(a person who loves their country
and, if necessary, will fight for it)

over the last
nine, or so, years
the term patriot
has garnered a
foul taste with
the orange stain
permeating what
was a noble ideal
into a perversion
of it’s true meaning

it doesn’t mean
licking boots who
enrich themselves
while lying out of
both side of their
serpent tongues

it isn’t ronnie
selling crack to
fund a trickle down
war on democracy
or having the
unmitigated gall
to dare darken the
meaning of freedom
by declaring any
who disagree as
fucking traitors

this is a country
founded by traitors
who had just about
enough fucking shit
from the rich tyrants
and their draconian
need to insert their
god into everyone’s lives
as a way to keep the
sheep docile while
they rape the world
to build edifices
emblazoned with ego
to make up for how
flaccid and small
they always were

a patriot doesn’t sit
and watch as the melting pot
burns into a toxic sludge
poisoning the amber waves
gone unharvested because
the civil war which took
one hundred years to
become civil rights has
become an inconvenience
to amassing more wealth
for the corporate overlords
and their secret pedophile
group hangouts just outside
of govermental reach

a patriot isn’t brainwashed
by talking heads who spew
only the hatred which aligns
with their generational trauma
who blindly follows oligarchs
while gleefully signing away
any and all rights they
claim to cherish while having
zero fucking understanding of

see, they want you to think
you’re the patriot because
you happily swallow the lies
as you post false narratives
and isolate your loved ones
leaving yourself with only
their cause to fight for
because it is easier to do
what the gestapo orders you to
rather than standing up for
what you know is fucking right
the promised wealth and protection
is as good as locking the shackles
onto your own limbs and claiming
you’re doing it for freedom

the game was rigged so slowly
laced with honey to hide the arsenic
as the middle class greedily drank
each and every lie they were served
the lunatic fringe is intoxicating
when all you’ve ever known is
needing just a little more than
the system is willing to give so
they hang that carrot of hope
and watch you work yourself to death
while they grow fatter by the day

if someone else is doing all
the thinkin for you
you aren’t a patriot
you are a fucking tool
the problem is when
you’re just so happy
to be needed, to belong
you sell yourself out
for something you were
too smart to fall for

the republicrats
and democrans
don’t want you
to be successful
they want you to
make them succeed
for every dime
they take a nickel
and expect us to
thank them after
it is time to wake
from the delirium
of opiates and
false flags which
keep us looking
in all the wrong places
when the problems
are wearing flag pins
and killing our planet
while claiming they
do it for all of us