New poem: "The Pettifoggers"

The Pettifoggers

 Centurions at the gates of life,

protectors of our common right,

long have we held you in high

esteem for your honorable deeds;

but how could we know of your

pettifoggery had we not crossed

the boundaries of your perfidy

and learned that what you guarded

was your own status, uncommon

though it be with all that you presume

to be? But when you went after an

honorable man, respected professor

and clinical psychologist, global

best-seller, world-class intellectual,

and esteemed scholar who stood

his ground for his democratic right

to speak his mind and threatened

to take away his licence to practice

his unblemished profession because

of what he said offended the foolish

woke, you betrayed our God-given

right to free thought and speech

and shamed our beloved nation in

the eyes of the free world.