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The They


The war on "the" has begun
A determiner small and neat
A label rather, a word stabbing stick
Causes much of The offense to The meek

The poor, The mentally ill
The criminals, The underachievers
The month of April, The pill
The French, The French fries, The believers

The world… sorry… “World People” 
The best, The rest, The this, The that
The is now a bad insensitive word
We must avoid it like The turd

Tossed over with The corpses of other dead words
The They, The grammar police have conferred
The question is The answer is The condemned
The End.
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