Marketable Hatred
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Marketable today is the display,
Of racial hatred.
The use of ethnic diversity,
And replacement theories as a tool.
Has increased the price of T-shirts worn.
Depicting affiliations,
As to who amongst those most ignorant...
Are entitled to freely express,
An urgent need to have their mental health...
Addressed to prioritize,
With significant attention given.
And...
With it noticeably done,
On TV making millions for advertisers.
Selling over the counter addicting drugs.
To the ones in the privacy of their homes.
While drinking alcohol with friends.
Invited and encouraged to get 'wasted'.
As sexual ointments used with other devices,
Are sold and where one is instructed to go
To satisfy that 'urge'.
Less clothing to expose more nakedness.
Without worry or concern
Of contacting a preventable sex disease.
That too can be handled trouble free.
And weapons to purchase,
To defend oneself from threats to feel...
As if a rational thinking normal human being!
And God knows,
That consciousness and common sense used?
Is enough these days to be accused for being,
Too conscious of a threat...
Around the ones dumbed down.
Caring less,
Where their next step may take them.
And these...
Are the remarkable marketable,
Hated to love the hatred ways...
Of our lives!
'So delicious is the taste of your sarcasm.
Do you offer requests.
To be personally delivered?'
No.
My preference is to stay,
Publicly disgusting.
That way...
I offend the ones,
Who are quick to express...
Their pretentiousness kept,
Offends and appalls them to defend.
More than others they assume are impressed!
But needless to say...
I'm not the one seen walking away,
From pretensions to imitate them made!
Your hatred to market is for profit.
My hatred to display has been personally,
Homemade to create it.
That is yours to claim as ownership.
And not a cent,
From it have I earned legitmately.
You know...
I don't create the rules.
Or the changing of laws!
Can you sniff a bit of whiff from my drift?
'Can I what?'
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Written on October 22, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on October 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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