> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.hawkword.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Loyal Opposition
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/loyal-opposition/
- Published: 2024-03-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: To kill a mockingbird is easy if scared compliance is your goal, Though it might leave you rather queasy, at least you'll feel you're in control, and at the last you'll have some quiet. Don't bother argue or deny it...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

To kill a mockingbird is easy  
if scared compliance is your goal,  
Though it might leave you rather queasy,  
at least you'll feel you're in control,  
and at the last you'll have some quiet.  
Don't bother argue or deny it:  
you'd rather occupy your throne  
without the constant mocking tone  
of stubborn, dogged opposition  
that's questioning your every move  
as though you have a thing to prove,  
or merit any competition.  
But you're forgetting, as you rule,  
that every king still needs his fool.