Not everything is a conspiracy.
Sometimes bad people do bad things
and they get caught
and punished accordingly.
Sometimes things work
the way they’re supposed to
and you might not like it
but that’s how it is.
Before you call it a conspiracy
think on this:
maybe you are one of the bad people
Doesn’t feel so good, does it?
Like that time you submitted that poem
and it didn’t make the shortlist.
Maybe it’s not nepotism.
Maybe it’s not partisanship
or bias or what have you.
Maybe your poem
just wasn’t as good
as the others. See,
not everything is a conspiracy.
Sometimes things work just fine.
Joshua Seigal