If a child is abducted three thousand miles away
why should mine be instructed no longer to play?
If your political candidate does not win
is mankind\'s fate so doomed to end?
Why are my kids at constant peril
if I purchase not that certain apparel?
Without your concoction my house will fall down?
And, without your direction my diet is unsound?
A word used hundreds of years
now heard brings some to tears?
No longer may I use this speak
for fear to the police my name is leaked?
Why is Hysteria the constant state?
Some like me simply can\'t relate.
Why get your knickers all knotted and knurled?
Really–it\'s not the end of the world–
I bet you learned that FEAR sells,
whipped to a frenzy the mob swells.
It\'s also contagious as the mob grows–
so advantageous to your sinister goals.
Please don\'t insinuate something\'s wrong with me
if I don\'t go along with, i.e. concede.
Augustus / Folsom, LA / December 2016