Religion existed before education
it was the one source of information
the one guiding light of inspiration
providing the only answers to question
Through evolution our knowledge has grown
yet it still provides wisdom, beneficial when known,
but it also holds a primitive ideology of old
impressed in the present because the past took a hold,
inevitably it's legacy gifts a legitimacy
that without wouldn't exist if it began this century
there are aspects relatable to middle aged brutality
from an alien world nothing like our present day reality
with inequality and control which protects insecurity
also exclusion that in todays world is wrong morally
holding humanity to beliefs of a former age and majority
long before our present day liberal freedoms and prosperity
it was a present in the past but now lacks intellectual property
we shouldn't base beliefs on a past when we knew less
a once uniting knowledge now way passed its best
that may become relevant when we finally rest
a belief system stuck while its believers progress
My mistress' eyes are nothing like a 40
Watt full spectrum LED bulb;
Doritos are far more red than her lips' red;
If Teslas be white, why then her organs for nourishing babies are dun;
If hairs be USB cables, USB cables grow on her head.
I have seen Monsanto patents damasked, red and white,
But no such intellectual property see I in her cheeks;
And in some volatile aerosols is there more delight
Than in the exhalation that from my mistress is unmentionably unpleasant.
I love to hear her powerful voice, yet well I know
That WAP hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go (except when I became too old for parental controls)
My mistress, when she stalks, kneads the earth like a cat.
And yet, by Hubble’s image of The Pillars of Creation, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Contest: Parody of a famous poem
Sponsor: L. Milton Hankins
Dec 21 2020
Fortunate are those who were thy students
With their successful career affluent
Being an asset to the society
Thou are an intellectual property
An astute trainer unto the masters
Thou have created many futures
A great feeling to have someone
In our family as Principal awesome
Now that you retire from calling
That is divine and amazing
A superannuation of legend like you
I miss o revered HM o' blood blue
I wish thee a life full of pleasures
With family fun and frolicking leisures..!!
This moment of exciting green things
Sooner than later will be pinked
Earthly creatures shall be free riders
Courtesy patents of the carefree
The penniless will ride in first class
The dollar-full will ride in first class
Everything that exists will ride
In economy class not any more
Never out of charity but compulsion
I see the plane coming to land soon
The run-way is being built daily
Forged tickets are being purchased
Dreamy the powerful and the wealth
Dosing nations of the super powers
Less curious nations of the soft powers
Proud creatures with fiery fire hidden in bottles
Unrepentant those who know God just a little
Carefree those who know humanity less
They shall own intellectual property rights
And when this moment comes
Creatures will have equal shares
Free riders in extra-terrestrial realms
The place of total freedom in chains
Governed and controlled obscurity
There every passenger will wake up
And shout, “It is finished”
Mark-Zuckerberg
Is the worst kind of false prophet their is
A wolf dressed down in a Grey t-shirt
A charlatan
A person who would steal intellectual property from his fiends
To meet his own ends
Brazen all smiles nice as pie to your face
But tells lies behind your back
The type of person who is to clever to be caught
Yet the evidence doesn't lie
Actions say this is a sinister underhanded guy
Who would stop at nothing to get bye
With powerful virtual friends in high place's
Billions of Dollar's to be precise
Buys and brings out a whole lot of rat's and mice
Who are willing to turn a blind eye to devious behavior
The type of guy who offloads stocks and share's
While smugly bye watches investors loose there's
A faceless book
With a soulless owner
One day my Friend
In the not to distant end
Someone is going to throw the Book at you
Like this Sucker
THE DREAM POLICE
INVADE MY HEAD
WHEN I STARTED TO DREAM,
WHILE ASLEEP IN BED.
THEY TRIED TO ACCUSE ME
OF UNAUTHORIZED THOUGHTS.
I TURNED THE TABLES
WITH WHAT I WAS TAUGHT.
MY TWO HEADED DRAGON
SNUCK UP FROM BEHIND,
SNATCHED THEM BOTH,
I SAID, YOUR ASS IS NOW MINE.
THIS IS MY WORLD,
I MAKE THE RULES.
YOUR UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY,
IS VERY UN-COOL.
MY TWO HEADED DRAGON
STARED DOWN IT'S FEAST,
AWAITING MY SIGNAL
TO DEVOUR THE BEASTS.
WHEN YOU DON'T REPORT BACK,
THEY'LL KNOW SOMETHING WENT WRONG.
ONE THING FOR SURE,
THEY CAN SEE THAT YOUR GONE.
I'LL DREAM UP A POEM,
HOW YOU WERE TRAPPED IN A MAZE.
LOST FOR YEARS,
MAYBE MONTHS,
EVEN DAYS.
I TURNED MY BACK,
STARTED WALKING AWAY.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED,
AFTER THAT,
ON THAT DAY.
REGARDING MY INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY
RIGHTS.
MY TWO HEADED DRAGON
ALWAYS HAS THE LAST BITE.
I can't believe that he could claim
A poem by Edgar Allan Poe,
Titled as is, but with his name!
That is plagiarism, we know!
Wallace Stevens, Stephen Foster,
Thomas Moore, Sir Philip Sidney,
Famous authors whose works are here-
Posted as this guy's poetry!
Plagiarists steal written work,
And thrive with inadequacy.
Their minds are warped, there evil lurks,
They're crooks, that is seen quite clearly!
When someone would post as his own
The writings of well-known authors,
Then to the whole world he makes known
He's a pathetic pretender!
Cynthia Buhain-Baello~~~02.27.16
Note: Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts,ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work. It is "intellectual property theft" . ---"It’s robbing people of their ideas, inventions, and creative expressions—what’s called intellectual property—everything from trade secrets and proprietary products and parts to movies and music and software." (Source: FBI-www.fbi.bgov/about-us/investigate)
BBC News Alert
Somewhere in France
In the Countryside
A farmer has been arrested
For molesting an old cow
A drunken old hag was on all fours
Crawling around in his field
He, having had his wine and baguette
Thought he had forgotten one cow
Off he went to fondle and milk her ****
Turned out they were as dry as prunes
The cow in English barked; get your hands off of me
To which the pour farmer replied in absolute shock
Merde! Why you cow who barks, you speak English!
How can this be?
She replied I am not a cow you blind old farmer
I am a mooing poet of sorts
I dropped my dictionary in some cow dun here
Can’t seem to tell the difference between the two
I understand replied the farmer
Like me looking at you and a cow
Was very confusing indeed
Well I shall take me leave you old blind fart
The farmer snorted
Let me cut the fence open for you
She crawled back onto the road
Whereby the farmer was arrested
(Alsace has left wing laws it seems)
For letting his cow wander
Upon the intellectual property
Of France
Once there was man called Diamond, the sardar
a CEO,who takes business well above break-even at deep crisis
Not by selling immovable assets
Nor by selling intellectual property assets
Bloody a talent worth appreciation!
Mans inspiration steals its way
Unobtrusively to mind
Like a cat burglar on a heist:
Stealthy, but it comes not to rob
Intellectual property
But to deposit a priceless gem
Still unpolished yet nonetheless
Precious to a creative mind.
Unlike a diamond in the rough
this gems luster is most fleeting
whose innate beauty potential
is measured in nanoseconds
thus leaving little precious time
to create a faceted gem.
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