Stephen is a Staff Infection

Steven is a Staff Infection

Stephen is a staff infection
Stephen is an open wound
Stephen is no course correction
Stephen is a hope marooned

Stephen’s at an intersection
Stephen is an open book
Stephen is the vivisection
the Antichrist and Babadook

Xenophobic allegations
Nativistic racist hack
he talks about
the great replacement
Stephen hates
the brown and black

Stephen needs to take a hike
Stephen needs to go away
Stephen wants to raise the Reich
A dark return to glory days

Stephen is an ugly curse
Stephen doesn’t have a clue
Stephen hates the word diverse
Stephen turns the horse to glue

Xenophobic allegations
Nativistic racist hack
he talks about
the great replacement
Stephen hates
the brown and black

Stephen wants to crack some skulls
Stephen is a sad buffoon
Stephen’s face and eyes are dull
Stephen will be leaving soon

Stephen thinks that white is right
Stephen hates democracy
Stephen is an ugly sight
And a pillar of autocracy

Xenophobic allegations
Nativistic racist hack
he talks about
the great replacement
Stephen hates
the brown and black


If you haven’t had a chance yet, please check out my book, My Paper, My Words: Rantings from a Progressive Boomer and Peeved Parent, from Amazon. And if you feel moved to write a review of the book, on Amazon, or anywhere else, I’d be honored.

My Paper, My Words is a collection of essays, stories, and poems that reflect the challenges of a middle-class husband and father trying to navigate a rapidly changing political, religious, and technological landscape of post-911 America.

Also, check out my AI music project, Sapient Rain, a human–AI musical collaboration. Sapient Rain’s music blends political fire, surreal storytelling, and nostalgic autobiography, delivered through lyrics that read more like literary vignettes than conventional songcraft.

You can listen to Sapient Rain songs on Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music.