Not Poetry. Quatrain Verse in English & Swedish. Dagsverser. On the Mundane & the Arcane.
For massive misology
sprightly slighted ecology
chaotic chronology
they offer no apology
Wasted to first search out facts
in world narcissistic
Merely declare what attracts
with quips jingoistic!
While objecting to such ‘reporting’
is found culturally unsporting
Today’s fiends
downward leaning
gawk on screens
cyber preening
If suggested they be weaned
through an intervention
they’ll act aggrieved & demeaned
in glib circumvention:
“We must left free to careen
hunched over with nose on screen!”
Is our ignoring contradiction
freedom from friction in fiction
communicative dereliction
or just mirthful malediction?
Not inclined toward clarity
us fumblers of the simplest sentence
while lukewarm on what’s verity
won’t feel disquiet or repentance
Thought restraints had since long gone away
are we not just texting anyway?!
Hoping to escape but all in vain
cannot handle Reality
Instead we’re rattling bondage’s chain
whining dejected hyperbole
Helpless to abstain
flying high, smashed
Frenzied to deplane
before we crash
How our lives darkly constringe
when fueled by pills or syringe
Daunting the hypocrisy
when ruled by plutocracy
or by kakistocracy
Both pretend democracy
How dismissively they act
to any thorough search of fact
Quite unable to react
beyond emotional impact!
Shrill the whistles of delusion
in music played by calliope
Minions marching in effusion
to music of faux reality …
… amidst fellow bewildered minions
hurling out their fact-free opinions!
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A Democracy that works for most of us depends upon a well informed and consistently engaged public:
By main stream media conformed
erstwhile ‘hard news’ turned entertainment:
offers up a worldview malformed
keeps us powerless by containment
Opinions spouted unformed
by impatience upstaged
To facts & logic not warmed
in ignorance encaged
From mounting calamities disengaged
with any sense of urgency assuaged
Unfazed by our own pretension
grasp of issues flagrantly hazy
Hard to listen, pay attention
when intellectually lazy
Fleetingly attracted
we find what’s brief protracted
Swiftly we’re distracted
too much from us exacted
Triggered as if by bump stock
with scant effort to aim
we keep spraying our stump talk
through story line so lame
Relieved when can finally defect
hopping on to a next fresh subject
Strive for the role of the avower
who explores the Truth together
Shun arguments to overpower
which makes us our lost bellwether
Don’t throw in that red herring
surreptitiously non-glaring
diverts the discourse, erring
away on fallacious bearing
Such a disingenuous hoax
throws off good faith dialogue
like the stick thrust in bike wheel spokes
leaves our quest crashed epilogue
Been losing our sweet tooth
for what erstwhile was Truth?
The smartphone obsession
impairs our mental mettle
restrains in regression
fades fast erstwhile fine fettle
Claims of ‘doing our research’
just clicking profusion
Silly stupefying smirch
cutting short conclusion!
Thus we’re torn asunder
while we’re going under
As Life is never taintless
might be safer shuffle like sheep
tractably & be plaintless
watching warily from seats cheap
Save us from the raving babble
too grating, clueless & grim!
Elbowed by the ruthless rabble
chance to get out alive: Slim
Aren’t we skating on thin, cracking ice
pretending that all is sweet & nice?