Who Is More The Idiot



Okay.
You had it your way.
Now let's play,
Who is more the idiot.
And, it's my turn to go first.

If a menace,
Already known to be tricky and slick.
Doing this for years.
To lie, fraud and deceive.
And getting attention repeatedly,
From people giving money to support...
Every move this menace does doing it.

And...
Think about this,
On a regular basis...
Is follow when announcing,
What it is people can expect him next to do.
For at least seven years or more.
Giving what he does,
To leave evidence and proof.
With the people left in awe.
Cheering and applauding,
Their quality of life approaching close...
From being destroyed and their sanity too.
Which would you pick to be more the idiot?

'Whew gee.
Why are you making your game so difficult?'

Okay.
I'll make it easier to say.
The answer is not multiple choice.
There is one menace. Right?
Doing what he does alone.
And supported to endorse his actions,
Are many allowing him with attention given.
To ruin their way of life with this known,
Told to them.
Watching him do this on a daily basis.
Not to guess but be warned about it.
For almost a decade.
Who would you pick to be more the idiot?

'Now I know why you made your game,
So difficult to play.
If you made the answer plural.
Like saying 'idiots'.
I would say the people.
Since one idiot alone,
Left to condone all the madness described?
Would be jailed and imprisoned.
With all that to admit observed to witness.
And...
I'm not one good at all playing,
Games of the mind hypothetically created.'

Either way,
Glad I am you're not easily duped.
I played this same game.
With a few other people.
And immediately I was labeled,
An unpatriotic nonconforming.

'That I can understand.
All of the games you and I play,
Are not meant to offend,
A way of life fictioned to delude reality.'

Exactly.
Not with an intentional purpose.

'Exactly.
Some people are quick without thinking,
To defend their beliefs.
As if children too sensitive not to know,
When a game on them is played.'

Tell me about it.
Everyday I'm learning that lesson.
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Written on June 06, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on June 06, 2023

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Scheme Aaabx cxxxdxe Fxcghxxxxgxhb dx Aaxxixjixcekb lamxmixfcFgx axlmxa xaxd Dc Dgxxk ej
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,046
Words 450
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 5, 7, 13, 2, 13, 12, 6, 4, 2, 5, 2

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