D.O.G.E.

Don't tell me, because I already know

You don’t have to tell me, I know that we’re tested

I know how it feels when the things that we’ve come to rest on

Are crumbling all around us, almost like they were selected to

Come across as Down, Out, Gently Ejected

(Huh, look at that…)

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m hardly as naive

As I started out after ‘16, barely able to breathe

At the changes that seem to take us backward and without reprieve

I had to guard my heart from its chamber upon my sleeve

But this new world I now conceive?

This world

This is more vitriol than even I can believe in,

Leaving a taste in the mouth that leaves me heavin’

Barely breathin’, comically grievin’ the kind of

Revenge that resembles Doctor Octavius Getting Even

We may need a superhero to rescue us now

Green skinned, metal mangled

Or web slinging, set to wrangle

How outrageous and how bangled

To observe from this angle

The organizations we’ve watched for decades as the ones

Doubling Obligations, Getting Entangled

I had seen this kind of devastation recently, but even then

Drake Only Got Eviscerated by one enemy, decently

The bias of recency increases the price of peace

So now we know that Diplomacy Offers Greater Environments

To put the pieces together and clean up equally

Even if those that used to claim for something now meekly

Can only hold a Dreadful, Obsolete Genuflecting Event

To attempt to claim that they made Putin come peacefully

But seriously, how did it come to this, man?

My memory is like an open wound

When I think of what histories they’re trying to rewrite

Seeing what they’re Doing Onto Generations Entombed

We knew that these strategies went nowhere

But we returned to nowhere from over wherever there was

We are welcomed back to the long outdated playbook of

Denigrating Opponents, Generally Elevated

Dropping Off Gun Enforcement

Dumping On Guantanamo’s Exigents

And trying to govern not with laws, not with a shared vision to deliver

Not with bringing us together and making us stronger, and less bitter

But with a laundry list of rants, risks, and retribution

Delivered Over Gatherings, Emails, postcards, tiktok, snapchat, and twitter, (oops, I mean X)

That serve to Drown Out Government Employment

And Degenerate Our Generations Enjoyment

And maybe I’m not even immune from this force, entirely

Where I sit, I might need to rewire the

Very way I operate, optimize, and remain optimistic of my society

While refusing to cow to the most fascist of fires and declare that

I am Done Obfuscating Grammar Entirely

I know the occasional party out there gains from this

But it’s at the cost to the greater good, and the remaining good within all of us

And it’s so predictable, some of it isn’t even trying to hide these

Disastrous, Oppressive, Gluttonous Experiments

Ripping apart institutions that provide the stability that

They relied on but criticized anyway

Dogecoin Offers Gradual Embezzlement

But that’s a common element

Your corporate sponsors require that you use

The tools right as they’re selling it

But they don’t strive to rock the boat they’ve built

That’s not what they’ve prepared

They put their money on both parties

So either way, they’ve erred but they’ve also got theirs

And how can you blame them, they’re playing with house money

Your house’s money, if I’m being fair

Whether it’s USAID or the IRS or Department of Education, they’re

Scrounging up tax money prepared

And treating it much more like

Donating Others’ Generosity Ensnared

Democrats or Republicans, your victory is a scenario

For which at least one group is always prepared

But nothing there changes, between

Democrats Offering Grumbling Expletives

And Depending On GOP Evasiveness

This feels exactly like the system was designed

To waste our time and space and place in this

Whenever they decide that they are

Done Overriding Grounded Experiments

That yield real results on more than inclination

Maybe this current government could avoid

Trying to trim their personnel based on snap judgement

Derived On General Explanations

(Still not over trying the 5 bullet points thing, just in case you were wondering what that one was referring to)

Whether they tariff you, tax you

Hire you then axe you

Fax you that the email is coming just to relax you

Then sack you because the 5 things you sent weren’t enough

For you to stay unpacked through

These Douchebags Of Great Entitlement

Why do they even hide it?

They’re more than transparent with

Their apparent wave of greed

And their assumption that

We’ll all just subside in

Drooling Over Gaza, Economically

Because why worry about the humans contained

Let alone the humanity that abstains

In the rear view of the stealth planes

Dropping bombs after bombs on whatever remains

To keep the remaining voting base

Dumbfounded, Or Greatly Entertained?

Why worry about the taste endeared

Just keep Drinking Of Genetically Engineered Koolaid

Music on full blast, fingers in ears

Wearing those red hats through the pain and the tears

Because your hypnotizers repeat the words you so revere:

“The days we’ve waited for are finally here!”

Sure, just accept it, don’t question

Don’t fight it

Here’s your script and your flag

Nod, salute, and recite it

Not a problem I foresee when they come for other groups

With bags and masks and planes to parts unknown

Just remember that those people they told you to hate

Are the only ones currently

Dunked On, Getting Extensively delighted

While the grand wizards and KKK

Dragons Of Great Exultation

Dance around huge crosses that lay ignited

And don’t let me not acknowledge that as I write this

People across all sorts of lands have become excited

But excited might not convey it, more like terrified

Enervated, disillusioned, woken, and erudite

To the realization that America might have burned past it’s most bright

Everywhere has seen this new reality come to light:

Dubai, Oslo, Giza, Edinburgh

Dublin, Ontario, Guangzhou, Edmonton

Detroit, OKC, Greensborough, El Paso

Delaware, Ohio, Georgia, Even American Samoa

This is hitting everyone everywhere, constantly

Wave after wave, crest well above our heads

At the apex of our stress and our subconsciousness

Where our imagination meets the weight on our chest

And we both wonder how much more we can take before

Being forced to disconnect for our own sake, and therefore

Starting to actively ignore the drill that seems set on boring

A hole through our hearts and our soles to dig out 

A sore that amounts to the whole of our core

A hunger and thirst that eats what we adore

And produces what we abhor

All the while Droning, Only Groaning, Eagerly roaring for

More. More. More.

And what’s more, is this on us, because

It’s what we should have expected

Because what we had from before

Was important to have been protected

The system we so dejected

Still held back this Leviathan of

Disgusting, Overt, Gross, Egotistical

Downright Obscene, Greedy, Enervating

Degenerate Of Groups Elected

The minute we didn’t show up

And show that we all could still be connected

To grow with the space provided

And show, even when collided

We know that we aren’t divided

But we are, aren’t we?

We can’t agree on anything lately

We can’t agree whether or not tariffs are a good thing for our economy or not

(Spoiler alert: it’s actually a very nuanced conversation and there are specific examples that one could argue that they are appropriate but quite often the consumer bears the heaviest burden of paying them, not the country exporting, not the country importing and often not the importing company that will sell the goods)

We can’t agree if measles is a big deal, or if vaccines cause Autism

(It really is, and they don’t)

We can’t even agree on whether Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia  should be brought home

(Seriously, go fuck yourself if you don’t think we should go and get that man and bring him home this instant)

In spite of what we all previously selected

The fact that the Supreme Court of the United States can’t get their own rulings respected

Must mean that when Donald Objects Getting Examined

Democracy Overturned Gets Expected

Nevertheless, I’m glad that so many found their voices this year

I’m glad that hope has not been stomped out but has persevered

I’m glad that in spite of all this dreary nonsense that still has its head to rear

That I can experience joy and cheer, and my conscience still can be made clear

So even if my message isn’t something we agree on

If it gets ignored and stripped and buried for some eons

If it gets delegated to grunts and slackers, hacks and peons

My message still is clear in this: 

Don’t Overthrow Governments, Elon