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Daniel, or Danny, or Dud, or Dudley,
or Dupid, or Dumpy, or Duffus,
these were just some of the names
the assailant had gone by in his years
of junior high school abuse.
And after so many times of having
his chair pulled out from under him,
his name being used as a punching bag,
his books scorched, his lunch nabbed,
his eyes poked, his bike kicked,
his work laughed at, and finally,
his entire world shattered on the Internet
by a group of kids who thought it sport
to unleash a hell of insults around
an odd photograph they had manipulated,
he went one day armed to the teeth
with every weapon he could get his hands on.
Who's laughing now, Bitch?
Horrible! This lonely, twisted, angry
little fuck killed my boy because he
could not stand a little teasing.
Kids will be kids!
Macroeconomics?
Occupy this, Bitch.
runningturtle87
or Dupid, or Dumpy, or Duffus,
these were just some of the names
the assailant had gone by in his years
of junior high school abuse.
And after so many times of having
his chair pulled out from under him,
his name being used as a punching bag,
his books scorched, his lunch nabbed,
his eyes poked, his bike kicked,
his work laughed at, and finally,
his entire world shattered on the Internet
by a group of kids who thought it sport
to unleash a hell of insults around
an odd photograph they had manipulated,
he went one day armed to the teeth
with every weapon he could get his hands on.
Who's laughing now, Bitch?
Horrible! This lonely, twisted, angry
little fuck killed my boy because he
could not stand a little teasing.
Kids will be kids!
Macroeconomics?
Occupy this, Bitch.
runningturtle87
Published 13th Aug 2012
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Anonymous
13th Aug 2012 4:25pm
What a wonderful poem about school bullying.
Unfortunately the victim is discounted as being "too sensitive". Many victims of bullying commit suicide. Others become hermits or overachievers. Unfortunately many victims become killers. There was a case in Ottawa about a bus driver with an impediment of some kind. He was bullied to the point he went nuts and killed some of the people he worked with. I would wager that many of the people who crack and become loathsome killers were first bullied or faced constant microinequalities that were like pin-pricks building up to a great wound in the mind. Then along came one trauma which was the tipping point.
Brilliant poem - concise and complete.
Unfortunately the victim is discounted as being "too sensitive". Many victims of bullying commit suicide. Others become hermits or overachievers. Unfortunately many victims become killers. There was a case in Ottawa about a bus driver with an impediment of some kind. He was bullied to the point he went nuts and killed some of the people he worked with. I would wager that many of the people who crack and become loathsome killers were first bullied or faced constant microinequalities that were like pin-pricks building up to a great wound in the mind. Then along came one trauma which was the tipping point.
Brilliant poem - concise and complete.
13th Aug 2012 5:27pm
Thank you for insightful extensions, Kitty. The world of the abused is often swept under the rug by those who are the perpetrators of the abuses. They cannot understand what the squealing is all about and yet they are often the first ones to scream foul when they are the receivers. I often wonder where their outrage was when they were the ones doing the offending.......there is something there, really.
