The Reaction

The moment revealed an explosion of hate
They saw the young boy and began to berate
Some of the crowd said, “He’s obviously mad!”
Others more loudly, “You bounder, you cad!”
Everyone there felt the strong need to mock
If they’d had their way, the boy’d get a sock.
It began as a low key but murderous sneer,
Which rose, like a storm to a unified jeer.
Not one of the crowd failed to pin with a stare
The tempest increased when they started to swear
Out came the crudest and rudest of oaths
All the boy’d said was, “The Emperor’s no clothes”