Miss Wildfire
Ode to the unfluencer
Have you read any of her work I’m telling you it’s great She’s smart and she’s hilarious And nobody escapes.
Not the racists Or the presidents Not the landlords Or the cops And if you never liked philosophy She'll make the penny drop.
She doesn't pull her punches Or overstate her case She shines her knowing light On all social malaise The capitalists quiver She could make the devil shiver No fast-talking ivy leaguer Can sell her down the river.
She's smarter than the lot of them Without the airs and graces And if your brain is feeling immobile Her pen will take you places.
I'll read her when I'm idling I'll read to laugh I'll read to learn Her insight gets so hot sometimes I worry I might get burned.
I dream I wish I fool myself I light-headedly aspire That one day I will write as well As Jessica Wildfire.
