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EXCUSES, EXCUSES.

A modern trend that plays fast and loose

Is the ready way people find excuse

For actions and attitudes than can hurt

Mind and body and serve to divert

Attention from the need to prevent

The sort of scourge that life can present

To inflict disease and death in its path

Like some vicious vengeful form of wrath...

Payback for all the vain pretences

That pretend deeds have no consequences

And that no one is ever really to blame -

How fleeting is the face of shame! 

With the virtual vanishing of humility

And rarer still - responsibility!

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◄ A POLITICAL CLERIHEW

EYES - RIGHT! ►

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Wed 24th Feb 2021 18:00

By the power herein of all you've professed
your culpability shall now be marked less
But don't rest now on just that you've tried
Send the words out, loud, far and wide! ?

I myself admit responsibility
for the actions of everyone
whether they have tried to be
in any way at all like me
or whether they have not.

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 24th Feb 2021 17:48

Thanks for the comment Stephen. And a nod of appreciation towards those who clicked "like". Adding the following.....
Everywhere we see this inclination
To seek what's known as "mitigation".

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Stephen Gospage

Tue 23rd Feb 2021 17:58

The last line leads me to tennis players who stare accusingly at their coach when they play a bad shot. Take responsibility!

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