Avoid Orange

To begin with: avoid Orange,

Start with the obvious, step away from the caps lock,

Capitals are not your URGENT THOUGHTS.

Avoid orange.

Pronounce countries carefully.

Do not add extra syllables,

Or invent new continents mid-rant.

If unsure, say nothing.

Silence is underrated.

Avoid orange.

Be wary of misogyny.

The minor kind pretends to be banter.

The major kind pretends to be truth.

Both rot the floorboards quietly, until the house collapses

And a woman gets the blame for it. OBVIOUSLY

Avoid orange.

Islands beginning with E, best left alone.

Don’t ask why. Just nod, smile,

and back away from the map.

Do not watch Home Alone 2.

Golf can be a trigger

Avoid orange.

If rage feels righteous,

If mockery feels like policy,

If volume starts to masquerade as strength,

Check yourself. Hydrate. (But not in that weird two-handed way)

Avoid orange.

Greenland is not negotiable.

If you feel the urge to acquire it,

Lie down until the feeling passes.

Avoid orange

High-waisted trousers are a choice.

Long red ties are a decision.

Together they create a silhouette of a clown,

If your outfit starts voting before you do: undress.

Red caps are the first symptom

Avoid Orange

Gold is not a personality.

It does not make things stronger, wiser, or more presidential.

It just reflects light back at itself,

Until no one in the room can see straight.

Stop gilding things.

If everything shines, nothing is valuable.

Avoid orange.

Fight racism in all its disguises:

The vintage kind, dusted with “just joking,”

The casual kind, that slips out at dinner,

The kind that confuses cruelty for honesty,

The loud, sweaty kind that needs an enemy to feel tall,

And the I.C.E cold kind, violent and inexcusable

For the love of God (not their version of God), avoid orange.

Most of all, fight the racism of the insecure narcissist,

The version that punches down to feel up,

That invents hierarchies to explain mediocrity,

That mistakes dominance for worth and volume for identity.

You Musk avoid orange.

If your pride depends on someone else being less,

You have none.

If your strength requires an audience of scapegoats,

You are weak.

No slogan fixes that.

Don’t J.D Vance towards orange. Avoid orange.

If you can keep your head,

When headlines are losing theirs,

If you can argue without waving tiny hands,

Mock without dehumanising,

Read a fact without needing it

to hurt someone,

If you can resist the CAPS,

The tie,

The gold,

The grievance,

Young girls,

The urge to buy islands,

Rewrite maps,

Or shout history backwards,

If you can spot racism, without rehearsing it,

Call it out. without becoming it,

Leave stereotypes, where they belong,

If you can do all this

and still sleep, still laugh,

and still spell countries correctly,

then congratulations:

You will not suffer from the entirely invented,

deeply overused, medically unsound condition

known as: Trump Derangement Syndrome.

For f**ks’ sake, please just avoid orange.