Oh Mr King

Authors Note: This poem is not belittling the true and valid achievements of Martin Luther King Jr and the civil rights struggle. However it looks at the man. A man with an almost saintly status, some one we are not meant to criticise. Some may find this offensive that is not the intention. The intention is to show human beings as being just human beings

Oh Mr King

Oh Mr King!
Mr Martin Luther King junior
You were a hero if mine
A man of truth and wisdom
A man of peace and integrity
A Reverend and a Doctor
The Rev. Martin Luther King M.D.
But still: A man of the people

Oh Mr King!
Why when communism was
Viewed as the enemy
Did you surround yourself
With communist activists
A political system famous
For being persecutors and
Killers of the religious

Oh Mr King!
Were you really a Reverend?
Were you really a Doctor?
Your Doctorate Thesis shows
45% of your first paper
And 21% of your second paper
Was plagiarised, copied, stolen
Counterfeit, fraudulent
If anyone else their qualifications
Would have been rescinded


Oh Mr King!
Who could forget the
“I have a dream” speech
But who knew chunks of it
Were plagiarised, copied, stolen
Counterfeit, fraudulent
I don’t disagree with the speech
But I thought it was all your own

Oh Mr King
What other dreams did you dream?
It seems some of them might have been wet
How many prostitutes did you hire?
How many affairs did you really have?
How many sex parties did you attend?
Where were you wife and children?
Where were you when your wife listened
To the sex tape of you she was sent
What excuses did you give; if any?

Oh Mr King
Icon and civil rights campaigner
Advocate of non-violent struggle
Proponent of civil disobedience
Plagiariser, counterfeiter,
Not a Reverend, not a Doctor
A womaniser, a misogynist
A sexual predator
A poor excuse for a husband
A pure excuse for a father

Oh Mr King
You were just
A flawed
Human
After all