SPLIT INFINITY
We live in a world full of isms
Life seen through distorting prisms
Common sense gets no deference
Equality can mean preference
And society's a sequence of schisms!
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It's said that I'm guilty of many any "ism"
(Most frequently people say, 'plagiarim')
But these I refute;
Though I'll not dispute
I'm happy confessing to onanism.
Harry - Perhaps I should write - "Equality can mean preference". Claims for "equality" often seem cloaked demands for having your cake and eating it too. The word itself requires constant vigilance if it is not to be distorted in a world that uses and abuses the English language "to suit" an agenda.
M.C.
Unusual choice of rhymes. they work through
stressing the rest of it in the right way.
The whole thing reminds me of Shakespeare`s
words about keeping the road as well as any man
(something like that)
It seems to me that fourth line is self -defeating of the whole idea.
Still like it though.
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M.C. Newberry
Sun 24th Mar 2013 02:26
JC - I'm thinking of writing a poem in the
Elizabethan style (otter be good) title:
"To His Koi - fishless" -
when I need a change from the demanding dexterity of this present post!