For Charlie

So many people marching and waving,

waving pencils and pictures of pencils.

Millions and millions marching with pencils,

asserting their values, showing their power,

paying their respects.

But it's not what it seems.

say the sideline snipers,

the underminers,

the false flag wavers,

the pencil baiters, 

the Je Sais Fuck All-ers.

They're pencilled pawns,

just part of the plans 

of the Old Pretenders,

the liars and haters, 

the manipulators,

the plotters and schemers,

the money makers.

The bullets were blanks and, 

the dead, aren’t dead.

Say the sideline snipers,

the underminers,

the false flag wavers,

the pencil baiters, 

the Je Sais Fuck All-ers.

just look who's leading 

from the front line.

It's the Old Pretenders, the liars and haters.

It’s proof enough

What more do you need.

But it's not what it seems.

It's a trick of the camera, 

another pretence

to diminish the distance 

between them and 

the leaders behind them,

the pencil wavers, 

the movers and shakers,

the history makers.

Not so say the snipers,

the underminers,

know better than you-ers,

the Je Sais Fuck All-ers.

They say nothing of Gaza, 

those pencil wavers, 

or climate, or oil, or this or that.

And if they can't speak for all things,

it won't matter if, tired by the baiters

they go home and draw cats 

till their pencils are blunted 

and the spell has abated.

and smiles back on the faces

of the Old Pretenders,

the liars and haters, 

the leadership fakers,

the Je Sais Fuck All-ers

who love

to look at

pictures

of kitties.

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