Sonnet 61 (I guess this would be called the 'lynch mob' mentality)

Remember how #RonSilliman used to

Try to “cow” those younger in the 90s

Unlike his cronies back in the 60s

Who were more socialist than me, thou, you?

We muttured in wings, “his generation

Of white self-proclaimed radical poets

Helped spur backlash against Black Arts griots,”

But let them control the conversation

Trying to defend ourselves in their terms,

Learn their language, all the better to curse

In it, smuggling truths in their Trojan hearse.

I failed, now hope to help the tables turn

As he’s caught defending old time black face

Of ghost world plagiarist friend-in-high-Place

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So I got swept back into what used to be called "the poetry wars"