You Have Opted In

For the outrage contest,

but will you win?

The competition's thin

not due to magnitude

of feeling but the stick-

to-it-iveness versus the trend

toward forgiveness and paired

amnesia. 

You need more than

a gnat's span of attention, 

and the ability to withstand 

the tension spurred by belief whole-

heartedly in the power of one 

lame enemy you mistake for

some god-forsaken god.