Not yet again (we’re aghast)
here comes the iconoclast:
No mere contrarian
but barbed barbarian
who steadfastly us lambast
Us Unwashed Masses huddled over-entertained & befuddled
From Reality divorced
what’s to hold on to in its place?
Fiction by elite endorsed
keeps being pounded in our face:
Their by rote repetitions
authoritatively sounding
arrogant admonitions
from morning til night us hounding
Crushing us Unwashed Masses huddled
over-entertained, tired befuddled
Today’s speech rarely corollary, mostly arbitrary
Of today’s speech be wary
seldom corollary
ill boding, often airy
hurriedly Hail Mary
Flimsy, fleeting such ‘bliss’
when facts, what’s fair we ignore
in collusion we kiss
Cease & desist, I implore!
Or I’ll wake with hangover hammering
from such ceaseless self-absorbed yammering
From being opinionated begging to be exonerated
A person has turned my doppelganger
thus an opinionated ‘haranguer’
stuck in hapless controversy
he prays ardently for mercy
as his every day has turned cliffhanger
When all is said & done way more has been said than done
At times has been avowed
my enthusiasm gallant
while sparingly endowed
with any useful talent
Hence I’ve barely begun
at age eighty-two
to get hoped-for things done
with some derring-do
But as by now glaringly way too late
I’ll keep playing to my ‘strength’, i.e. prate
Are we all doing our utmost not to boast?
Before sunrise he’d be found
like clockwork our rooster
on his fiefdom’s barnyard mound
as his own best booster
Perhaps wound tightly
but hens find him knightly
Comes across sprightly
takes a stance uprightly
Repeatedly he must crow
to hear his own voice inflection
In dedication aglow
offers, as it is, protection
Aren’t we all doing our utmost
while taking good care not to boast?
Do we all need one to be ‘with’ someone?
Aren’t we idling in the wings
until phone imposes
listlessly until it rings
then all else forecloses?
In hyper connected times
everywhere a free zone
where lights up & crisply chimes
our exacting smart phone
Long gone when dialog was between two
now it takes a three- or foursome to coo
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three- or foursome = 2 persons + 1 or 2 smartphones involved
On your ass in morass
If you’re part of the admass
lost, beguiled & propagandized
you’re on your ass in morass
unwittingly anesthetized
The MSM ain’t independent
rather the Elites’ co-defendant
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-admass = the part of society that is easily influenced by the mass media and advertising;
-MSM = main stream media
Failing to convince while merely making others wince
Take care not too rashly
pick your privy facts
later switch them brashly
like mere artifacts!
With your steady proclivity
for causing others to wince
you lack all objectivity
and keeps failing to convince
But so what? Your paramount choice
may just be to hear your own voice?
Frazzled by hooey on Life’s path screwy
On Life’s path screwy
held down in ennui
frazzled by hooey
Throw us a life buoy!
All the while mired in a massive flop
still dreaming of coming out on top