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Sonnet to Authority: noun, (with capital A) ...

Kevin Taylor
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since 1999-12-23

Posts 185
near Vancouver, BC, Canada

0 posted 2001-10-29 11:04 PM

Authority: noun, (with capital A)
An expert source of inexpert advice
Or information, with little to say
But popular amongst Authori-ties
Which is the (noun) plural form of small minds
With little to say and lots of them saying
(Hear those majuscules!) FACTS HARD TO UNWIND!
We find ourselves inclined to decline such waylaying
Of truth or of fact with opinions sans stature
(Somehow I have managed twelve beats to my measure)
Like Truth from The Mount of their own manufacture
They pander and ponce for their profit and pleasure.
Authority: noun (with capital A)
What can I say? It's the Word of The Day!

Kevin

"Poetry is, at once, what you get... and how you get there."

[This message has been edited by kevintaylor (edited 10-29-2001).]

doreen peri
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since 1999-05-25

Posts 3812
Virginia

1 posted 2001-10-30 12:48 PM

you've written this with much authority!

nice job!

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