“Mob Mentality” by Mary Jessie Sullivan
there is no I in war
no self in politics
faceless factions
more suitable units
for American bloodsport
more easily rallied
more readily drawn
into vehement battlelines
no you and me
nothing personal here
just the we and the they
the us and the them
stand in counterpoise
word-bullets fired
each volley a voice
disembodied
its speech is of no one
the audible argot of mobs
antithetical set-piece
of groupthink in wage of
distasteful philosophies
history honed to ambitious
impersonal shapes of
pure blind opposition
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