American Anthropology

First-Person Shooter

by Lindsey Eck

First-person shooter
GTA mean
A whole world of warcraft
Brought to life from a screen
The incel at last
Becomes a U.S. Marine
One last chance
To do something obscene

First-person shooter
Gonna git him some looters
Wannabe Ranger
Got turned down by recruiters
He’s 4chan commissioned
8chan approved
First-person shooter
Time to make his big move

New Year’s in the Quarter
Small-town Fourth of July
Country concert in Vegas
All you normies must die
It might be for Allah
The Führer or Christ
This whole damn crowd
Gonna be sacrificed

To the first-person shooter
And his miserable tutors
Wannabe Chad
Got rejected at Hooters
His chest decorated
With Crusader tattoos
First-person shooter
Knows we’re all gonna lose

He never had a summer of love
He’s freezing in the winter of blood

First-person shooter
No longer a neuter
Mad manifesto
On his phone or computer
It might be for freedom
Or nothing at all
First-person shooter
Has to answer the call

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