AN ODE TO PSEUDO-INTELLECTUALS

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AN ODE TO PSEUDO-INTELLECTUALS

 

by Willys Watson

 

1.

 

Let us praise these gregarious kith and kin whose

onus appears to be of a tutelage nature,

a voluminous quest

to irradiate our

vernacular stature,

to luxuriantly masticate

the great lack of trivialities

within our impalpable, languid street jargon.

 

2.

 

Let us praise these magnanimous maestros while

they sink, with vehement raillery, their verbal

talons into the dense

necrosis of our minds:

lambasting turpitude

and mental lethargy

with incantations of irrevocable disdain

as we praise their latitudinarian souls.

 

3.

 

Consider them not fey. Attempt not to efface

commiserated auto-intoxication.

They are not ignoble.

Titillated? Yes.

Sometimes pixilated.

But blatant incursions

can not adulterate our frugal imbroglio

as panegyrically we praise their pious oligarchy!

 

4.

 

Whattahell, they’re harmless buffoons! But they mean well

and we should not snub these snobs because they mean well.

 

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