Cancer Culture

By Mark Antony Rossi

A literary response to the Cancel Culture. The very things people fear the most in society -- Prejudice and Oppression -- are major components in the cancel culture craze that is sweeping the corporate, college and general American community. Words taken from decades ago are now used to frame a person's character and help destroy careers and lives. But as this book "Cancer Culture" rightly points out we must stand up and fight against this mindless maniacal prescription for tolerance. The act of "canceling" people is intolerant, sexist, racist, homophobic and can border on unethical or immoral sentiments. Respect and Understanding takes communication, it takes work, and it takes time. None can be acheived with moronic social shortcuts that harm people and ruin any fair chance of fellowship and freedom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Soma Publishing
• Release date: Mar 30, 2021

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Cancer Culture

Mark Antony Rossi

Copyright © 2021

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Soma Publishing 1st Electronic Edition

Atlanta - Miami

When everyone is a victim,

No one is a villain.

Cancelled Dude, Circa 2020

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Cancel No More

A Moment of Clarity

Argue with Angels

Broke My Ass on a Memory

Cartography as Philosophy

Dead Last Delaware

Deleting the Past is Dumb

Emotional Acupuncture

Fence Sitters and My Big Can of Kerosene

Fertile Seeds of Fate

Fifth Columnists

Forgotten Medicine

Friends in Know Places

Fury Found Me Wanting

Going Nowhere

Granite and Grace (inspired by Mike Anders)

I Fight Alone

I Left My Lunch by the Umbrella

I Think, Therefore, I’m an Outsider

I Won’t Let You Block the Sun

Integrity Doesn’t Belong in a Cloud

Interference

Interloper

Ishmael Needs a Girlfriend

Jerusalem (City of Tears)

Lion City Lass

Lost My Love at the Louvre

Made in China

Magenta

Mosaic of a Forgotten Messiah

Middle Roadkill

Mona and Michel

Mortal Coil of My Republic

Mudflap Blinders

NeuroLyrical Quandries

Orca Down

Rationale for Revolt (Poem for Cancel Culture)

Rebel with Regard

Refract

Refuse Tomorrow

Rights and Rulers

Question the Quiet

Splitting Hairs by Splitting Heads

Soma and the Unknowing Slave

Soul Custodian

Spirit of ‘76

Static

Strategic Reconnaissance – Seventy-One

Stay (Away)

The Doers

Thinner Dinner

The Children Will Eat

The Spirit of America

The Winter of My Incontinence

This Paradise Lost

This Way to Zion

Toads in the Commode

Trim

Unimportant Things

Weather and Worms

When in Rome

Whipped (Metaphor for America, 2021)

When I Went to War

Essays:

Hell is History Written by the Sinners

When Protesting Muddies the Message

A More Perfect Union

Where’s National Reconciliation

How Far Jerusalem (Letter to My Liberal Jewish Friends)

China is Growing (Like a Weed)

Lessons for Developed Countries About a Free Press

Interview: Art, Society and the Cancel Culture

About the Author

About the Publisher

INTRODUCTION:

CANCEL NO MORE

Throughout the days of Soviet Russia, millions fell out of favor with the Communist Party and were deleted out of existence by removing their image from photographs and destroying proof of life documents.

Shortly after this system-wide erasure these purged souls were either in shot dead or sent to the Gulag labor camps located in the frozen tundra of Siberia. Cancellation took place. Sentences carried out to the extreme not for murder, rape or terrorism but for thought crimes, careless whispers and association with impure company.

America is on the eve of such persecution. Every disagreement contains a racist accusation. Cartoons are deemed rape-mongering. Plastic toys are gender-neutered. Pancake syrup guilty of Confederate aspirations. A box of rice ridiculed for minstrel-like connotations. Separate but equal now promoted as a cultural value.

When Dr. Seuss’ books are banned while allowing Hitler’s Mein Kampf to remain unchallenged it is a sure sign we are not taking this perverted movement serious enough. Only by writing, talking and thinking against this massive assault on common sense do average citizens have a chance to take back the reigns of a society running amok by confusing social justice with ideological purity tests.

My hope is this book of verse and essays will give readers something to think about and maybe at times laugh about in the sincerest belief that we stand up for freedom before it is taken away right before our eyes. It happened in Russia. It happened in Germany. It happened in Cambodia. Don’t let it happen in America.

A MOMENT OF CLARITY

If

art

is

everything

it is nothing

and

picasso

is just another

punk

on the road

to

ruinous

rebellion

ARGUE WITH ANGELS

Where did my mother go

That night I fell into fever

I lost her face

I lost the way

This