you scream insults on Twitter
until your fat lungs shrivel and recoil
and beg you to give the topic a rest
long enough for them to gorge themselves
on the October smog
until your voice wears thin on patience, and low
on pure nerve
maybe you hit the mute button
on your inner demons, to tackle theirs
pause all Instagram notifications
just let the world have it
because you’ve had it with the false narratives
give them hell, give them the mouthful they deserve
we’re all idiots anyway
with amplifiers distorting our truth into white noise
Right?
might as well say what we think we mean
with half the guts and ambition we think we have
knock ’em dead with our memes
our Google-sponsored fact-checks via Wikipedia
and if we’re silenced, we’re silenced
but not before we go off on a tangent on Facebook
or we rip this elitist talking head a new one