Trigger Warning

When I saw the hashtag "outcome" 

The implication was patently obvious

My protective cover had been blown

Retribution would be swift and furious

See, "outcome" was an everyday term

We used to sanitize unseemly acts

Like "extreme prejudice" as a synonym

For a near term recipient of  taps

I'd thought my identity fully obscured

My pseudonymous existence impervious

My internet activities couldn't be observed

By anyone malevolently curious

I tried to figure how I'd been unmasked

What clumsy folly I had committed

Then recalled I'd  signed on when asked 

To a petition, we'd unsuccessfully submitted

I'd been a participant in a literary group

Recently evicted from our preferred website

But bigwigs heading the corporate  F Troop

Wiped us away like bothersome dust mites

And when we'd asked their imperial indulgence

Petitioned for an execution stay

Imperiously, they ignored our correspondence

And went on their merry way

But I'm  sure they probably took offense

At our suggestion that they might have erred

Hostilities toward us would now commence

Soon we'd be protein for  bear and bird

But I flashed back to a childhood recollection

When I'd been caught hand on the cookie plate

Inescapable doom was my likely destination

Momentarily appeared that  was my fate

Began an uncontrollable 5-year-old's giggles

My formerly frowning  mom joined right in

Gave me a vanilla cake with rainbow sprinkles

Wiped excess chocolate from my chin

And as I recalled that past event

I thought, I ain't afraid of no highfaluting CEO

If my boots got surrounded by cement

Some ugly friends will come to say hello

And anyone whom they thought wanton

In the preservation of old Jimt

Might soon be pictured on a milk carton

With the legend: Have you seen me?

Reassured, I sat and wrote  a spell

Johnny Walker Blue came to assist

Thought, those expediting my  way to hell

May encounter guerillas in the mist

Postscript

Wife told me she wanted readers to be aware

That this was written just to thrill you

But now that you know how our enemies fare

Guess I'm going to have to kill you

    

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