Not Poetry. Quatrain Verse in English & Swedish. Dagsverser. On the Mundane & the Arcane.
Is a claim of upstanding
while flimsy, most musty
kept alive by grandstanding
with bogus modesty?
While who knows what lurks
in our subliminal
perhaps shirks & smirks
some intrigues criminal?
Or are we just one of many liars
amongst precious few truthful outliers?
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
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
Proclaim empathy
but mind its action term:
Solidarity
from which we smoothly squirm
For ain’t our druthers
to look away
and blaming others
for any fray?
While caring, sharing beyond the spoken
would entail brave action beyond token!
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
In Helsinki it went to hell
and panic took the front seat
“American Empire’s death knell”
weighed in the Power Elite
A United States President
who did not bully or patronize
Against Empire’s precedent
to never slightly try empathize
They’ll never squander an enemy
or dare upgrade one to frenemy!
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-Helsinki = the July 2018 meeting when Trump did not bully or patronize Putin
We’ve watched a variety
of impropriety
in dazzling dubiety
and insobriety
For too many years pretended
we were ruled by Meritocracy
which emphatically ended
Now saddled with Kakistocracy
who shall never be appeased
or moved by entreaty
they just leer at us displeased
as were we graffiti
In these times cruelly stern
all while right on we churn
the rich take what we should earn
And we lack guts to learn!
Kakistocrats never get placated
none of their demands ever vacated
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-kakistocracy = government run by the worst & vile, least qualified & most unscrupulous citizens (from Greek kakistos: worst)
There exists no stronger fealty
in our late stage capitalism
than for example to realty
as entitled opportunism
Lost in stock market goosery
watching transactions careen
Splashing awash in usury
indulging profits obscene
By justification spurious
while to multitudes injurious
As Western propaganda
keeps glowering vitriolic
beware its memoranda:
Cast Putin as diabolic!
Rarely hifalutin
like Netanyahu and Trump
the more astute Putin
won’t join on their distraught stump
Tell me, why this mythos
Russia as ‘adversary’?
What’s so amiss with us
that makes this necessary?
Perhaps Russia must be blameworthy
so that The West can look praiseworthy?
A people’s contention
elite harshly circumscribes
by sternest convention
to inhibit ‘diatribes’
Power elite unsightly
never brooks true order:
We must submit contritely
to their own disorder
The elite bombards us with dubiety
pretending they’re acting with propriety