Rationality

Someone asked:
what was rationality.

I said:
Rationality is the state 
of a system 
when logic waves goodbye.

Asked them to picture,
sine and cosine curves,
side by side-
same shape yet completely 
out of phase
at all times.

Having got their attention,
I pushed on:
Rationality is when
one says 'yes'
to hang on to his job,
even if it meant 
his subsequent erasure.

(I received claps)

It is in ensuring
shareholders get
the largest pound of flesh,
though they don't work.

(more claps)

It is in making sure
farmers get peanuts 
while Porsche rolls in
for the middleman.

(more more claps)

It is in making sure
a rapist would go free,
on technical aspects
and shall perform rape
again.

(loud applause)

Most of all,
it is in voting for leaders
who say climate change
is false;
though Greenland has turned 
Green.

(thunderous applause)

I could see relief 
on most faces.
One said they felt comforted
in having their rationality reaffirmed:
all of them had purchased bungalows
on lifelong loans.