Unauthorized To Re-Write Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

An intolerance of nonsense,
Becomes scrutinized and opposed...
By those who accuse the ones,
Of making attempts to eliminate...
A way of life,
Less confused by delusion.
And unauthorized to re-write...
A script prepared,
That entices enlightenment...
The process begins,
With a sweetening up...
Of the truth of it.
And stripping away to replace,
A reality found not appropriate.

'In 'your' script,
Too many contradictions...
Exist in it.
You depict most relationships,
As being racist.'

-Oh? And...they are? -

'Our research has discovered,
A society so color blind...
On a daily basis,
More people are wishing to find...
Others wanting to skip,
Down that yellow brick road.
Glistening to expose it,
Covered in gold.'

-Oh? And, at the end what happens? -

'Not the unending of greed.
Conflict and selfishness...
You have written.
By sick driven minds to permit.
That interpretation is fiction.
And doesn't represent who we are,
On bit.
We are more humanitarian than that.
You would have us depicted,
As barbarians at the gates...
Of a perpetual 'hell'.'

-Hmmm...
Where were you when I sought,
A title? -