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EDIT: There is an image of this poem on my Substack. Thank you.

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The Wokest

If you hate all that’s good with all that is in you

And your life consists of offenses against you

If your pronouns are made up, like zhe, zher, and zhem

Then you might be the wokest that ever has been.

If you are masked up and jabbed up and scream that J6

Was an act of sedition that can only be fixed

By punishing innocent women and men

Then you might be the wokest that ever has been.

If you listen to CBS, CNN, and the Times,

And swallow it all, every falsified line

If facts are your enemy and never your friend

Then you might be the wokest that ever has been.

If you yell, rant, and rave at patriotic displays

And hate our forefathers and spit on their graves

If you rewrite our history with a lying pen

Then you might be the wokest that ever has been.

If you burn down buildings and riot and steal

And believe that white privilege is actually real

If you hate all conservatives and authentic men

Then you might be the wokest that ever has been.

If you pout, whine, and cry if you are misgendered

Because people see that you’re just a pretender

Who just wants to wallow in pity and sin

Then you might be the wokest that ever has been.

You do all these things while pretending you’re free

You destroy things of beauty because you can’t even see

That you’re trapped in a mindset of envy and hate

Not knowing that woke doesn’t mean you’re awake.

Your only hope now is that God opens your eyes

For you to see that your life is consumed with lies

And learn to discern the truth from what’s fake

Only then will you be alive and awake.

— Janice Powell 2024

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Eric's avatar

Wasn't Obama awarded a Nobel Prize? Oh, there it is: “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Oh, dear God. Talk about big clown shoes. More illusory ballyhoo from the Establishment Big Top. Way to go, Bozo!....I mean, Barry.

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