%) Rather than lead-by-nose acolyte prefer to stand on my own upright

They’re selling us the chimerical
offering head-in-sand snugness
no wonder I’m anti-clerical
intolerable their smugness

Trying to steer us out on their dance
they tolerate no rejection
show arrogance from first to last glance
cannot fathom our rejection

Rather than lead-by-nose acolyte
prefer to stand on my own upright