Wealth trumps intelligence every time.
The belief that it makes the world go round
Means that truth and beauty aren’t worth a dime,
And Trumping is the order to which we’re bound.
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Doggerel Dave (Pseudonym) (
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You can sell beauty but not truth, money buys justice. Money purchases health, friends, wives, votes, power. It may not by happiness but it helps and certainly buys comfort. It may not buy love but makes one not to notice. A good write Dave that unfortunately is too true to ignore.
Ambivalence there, Soren? For the purpose of the short verse above, I confine the argument to truth and justice. The rest you have included in your pile on are true but on a personal level, and not what this is about.
Thanks for the call.
Most welcome Dave here is just a thought in ditty form:
We are on the wrong road, a world ready to explode, to make it our abode higher laws we must decode
Relinquishing our vanity of technology, letting ecology and humanity form a unity in harmony
Nature is the answer, let us romance her, with her be a dancer, population is the cancer
Learn from history, unravel nature's mystery, safety in this consistory
Nature has its own rules, learn from her schools, human values are for fools, wisdom lies in nature's tools
Nice versy effort Soren. Go play somewhere else please..
So very true Dave, those with the money to help others only ever think of themselves and blow the rest!!
Andy
Cheers Andy.
That’s why poetry appeals as there is a lack of financial liquidity to live a poetically extravagant life! 🕊️🙏🏻
It's what 'we' do when 'we' are powerless, but delude ourselves into thinking 'we' are doing something significant. ('I' substitutes for 'we' here - the royal plural, and definitely not amused).
He of the dodgy wig! lol.
Wouldn't mind if just for once you focussed on what was under the wig.....Bless yer cotton socks!
Dave, this is sharp and satisfying. The wordplay lands clean, and the bite is unmistakable. It feels concise, pointed, and unapologetic. Exactly as it should be regarding the Mango Menace...Agent Orange...Whatever you want to call it. 😏 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
'Mango Menace... Agent Orange'... Come on go for it (him); whole new versifications to explore (or maybe not - you are much closer to him than I am)....
Should I start a 'Save Tristan' fund now - just in case?...😜
Yes...I believe you should on multiple levels! 😂 As for going for it, I am sure I will. Too much going on not to. I just currently wonder, how long does it take institutional ICE to melt? 🤷♂️ History tells us it’s rarely quick...maybe never. That said, pressure matters. Words matter. Artists matter. Poets unite. 🪱🖤🔥🙏 Thanks for the encouragement, Dave! Stay tuned.
I will stay tuned,, Tristan. Even so, words with a modicum of care, and be prepared to duck (not permanently - reflex action only.😜)
Yeah. I\'ll keep it in my lane and, well...be me. Ducking only when I reject the flavor pie being thrown! 🤣
this rings so true -
the lobby that believes that wealth trumps intelligence is definitely the one 'trumping' him up
and the world bears his capricious wishes - and truth hides behind silence - fearing to come out
Absolutely got that right. As many thanks as I can give you.
welcome !
have a great weekend - take care
Remember the days when intelligence counted and it opened doors. Not anymore, now people only listen to the buck.
The world is held to ransom with these people in charge and there doesn't seem any way out now.
We're doomed. Can't wait to Trump attacks Greenland, protected by fellow NATO troops. China and Russia will be pissing themselves laughing.
There was a time... probably a few times, when things could have been and to some extent were different.....
That was pre-social media days when it was harder to brainwash the public.
I don't know why but it reminds me of an alternative version of Rock/Paper/Scissors that I heard:
Bull***t beats brains
Brains beats brawn
Brawn beats bull***t
As an alternative game it has its points......'trouble is there's no flow when it comes to timing, not much balance. It is going to take a bloody long time, I fear, before Brains manages to beat either Brawn or Bullshit.
You spread yourself too thinly here at MPS; I personally would kike to see much more of your work.
The last line..
Had to go back and check it myself. Think It is one of my more complete ones....
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