You Call That a Choice?

Wise adults know the value

Of leaving foolish thoughts unexpressed.

Somehow that message has been lost

On rap singer Kanye West.

When mentioning the many years

Of suffering when the enslaved had to toil

And live in fear of whippings and lynchings

And rape here on American soil,

West has now made slavery

A topic to which he's given voice:

That it lasted for so many years

Means that it must have been a choice!

West claims that he's a freethinker.

Critics, of course, will disagree.

Anyone who knows the past

Would substitute "non" for "free."

If that's his desire for recognition,

He's found an odd way to gratify it.

What a way to promote an album!

Who the hell would want to buy it?

The singer, desperate for attention,

Is just like somebody else we know.

Money, fame, and power can turn you

Into a real so-and-so.

-by Bob B (5-7-18)