Dave Morrison
Resistance Poetry
Published in
2 min readAug 8, 2017

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Care to Join?

No,

thank you. Because if I

do, we might become a group,

and we might start to think

like a group, and if

more people join, we could become a large group,

and sometimes large groups

make you pay dues, and the

problem with that is

that the group could become

wealthy, and wealth becomes

power, and in my opinion, every group that

becomes large and wealthy and powerful sooner

or later starts to rot from the

inside out, starts to lose their

humanity, starts to get paranoid

and brutal, starts to lose their ability to

recognize bad choices and

repulsive behavior, and starts to think

that they are better than anyone else, and that

maybe some of the people in the group aren’t

good enough to be in the group, and start to think that

anyone not in the group isn’t worth a

damn, and they become this huge slobbering

thing that just eats and shits and eats and shits

and eats, and sooner or later this group becomes like

a drunken sumo wrestler, so that it either topples itself,

or is brought down by a smaller leaner more determined foe,

who then begins to eat and shit and eat and shit, and we

never learn anything

and it just goes on forever and makes you lose faith in

the human race, so no,

thanks,

I’d just as soon not

join.

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