A satirical lyrical inversion of My Prerogative, reframing autonomy without accountability as performance, denial, and spectacle. When power insists on being left alone, language bends to justify it. This is that bend, set to a familiar rhythm.
Tag Archives: accountability
Survey Says
A meditation on spectacle—how modern entertainment reframes suffering as competition, humiliation as content, and moral distance as victory. From primetime sports to reality television, the poem interrogates the quiet bargain we make as viewers: validation purchased at the expense of someone else’s disgrace. What begins as observation ends as implication, leaving the audience to sit with an uncomfortable truth—the show only works because we keep showing up.
Mannino Acid 