Simplify Yourself In These Ways
My slow metamorphosis into Walt Whitman continues unabated.
Oh, friend
_ _ If you have never heeded me before
_ _ _ _ I beg you
_ _ _ _ _ _ Heed me now
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Though I must break your heart
This world is not built to be perceived
_ _ It is more complicated and simple than it needs be for your interaction
_ _ _ _ People will do the worst and best things imaginable for reasons you'll never comprehend
_ _ _ _ _ _ You want them to be discernible and measurable
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Because they must be
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Mustn't they?
Please
_ _ Simplify yourself in these ways
_ _ _ _ Though you hate to believe you can be simplified in these ways
_ _ _ _ If a good excuse will allow you to do a bad thing
_ _ _ _ _ _ So too will a bad excuse
_ _ _ _ If you can justify it here
_ _ _ _ _ _ You will justify it there
_ _ _ _ You are not so complicated that a door
_ _ _ _ _ _ Once opened
_ _ _ _ _ _ Will not welcome you as you cross the threshold
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Again and again
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ On a whim
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ On a tantrum
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ On the most righteous crusade the world has ever seen
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ On the greatest atrocity humanity has ever suffered
_ _ There is great evil in this world
_ _ _ _ No evil will ever justify what you want to be justified
_ _ _ _ _ _ Though you hate to believe it will not be justified
_ _ _ _ _ _ They can be stopped with less
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ An unmitigated deconstruction
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A punch to their stupid smug prick face on camera
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A reclassification on Wikipedia
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ And they are done
_ _ _ _ _ _ Many will stoke your animus
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Every chemical in your brain will bid you to act
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You found one
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ And you will be wrong
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You must stop them
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ And you will be wrong
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Make of them pariah
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ And you will be wrong
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Cast them out
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ And you will be wrong
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Isolate them
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ And you will be wrong
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Attack them
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ And you will be wrong
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Hurt them
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ And you will be wrong
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Destroy them
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ And you will be wrong
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Kill them
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ And you will be wrong
_ _ _ _ There are those who indisputably need to be stopped
_ _ _ _ _ _ For some
_ _ _ _ _ _ A few
_ _ _ _ _ _ So very few
_ _ _ _ _ _ Fewer than you are thinking even at this moment
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ They have designed and crafted their position
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ That all methods
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Save death
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Are all-but-impotent
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Though they still do not deserve death
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Stopping them from inflicting harm is what matters
_ _ _ _ _ _ But once the evil is stopped
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Through death or otherwise
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ There is no more to do
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ There is no justice in suffering
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ There is no compensation in cruelty
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You want that cruelty
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You crave that suffering
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You are wrong
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ It does not matter
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Even a little
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ How extreme you think this case to be
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ To desire suffering
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You are wrong
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ To desire cruelty
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You are wrong
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ To believe in retribution
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You are wrong
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ That it will restore anything
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You are wrong
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ That it will end
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You are wrong
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Pick up that cruelty
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ That suffering
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Discard it
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Though you hate to discard it
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ It has no place in a just world
_ _ _ _ This world must
_ _ _ _ _ _ Eventually
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Be a just world
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Mustn't it?
_ _ Do not be the reason it is not
_ _ _ _ Yet