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You’re listening to Pride Month on The Voice of Dog.
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This is Rob MacWolf,
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your fellow traveler,
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and Today we present a poem
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by HFE, who once won Artist of the Month back in high school in faer silversmithing class. You can
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find more of faer stories
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on HFEpro.com.
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Read by Ta’kom Ironhoof, the Equine Charmer.
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As loaded as the concept of the devil
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has become, and as many assumptions as it carries in conjunction with a topic such as Pride,
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either the sin or the event,
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it is worth remembering
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that the word itself originally only meant
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‘enemy.’ Please enjoy
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“The Devil Went Down to Georgia Pride”,
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a poem by HFE The devil went down to Georgia Pride
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wearing a collared shirt
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and tie waving a leather book older than my old man.
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He started screeching hellfire days were coming up fast upon us gays.
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The Queens and Daddies all rightly rolled their eyes.
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We were all polite as hell,
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each of our pups a damn angel.
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Yet he'd just keep on calling Stuart
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"ma'am". Stuart got a-squirming,
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the devil disrespecting
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this wholesome self-made man.
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Then finally, this black-haired goth
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got his temper mighty hot.
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He used his tongue to take the devil to church.
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"Hell is the world that you have made,
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laws and guns killing kids every day.
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Yet this is what Christ has moved your ass to do.
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Your pastors are
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doing the real grooming.
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Start running, sir,
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cuz the truth is looming.
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Sir, the only devil here at Pride is you!"
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The devil didn't even scrounge up a tear.
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Before he left, he said,
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"Now, son, listen here.
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You sound like you're speaking from a place of anger."
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It was a miracle that anger didn't become fighting.
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What with the devil acting high and mighty.
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Meanwhile, his churches are
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covering up all kinds of crimes and scams!
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And not even paying taxes to help their
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fellow folk. The devil's lucky he's popular cuz
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he'd never last a day at the misfits' table.
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He'd never last a day with his folks' suicide rate so high.
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His murderers getting off Scot-free cuz their swipe right
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panicked over them
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not having the bible they were expecting.
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When someone does evil in Jesus' name,
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My pastor taught me
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don't even wish 'em godspeed.
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That's how much our Holy Daddy hates 'em.
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So I hope someone else blesses that devil's heart
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cuz he's gonna need it
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when we tell 'im 'bout CRT.
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Bigotry never rides alone.
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So get yourself a goth twink,
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abortion access stickers,
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and some bricks. And in my Holy Daddy's name,
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bless your aim. Amen!
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This was “The Devil Went Down to Georgia Pride”
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by HFE, read for you by Ta’kon Ironhoof, the Equine
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Charmer. Happy Pride,
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and Thank you for listening to The Voice of Dog.
