Poor Man's Whatever
You shove yourself down our collective throats and I have had enough
I am so sick to death of you and I am throwing up with disgust
Is there anything that you won't get involved with?
First it was acting and now, oh what a surprise, politics
You act like you are a man of the people but I know this isn't true
I know this is an act because when nobody was around I saw the real you
You were always so quick to throw people under the bus
For those who you don't think are on your level, you show your true disgust
I must admit one thing, you are a great actor
But this is more in real life then when you were on stage playing a character
You know how to sell yourself and that is your greatest gift
But there is no amount of money for you that I would ever give
You are not breaking any new ground with anything that you say or do
This has already been done by people who made a much bigger impact than you
You are just repeating the same rhetoric but just on a much smaller scale
You are a big fish is a small pond that is mostly inhabited by fresh water snails
You are a Poor Man's Whatever
You are always quick with a comment but is it really that clever?
Or are you just telling people what they want to hear?
One thing I knowis that you are a phony and that has always been crystal clear
You are a Poor Man's Whatever
You are always throwing yourself into yet another endeavor
Why isn't the world sick of you yet?
I was already sick of you on the first day we met
From Too Much Unwanted Noise
Copyright 2019, Resisting Distress Publishing
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Highly personal attack on specific individual's hypocrisy and phoniness.
Dense accumulation of accusations, examples, and rhetorical questions throughout.
Intensely negative: disgust, contempt, rejection dominate entire poem.
Explosive, accusatory tone with forceful declarations and verbal intensity.
Approximately 31-35 lines; substantial extended meditation on subject.
Multiple similes, metaphors (big fish, poor man's whatever), vivid imagery.
Primarily lyric voice with direct address; some narrative moments of witnessed behavior.
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