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Track 5) Red Ribbon Wearers

from My Life as a Dancing Rat by Jonathan Rome

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lyrics

Hypocrites hide in hollowed, hateful hideaways.
Hibernating from judgement,
Avoiding the limelight,
‘Til eavesdropping ears hear
Opportunities to shine.


So, while Catholic priests
Preach “Celibacy or Doom”,
There’s a lot more than confessions
In the reconciliation room.
Because pedo priests feast
On the wallets of the renewed.
It’s screwed.


Like,
Locker room talk
Conflicts on stage,
Walk.
Skin Orange.
Abhorrent,
Freedom on the chopping block.
Can’t immigrate.
Emancipate
Them all.
Wall
Protect the gate.
Point and state.
Set things straight.
Once more America
WILL BE GREAT!


There’s a student speaker,
Types on Twitter.
“Don’t do Drugs”
Words of Wisdom.
Wears red ribbon.
Lies bigger.
‘Til he’s downing
Hard liquor.
Drivin’ on the highway quicker.
CRASH
BREAK
Off the meter.
Five teens dead,
No more future.
Shaking hands
With the Grimm Reaper.


It’s critical
To understand
The power we man
In this digital
Age.
I reached the pinnacle
Of cynical,
When the stereotypical
Behavior became “hypocritical.”
And I became one of them.
A ribbon wearing,
Orange skinned,
Man whose sinned
As I preach the wisdom
I find in my dimmed mind.
I swear,
As far as it goes,
My nose
Could beat Pinnochio’s.
I throw
My words to the wind,
Hoping they’ll land somewhere they belong.
But until then, I’ll be hiding in the throng.
In hollowed, hateful hideaways.
Hibernating from judgement,
Avoiding the limelight,
‘Til my eavesdropping ears hear
An opportunity to shine.

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from My Life as a Dancing Rat, released November 11, 2016

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Johnny Rome Salinas, California

Poet, FIlmmaker, Author, Editor, Actor, Screen/Play writer, and Dancing Rat... If I can do anything being alive for 16 years, you can too.

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