A poem of Politically Correct Liberation

MENAGE À TREE

(originally posted in the Facebook group

“Human Rights for Every Tree—Check Your ‘Human Privilege’”)

 

If only I could be a tree,

Then indeed I could be free;

But alas I'm only human,

Which is really to be subhuman.

I would change, if only I could!

But what can I do but knock on wood?

But that would violate the rights of a tree,

And reduce it but to the level of me.

Oh what a wretched, disgusting fool I am

For having the temerity to be a human man!