The Lunatic Fringe
The Lunatic Fringe
By Elton Camp
Once it was a wild-eyed man carrying a sign
“Tomorrow, all but me will be left behind.”
Now we have far more from which to choose
To find those people with really extreme views
Makers of silly conspiracy theories are an example
That Osama bin Laden is now dead, proof is ample
Yet there are those who insist that the man is living
As proof, sightings of him walking about are giving
Political views is another source of some weird nuts
To promote much mistaken ideas, they have the guts
And there are always many people so easy to deceive
Not matter how strange an idea, they quickly believe
The lunatic fringe has folks you don’t expect to see
Example: the founder of Heaven’s Gate had a Ph.D.
On the faculty of an American university he served
Until into total madness, illogic and murder swerved
The Unabomber was surely not some ignorant dunce
He had a doctorate and worked at a university once
But he developed ideas just as wild as they could be
Then he decided sending bombs would make all see
So all of us should guard against what we may accept
At deceit, a fair number of people have become adept
So, to avoid folly, one of the best things that we can do
Is to demand proof that anything odd we’re told is true
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