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From rustic Peccioli, Tuscany to alta moda Venice

On the occasion of Matt(eo), while staying in Tuscany, visiting Venice. What a Paisan!

Inside a shop in Peccioli
nestled in tight an alleyway
was Matteo munching cannoli?
No, on a Venice getaway!

Deserted hoi polloi
for glitterati
Smoothly he would deploy
with literati

where acing Palazzo dinners
with dizzying crowd of winners

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-paisan(o) = someone, here our son Matt(eo), who understands the significance of simply being Italian
-Palazzo dinner = https://quintessenceblog.com/inside-venice

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Of obligations self-absolved

Humans selfishly devolved
into self-absorbed, complacent
Of obligations absolved
only sparingly complaisant

Turned inconsiderate, smug
Unless there’s something gained
barely a glance or a shrug
towards others deigned

Cluelessly protesting: “We’re blameless!”
Conniving, scheming, seeming shameless

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Senators spray sick graffiti

Senatorial behavior during the Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination hearing inspired this verse.

Such puffed up buffoons!
Poltroons in a war dance!
Aspired, failed tycoons?
Leaves us looking askance

Hearings in judicial committee
lair of panicked male chauvinism
where senators spray sick graffiti
ominous of neo-fascism

Misogyny in harsh light
shining unsparingly bright

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Loquacious logistics

“Then we went there
and that was so great
they liked my hair
and then we all ate!”

Spare me loquacious logistics
with silly shallow heuristics!

In boorish reporting
of meager meandering
while mixing exhorting
with transparent pandering

Mercy, don’t let this pass for life
rather send me strenuous strife!

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By those crazed iron-willed beguiled

Walking Life’s path
more or less fulfilled
by Life’s own math
attitudes instilled

Passions few & unwilled
our ambitions mild
ruled by those iron-willed
who have us beguiled

Throughout ages people altruistic
been pushed around by those agonistic

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agonistic = combative; polemic

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Have we become too easily offended, too mired in victimhood?

Rectitude fades vestigial
forlornly residual
Scraps mightily effigial
get scattered quadrivial

Erstwhile patience gone vitriolic
lost in victimhood distended
The trivial turns hyperbolic
by tripwire we claim offended!

What if we tried act convivial
might then our lives feel less trivial?

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victimhood = here: ‘victim mentality’, an acquired personal or cultural trait in which a person tends to see themselves as a victim and to behave as if this were the case even in the face of clear evidence to the contrary

 

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Forebode the bottom-scraped lode

What idiotic presumption
that what’s for us a smooth road
of endless growth and consumption
somehow doesn’t deplete the lode!

Humans been binging
until all got unhinged
Still we ain’t cringing
our cheeks by shame untinged

We have been undiscerning
so for our hapless brood
their future now adjourning:
Irreversibly screwed