Smug Muggers Of Justice



Too many amused continue to assume,
Those growing to follow paths...
Of a spreading self destruction.
Can be compared to juvenile vandals,
Finding their way to express...
Their search to discover themselves.
And defended.
Depending upon a demographic.
That represents an acceptance,
For such nonsense to tolerate.

Although...
These tantrum throwing,
Thankless, ungrateful, spoiled.
And disrespecting pampered fools.
Are excused from their despicable actions,
If...
They should happen to be,
Proven descendants...
Of notorious rule and law breaking,
Deceivers.
And skilled criminals from the past.
Who have achieved adulation,
With a smug muggers of justice appeal.

And...
Considered as heros,
For children taught to emulate.
In the hopes one day they too,
Will sell their accomplished misdeeds...
As books to read.
Inspiring movies and plays produced...
To have every theater filled to capacity.
With every seat sold.
Based on lies told to tell.

'Nothing in that movie we saw,
Approached the truth!
Or came close to imagine,
It could possibly be...
One grand elaborate lie.
Hinted to have just a smidgen,
Of non-fiction.'

'I know.
So outrageously ridiculous it was.
But...
It wasn't truth,
That kept us...
Riveted to our seats.'

'Tell me about it.
This is my third time seeing it.'

'Me too!
I still can not believe,
What people will buy...
To accept as reality.'

'Even those boots God wore,
To create the Earth in seven days?
Not a mall around sells them.'

'I already told you that.
The 'word' has it...
They had been custom made.
And the crooks who mugged God?
At the very end of the movie?
Did you notice,
How the camera slowly zoomed in?
On the leader of the gang.
Wearing those same boots!'

'Yeah.
That's right.
The one with the booming voice.
Declaring...
'We are the true designers of those boots!'
Just as the credits began to scroll!'

'Then...
Who was the one,
Portraying himself to be 'The Chosen One'!
With his back,
Turned away from the camera?'

'We'll have to wait,
Until the next book or movie is created.'

'All of it,
Has made the people crazed.'

'That's what good marketing does!'

'Oh yeah?
And how do you know that?'

'Both of us were looking,
For boots God wore in a movie!'

'Well...
At least now we know,
We will have to what until...
The designer is revealed.
In the next movie!'

'I can not believe,
We've been made such fools!'

'Don't worry about it.
I will always be here,
To defend your ignorance.'

'My ignorance?'

'One day,
And hopefully together...
We both,
Will find those same boots to wear.
To declare ourselves,
True Disciples Of Faith!'

'God?
If at all possible.
Please send to me someone,
To slap me awake from this...'

'Daydream?'

'No.'

'Nightmare?'

'No.
But you are close.
I was thinking...
Idiot!
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Submitted by Lp,jr. on October 22, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XABXXCDXEF GHXIXXJXHAXBX XXFKXXXJXL XMBJNBB GXOMPX QQ KRNJ XXX SQXTJPXXU VXXHUX XBBXX FD QX X VS HJ LGXXJ RI QXE XXXXCX TXBX GXHO
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 2,617
Words 487
Stanzas 22
Stanza Lengths 10, 13, 10, 7, 6, 2, 4, 3, 9, 6, 5, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 5, 2, 3, 6, 4, 4

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