home Poem List Next Poem Shallow Reasons Governmental spokesman seem too shallow Repetition of obviousness beams As if spokesman expect accepting flow For thought lacking insight's logical seams We've advanced incompetence to its heights What was freed now decides insanities Spreading insistance like locust spread blights With presidents speaking banalities Incredulous are some of insistance That we are endangered with no clear proof Politically correct persistance Mimics satire's comic tragedy's spoof Shrillness does not contribute to reason Overly over again comments fail Claiming known facts like leaves in season Mean naught if when questioned thoughts don't avail Embedded evidence was not sited Until days after its public release Of new weapons which could have then blighted Dreams of living well which otherwise cease No remarks of some previous knowledge Make us suspicious of liars and lies So oft' assisted by politic's sledge Smashing good ideas with failure that pries (c)ERA 04:47 PM 3/10/03