my very woke friend

my very woke

friend

wants to save the whales,

the turtle eggs,

the unborn salamanders,

but

abort the babies,

she wants to

have

the confused kids

go under

surgery to alter

their sex.

snip, cut, fill and form

like silly putty

the children.

everyone gets a trophy

in her world.

an A for effort.

a medal

for last place.

everyone's a winner.

she wants to burn the books

of Mark Twain.

tear down the statues.

rewrite history,

give every street a new name.

she wants to hand out

needles to

the drug addicts,

decriminalize

crime.

release the prisoners,

let them

loot and rob. 

run wild in the streets,

burn the city

in an angry mob. 

they

just weren't hugged

enough

when they were children

she says.

and she's a therapist.

God help us all.