The Lunatic Fringe

Do not believe every "inspired expression."

The Lunatic Fringe

 

By Elton Camp

 

Once it was a wild-eyed man carrying a sign

“Tomorrow, all but me will be left behind.”

Now we have far more from which to choose

To find those people with really extreme views

 

Makers of silly conspiracy theories are an example

That Osama bin Laden is now dead, proof is ample

Yet there are those who insist that the man is living

As proof, sightings of him walking about are giving

 

Political views is another source of some weird nuts

To promote much mistaken ideas, they have the guts

And there are always many people so easy to deceive

Not matter how strange an idea, they quickly believe

 

The lunatic fringe has folks you don’t expect to see

Example:  the founder of Heaven’s Gate had a Ph.D.

On the faculty of an American university he served

Until into total madness, illogic and murder swerved

 

The Unabomber was surely not some ignorant dunce

He had a doctorate and worked at a university once

But he developed ideas just as wild as they could be

Then he decided sending bombs would make all see

 

So all of us should guard against what we may accept

At deceit, a fair number of people have become adept

So, to avoid folly, one of the best things that we can do

Is to demand proof that anything odd we’re told is true