Why Chromosome

by Patrick Johnston

Men That Dress Like David Attenborough

I speak my calm and authoritative pale blue shirt words.

My half-loose beige pants are serious yet approachable.

My light tan suede ankle boots are grounded in realism.

Now let us begin. I know things that you don’t know.

With that in mind, let’s look closely at some termites.

Welcome to the Manosphere

You better get some rest

Let’s go

You should drink a glass of water

Let’s go

I think you should sit down

Let’s go

This town isn’t big enough for the both of us

Let’s go

It’s time to haul ass

We better go

Sit down and relax

Let’s go

Thus Spake Tate Peterson

“Not all men” fall frozen like

Labrador puppy ragged islands

Bring me your tired, your hungry,

Your memes, I’ll piss on them

That’s what the Statutes of Limerance says

Your “poor me, too” masses?

Just take them

Out the back and club them to death

Have done with it

Nobody wants to be a doctor

Or a lawyer

Or anything

They just want to peddle influence

On the dirty boulevard

(I wanna fly

fly

fly

I wanna fly away)

BIO: Patrick Johnston is an Anglo-Australian writer and former professor of psychology and neuroscience. His work appears in The Louisville Review, Eastern Iowa Review, Thin Air Magazine, and Litro Magazine USA, among others, and has received a Pushcart Prize nomination. He is the author of the novel The Gaps Between the Stories. dr-patrick-johnston.com