zero tolerance
for stupidity
yet here I am
putting up
with your
shenanigans
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Tennis star Sinner’s no sinner,
But Phogat is, and no winner,
Sinner’s sans intention,
She should learn a lesson,
Are rules for the First World’s honour?
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Happenings |19.08.2024| world, today
Poet’s note: The tennis star Sinner was found positive twice for a banned substance. But his was not an intentional crime, and so he is pardoned. Yet Olympic wrestler Vinesh Phogat was not only disqualified for the final but was stripped of her silver medal she won for being 100 grams in excess weight (a glass of water or urine would account for this difference). Sometimes ‘rules are rules’, and sometimes not so. When suits, one should look for motive or intention! But then, this world is full of double standards.
Separate the art from the artist,
Because you had all once bought it.
Why do we think it’s bad when other folks do it
While we persist in justifying our flagrant ways?
I suspect we cannot see our own shortcomings
Their misbehaviors despicable, ours merely flings.
Written March 20, 2022
No principles
Only pleasures
They will bend the ledgers
For their own gain
At the cost of others pain
Double Standards
Boy how the Lords
Of Old Money and Privilege
Take exception and retreat to the Higher Ground
When their means and tactics
Are used against them
Now this is a double standard
I lend her my shirt and don't squawk
Later, I borrow just one dress
Then it is like "We need to talk"
Santa knows when you are asleep
And he knows when you are awake
But if I knew, that about you
My freedom would be at stake!
At the bar the double standard
Shirtless men, get no drinks for free
Women with no shirts get free drinks
Oh........... I guess that's okay with me!
What does 'clever' mean?
Is it to fix a machine
Is it the ability to sing
Is it to know everything
What is it?
What does 'nice' imply?
Is it the resistance to lie
Is it never to criticise
Is it the skill to advise
What is it?
What does 'pretty' suggest?
Is it the gift of big breasts
Is it to have nice eyes
Is it a gap between thighs
What is it?
What do they mean to you?
Which definition is true
For those you say it to?
Consideration is due
Rather than changing according to who.
I stand at temptations door...
As anger spurs a grievance withheld.
Surreptitiously you praise the incongruent
While flinging to the wayside the valuable.
Eyes closed to the importance of veracity,
You belabor simplicity with objectivity denounced
As you are drawn only to the iconoclastic.
I long to visualize cronyism obliterated.
The Contest sponsor Jerry T. Curtis
My feelings about those N/A's
You don't miss a slice off a cut loaf
At least that's what most cheaters would say.
But they're not talking about their wives
Because in their minds they have surmised
That their wives would never view life this way
So if this is a carved in stone fact
About how all of our wives would react
I for one would sure appreciate
If someone out there could set me straight
How wives handle this issue with tact.
Men crave what they see on the big screen
And are constantly caught in between
Wanting what it is that they can't get
Forget about heart aches and regret
Last time I looked men ain't all prom queens
So come on boys let's all rally round
And try not let the male species down
All I ask is that we recognize
I am not trying to patronize
But shouldn't the real kings wear the crown.
The expectations given to me I
have not met
Unlike others I can't always
forgive and forget
Like the time you said whole
heap of lies to me
And you wonder why I have an
issue with honesty
I haven't quite met up to your
dreams
But all that glitters is not as it
seems
Like the time you made me feel
so unworthy
All those times I cried out, I
suppose you never heard me
You never understand until you
experience the same
Then suddenly it becomes
acceptable-you sound so lame
Like the time when I became
lost in the crowd
But to air my concerns,
somehow it's not allowed
But lo and behold if you was to
feel lost too
You expect a fuss and to be
molly cuddled too
Like the time I explained my
true fears
Why ask if you don't like what
you hear
Like the time when you said
you're always here for me
Hello.........I'm still waiting for
your company
Maybe I'm looking at the glass
half empty
As the things said don't
manifest to be
Could I be too analytical so that
I don't understand?
Like the joker in a pack you've
dealt me your hand
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