remember when the towers fell?

remember how the whole country shook 

its head in judgement,

"those extremists" 

 

we the meek

we the meek wear no weapons
many of us don't even eat much meat 
let alone want to capture and murder 
lawmakers 

the liberals

and so soft with sorrow, we sing 

"human! human!
every one of them 
human!"

And if Hitler had had Twitter?

Would not you have silenced his violence if given the chance? Or would you have told all the German Jews, “freedom of hate speech is more important than you.”

Perhaps you abhor the comparison between Trump and Hitler. 

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” 

And now look at you all. Believing. 

Stop the count! 

Recount! 

Discount 

      this election.

It is time for your awakening, for your reckoning, and yet, here you are doubling down on our divided country's double standards. Do you not remember this past summer? When Trump had peaceful protestors blasted with tear gas so that he could pose with your bible before your church? 

You want to say anything you want to say to anyone you want to say it to as if words are not how we make our plans. I assume then you have never been called the n-word or whore or fag by someone on the street who wanted to hurt you. Neither have I, but I hear the fear of human prey. And I know how humans hunt and harm. First with rhetoric and then with weapons. 

Well, here is my rhetoric. And here is my speech. It is indeed free. And you may have it. Though I promise mine is a plea for peace and empathy and, if I may say, sanity.