Don'T Demean Meaning
In my life, narrow margins matter
Opening my eyes wide
To better perspectives which don’t flatter
Dispensable pride riding on the tide
Where populism portrays norms
To which I don’t subscribe
Despite unusual forms and storms
I ride although I can’t bribe the scribe
Who espouses a culture that departs
From humility to portray gullibility
As a virtue from which servile starts
Gain and regain infallibility
Cultivated into a bandwagon
That bends truth
Into a notoriety nonagon
Gone uncouth against a sooth
Sayer satirized and ostracized
For holding dissenting views
Which I embrace in my italicized
World where I don’t condone crews
Who sail to my North Pole
With wrong readings of latitude
To ride in circles dug in a humbug hole
Spewing and skewing the puniest platitude
Elevated into a golden standard
In ramparts and proportional parts
So incorrectly computed by a laggard
They conflate gallons of unwisdom and quarts
Which in my metric world signify
Confusion and contusion not just on the periphery
But also at the core where midgets justify
Unsubstantiated hypotheses which carry
Out fallacy tests and infer
Conclusions at variance with established benchmarks
Scientific rigour and vigour prefer
To award deserved marks
To theories in which I believe
Sustaining virtues of rigorous proof
Which I declare anyone can perceive
As the essential light to illuminate a rudimentary roof
Although reality at first challenges
The paradigm that devotes more time and space
To fallacy and the supremacy that singe meninges and lozenges
Which metamorphose a bluff believer into an agile acumen ace.
Copyright © John Sensele | Year Posted 2018
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