Boredom

It is the extraordinary privilege of human beings It does not in the least affect other living beings Its peculiarity is that it prods only the intellectuals And discounts idiots and enlightened as exceptions. It is only the sensitive and sensible who succumb While the stupid and useless treat it with aplomb This proves that too much of thinking is no good Lest boredom bug may attack and that is no good. One may take pride in being very knowledgeable And suffer the frequents bites of the boredom bug Or dumbly admit being stupid and an ignoramus And rejoice in the low bliss that ignorance confers.