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MOBS

 

They group up

protected by numbers

they race around

hurling bricks

bottles

rocks

anything that hurts

or breaks

the idea is not to protest

the idea is to destroy

a savage inclination

a basic instinct

setting fires

burning businesses

looting stores

spraying graffiti

the ugly truth

they are the Barbarians at the gate

and no one stops them

because

we must not be mean

we must not judge

we do not want to be branded

haven't we seen this movie before

can't we all just get along?

 

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Comments

MortimerBlooming

Sun 31st May 2020 16:07

Violence begets more violence, what this is , is just the release of pressure, building up for decades and decades, violent revolution and the rule of instinct and passion has never gotten us something productive, but it is what the heart of a hundreds of thousands of people demand, a change of the shattering of a systematic oppression in place long before any of us were born,

Perhaps after change, we can have equity and peace, grudges are the most dangerous poison ever made,

Mortimer

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M.C. Newberry

Sun 31st May 2020 14:58

Topical and timely. The mob is always the sum total of aggressive
attitudes that seek the combined excuse to act in assorted interests,
plundering and destroying whilst offering nothing constructive along the way.

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