Acid Bath of Market Forces

Let's workshop this poem about how market-driven priorities, epitomized by Disney's populist parables, spread the prioritization of DEI image over MLK substance even onto hallowed grounds

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Acid Bath of Market Forces

That sunset shadow of optics
over character creeps, blackening
college even, from Disney

and its reboots for populist profit:
teachers chosen for color
like Cinderella for curves

(soon perhaps for “how
that thang squirt, how it smell”),
not for integrity or work ethic.

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