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Mike Essig
Other Voices
Published in
1 min readFeb 14, 2017
Ang Tambayan

They are ubiquitous as red, white and blue.
Everybody’s entitled to them.
Everybody has many, all insightful.
Everybody feels compelled to share them.
Frankly, I don’t care what you think
about Trump, Obamacare, refugees, Syria,
the patriarchy, pumpkins or the Patriots.
But go ahead and fill me in. I know you will.
I will smile politely, as I always do,
while imagining twenty ways to murder you.

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Mike Essig
Other Voices

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.