The Peacock

Arina Banks
The Peacock Arina Banks is a writer from Virginia. Her artistic influences include many contemporary novels, films, and works of art. She describes her writing as realistic fiction with sarcastic undertones.

“But there is one animal more proud,
More pompous, mean, and rude.
It lives on social media.
It has an attitude.”

         

The peacock thinks it rules the world
when it puts its feathers up,
and everybody who walks by
can’t help but turn their eyes.

         
But when it puts its feathers down,
it’s pompous, rude, and mean.
It thinks the other animals
all worship at its feet.

         
But there is one animal more proud,
More pompous, mean, and rude.
It lives on social media.
It has an attitude.

            
The Trumpy thinks it rules the world
when it flips its blond hair up,
and everybody who walks by
can’t help but turn their eyes.

             
But when it flips its blond hair down,
it’s pompous, rude, and mean.
It thinks the other candidates
all worship at its feet.

 

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