for forgiveness in my irrationality

exposed in my wild reactionality!

Actually, no.


I reconsider.


I need no forgiving but thank you.

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About the Creator

Victor Mendez

Born in 1958.There's a lot of road beneath these feet.Worn out pairs upon pairs of shoes.Been a ranch kid,a city kid,a Marine,a dad, a grandfather now,an avid reader and just recently began writing poetry in 2015 just to vent.

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    Written by Victor Mendez