Vanity Inoculation Poem by Kevin Patrick

Peirce history,
Feel the pierce hemorrhaging
Rupture the structures
Of despotic institutions
Contracting contusions
From white savior delusions
Apply the shackles to the legacies
Of colonial zealotries


Raze the statues
Of great men
And bury them
In museums
Check the placard
With a black mark
And condemn them
With shame
Hang their glories
With the story
So we know whose to blame
You can't bury a past
Where weeds of hate
Are now stained


Rip the throat of traditions
With iron fist petitions
Burn down your closets
And lay out your carcasses
Pin the tail to the mirror
Of your next moving target
Or read this vitriol
In the next martyrs Manuel


Our X ray vision
feeds our indignation
a punch to forefathers
in their ultraviolet eye sockets
Vaccination with logic
Cures the mind for psychotics
Inoculate your hubris
That's viral psychopathic
And swallow your pride
If your halfway empathic


Smash out the lights
Of your self-centered religion
Or taste the ash
As a relic of perdition