Woke But Asleep
Say It Is Not So Beau
Woke but asleep. Say it is not so, Beau!*
Did they call you, Ishmael’s Moby-Dick?
O Your God! Twain’s masterpiece is awash
With your asinine brain out of backflow.
You are a moron on something too quick.
Your agenda excludes any panache.
Your schoolmasters never learned to infer
Between then and ironic and now’s truth.
How is the weather down there in your gut?
You can’t spend our time only to deter
Free speech and freedom to hate uncouth youth.
We’re heading lowly to the final cut.
Awoke with a headache down to my chest.
I must be tired of your destructive wrest.
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* Also “handsome/beautiful” in French
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Censorship is an issue because they choose what they erase. There’s a difference between hate speech and speech that you hate. Tom MacDonald
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Tom MacDonald - Fake Woke
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Patrick M. Ohana
A medical writer who reads and writes fiction and some nonfiction, although the latter may appear at times like the former. Most of my pieces (over 2,200) are or will be available on Shakespeare's Shoes.
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Great going! Keep up the fantastic effort
Relatable indeed.