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Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn

March 27, 2013
By Anonymous

Chaos is the only thing fair in the world.
I'm an agent of chaos.
All I did was prove what He did
That madness is like gravity… all it needs is a little push
Well I was pushed! And pulled!
And people think I’m the villain.

The Joker is real
I am real.
And people need to learn that The Batman won’t be there to save them!
When you devote your life to someone, you don't have anything else.
You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength.
College graduate school dropout, what do I have?

I have movie marathons to watch my idol
My hair is red and all I’m missing is a nurse's outfit,
It got put on back order.
Eyes looking so dead to you,
Nudging me when the Judge walks in
I won't stand up even when told.
I’m not high on drugs. I’m high off the thrill! The fun!
Planning something out for months
To have it go perfectly as planned

Nobody else was going to say it
You can't rely on anybody these days, you gotta do everything yourself, don't we?
Somebody had to let them know!
They couldn't just go on believing in what isn't real
There will never be a Batman!
But there will always be a Joker!
There will always be me!

I just saved them, brought them into the light
All I did was prove a point… Why so serious?
I just showed them a new magic trick.
I made seventy people disappear!

Just because I opened your eyes to a world
You wanted to leave behind.
I am not the evil one.
Just the smart one, the realistic one.

All I can do is say you're welcome
For bringing you away from the Dark Knight
It’s the day that the red dawn rises.
And I couldn't have done this without you…
You... you... complete me.


The author's comments:
I wrote this poem after the Joker shooting in Colorado. The movie "The Dark Knight" really resonated with me for various reasons, and I felt I had a duty to write about this event. This is a persona poem, so I stepped inside the shoes of the shooter. This has lines from the movie "The Dark Knight".

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