Refuse to take it! Change the paradigm!
Explode exclusion! Stretch that simple 'or'
The height and length and breadth of space and time!
If 'do or die,' I'll pick another door,
Inveigle other options, something more!
The universe is massive, so complex,
To say the choice is two and not a store
Upsets the conscious mind and swamps its decks!

Perhaps I'll 'do' and also 'die.' A crime?
Or stationary, simply live, ignore
Commands that ring an arbitrary chime.
I'll back away, investigate, explore,
Expand the walls, or burrow through the floor!
Gradation's vital, grays that warp and flex
The black and white. To see but still deplore
Upsets the conscious mind and swamps its decks!

Except, of course, philosophy sublime
Collides with brick and mortar, falls before
The iron fist of social swill and slime.
To talk degrees and shades will raise a roar,
Collect a mob, and leave you scratched and sore.
In politics or fashion, beer or sex,
It's 'this or that' despite the way the war
Upsets the conscious mind and swamps its decks.

So 'do or die.' It holds the very core
Of human nature, all it saves and wrecks.
Implicit bias reigns from shore to shore,
Upsets the conscious mind and swamps its decks...