This is, unfortunately, a too-familiar scenario. We are often convenient scapegoats for others who are on the receiving end of questions or blame.
Oh, no one wants to be a goat. One is vulnerable prey. But there’s a tool that a goat has that can be a nuisance to predators – a pair of horns that it can use to defend itself.
How does the scapegoat use those horns? Being aware of the situation, being calm yet assertive, and simply caring for oneself is the way to go.
Enjoy these senryus.
Unknowing scapegoat
Open and vulnerable
A delicacy
Knowing scapegoat
Its horns ready to lock with
Predators so sly
Knowing scapegoat
Horns steady and assertive
Jab at the unjust
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