Tina Huang
A Scrutiny in Twain

The Misconstrued Misanthrope professes:
"The spiteful, but transitional non-sequitur,
Which had consequently, by happenstance, occurred,
Was not viewed apposite by the ungainly herd."

The Ostensible Orator assesses:
"The blind, abominable masses,
Who had impelled the obfuscating nature,
Of a creature for whom the world shan't cater,
By the stymieing of rhetoric passes-
Thus allowing no conclusive sasses,
They injudiciously compel things to fade."

The Misconstrued Misanthrope professes:
"Unable to settle for a lot so specious --
And wanting to see no stupidity for show,
I sought to keep morons from doing so.
By donning a mentality far from capricious,
I took the route that was beyond facetious.

The Ostensible Orator assesses:
"This perpetually brooding, ambivalent freak,
Had found the milieu now hopelessly bleak.
Thus the once pleasant, established façade,
Had vanished abruptly for an excursion abroad."

The Misconstrued Misanthrope professes:
I inflicted upon them such grievous woe,
'Till my behavior was deemed an inalienable "No-No"!!!"

The Ostensible Orator assesses:
'Who is this one so strange', they cried,
'Whose harrowing change mocks my pride?!'
'Twas that of a bombastically crass,
Sanctimonious ass,
Who reveled in slandering the sheep."

The Misconstrued Misanthrope professes:
"Although the public methods of defamation ceased,
The tacit demarcation was set for coerced peace.
Considering how they'd assumed that I had lost sight,
Vis-à-vis angst, I was their one true plight."

The Ostensible Orator assesses:
"The emergent heap of incessant diatribes,
Were easily described by those vilified.
So there was naught left to do but expel,
The rouser that made it all quite hell."

The Misconstrued Misanthrope professes:
"Aye, 'tis the curse of a misanthrope --
Conceding to decrees so immutable,
And imbued with sentiments uneschewable.
The paradoxically ostracized should read to cope,
Sensationalistic oeuvres -- LIKE THIS, while they mope."

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