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Don’t act deranged! What Climate Change?!

Winter rages bleak & cold
then merely click ‘unfriend’!
For Spring soon to burgeon bold
just click ‘like’ to impend!

Climate change talk we won’t brook
cannot by hoodwinked eye be seen
It lacks button on Facebook
anywhere in front of our screen!

What’s Fantasy and what’s Reality
long since blurred in Mainstream Media
Drenched in torrents of triviality
by enablers of Acedia

Unbeknownst benighted
watch us grin shortsighted

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-acedia = not caring or not being concerned with one’s position or condition in the world

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It’s complicated!

Thus fades phrases in fashion. In 2017 when this verse was written the word ‘complicated’ was used a lot. Sometimes seemingly as an excuse not to address matters which were most simple.

Word ‘complicated’ is in fashion
hence lacking in restrain & ration

When someone says: “Hi, my name is Matt!
What’s yours?” Don’t feel obligated
say: “Can I get back to you on that?
it’s (majorly) complicated!”

That’s how to ace the coolest phrases
among those faddy fleeting crazes

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Words swoop in screeching flocks

Words swooping in screeching flocks
on rash repeated raids
whether aiming to flummox
darting out from deep shades

May seem fetching while hollow
coming across inane
Glib, quick, too hard to follow
they know not of restrain

Verbiage self-promotional
insincerely emotional

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Opinions, short on sense, we airily dispense

True facts can’t grow or contract
Facts shall remain facts regardless
of wished-for outcome or tact
They are neither kind or heartless

Opinions are but opinions
oft self-serving, subjective
nothing but a claque of minions
milling around affective

Ain’t it these days to facts we take offense
while opinions we airily dispense?

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Of Latin insight let’s not be wear

Now longer ‘esse quam videri’
but rather the other way around
Of ancient wisdom we have grown weary
not letting others’ insight confound

These days largely perception
now ‘seem’ equals ‘to be’, truly!
Keeping up the deception
displaying presumption coolly

Be a showoff and act headstrong
and they may not suspect you’re wrong!

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-esse quam videri = ‘to be, rather than to seem (to be)’

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Snappily we yack & yap

Under Internet’s spell
we snappily yack & yap
away on our crisp cell
Heedless of that it’s a trap:

All those on-screen ad clones
pretend they us adulate
while noses on smart phones
from Life us alienate

We’ll come to regret the barren blight
on what seems a ‘safe connection site’!

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-‘safe connection site’ = alludes to ‘safe injection site’ where addicts can ‘safely’ shoot up