Acquainted, antiquated tainted

The spelling-correction oracle

Acquainted, antiquated tainted
Undebated past charade,
At odds with the union
Surrounding all humans
Regardless of cause

To type it in, and see
Acquainted, understandably
But also antiquated,
And that compounded, tainted
Resonated subliminally

What where those days?
Old ways caked
With the fine delusions
Of time removed in antiquity?

Have you not met me?
Are you worthy?
Scourge thee of the bravery
To approach
Above reproach, see,

This one's not acquainted to me.

(Duality and spite, it's silent fee)

Author's Note

these are kinda like rhythm studies, trying to see if I can get between the points comfortably while saying what I mean to, and still seeming to carry continuity.

Please please and always, comment freely

Reviews

[SHEEMA HUQ]

For me an elusive piece, possibly with political components? Reflections on the short-comings of particular acquaintances? Thought provoking.

[David Aiello]

oh, much more lude rude and ballsy than that;
I'm spitting in the face of gentrification as a whole.

The idea here, (in pure Davlish, as we all it around here), is reflecting on a time where people could sorta half-know someone? that always creeped me out kinda.

like, you could be acquainted to someone and sorta hold them in check there, at arm's length; and if you tried to engage more fully and genuinely, they would have the power to block you out as a not-really-friend/person with this cheesy "acquaintance" deally.

Now, I get that it's a useful and functional social tool, to have many shades of grey; at the same time, I think it's that faux elevationalism that allows biggotry and elitism to run rampant as the crotch-rot of the twenty-first century.

as you can probably tell by my loving delivery, I'm not a fan.
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happy to hear the thoughts are provoked! (may they forgive my intrusion in retrospect)
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