ballad of the dying man

• naturally the dying man wonders to himself:
  has commentary been more lucid than anybody else?
  and had he successfully beaten back the rising tide
  of idiots, dilettantes, and fools
  on his watch while he was alive
  lord, just a little more time
  
  oh, in no time at all
  this'll be the distant past, ooh
  
  so says the dying man once i'm in the box
  just think of all the overrated hacks running amok
  and all of the pretentious, ignorant voices that will go unchecked
  the homophobes, hipsters, and one percent
  the false feminists he'd managed to detect
  oh, who will critique them once he's left?
  
  oh, in no time at all
  this'll be the distant past
  
  what he'd give for one more day to rate and analyze
  the world made in his image as of yet to realize
  what a mess to leave behind
  
  eventually the dying man takes his final breath
  but first checks his news feed to see what he's 'bout to miss
  and it occurs to him a little late in the game
  we leave as clueless as we came
  from rented heavens to the shadows in the cave
  we'll all be wrong someday