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The Madcap

(599 posts)
Tue Dec 3, 2024, 08:50 PM Dec 3

Cast Aside [View all]

We are not needed
We old and feeble
We black and brown
We women
We gay and trans
We poor and disabled
We who’ve aborted
We the retired
We the liberal
We the immigrants
We are worthless
We are burdens
We are hated
We are not needed

So who is left?
Not many
Just the people
In “We the People”
In the remaining minds.
Everyone else is cast aside

When you’ve rid yourselves
Of all of us
I hope you enjoy
The whitewashed slabs
Your own graves
That you have dug
With your own hands
By your own actions

When you finally realize
You drained the blood from the country
That you really did need us
In your now colorless clouded world
You will then be cast aside
By your own insidious deeds

Too bad…it’s too late for you.

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