now serving on the earth?
Or, doubtless, dogmatize
with doggerel your dictums
much devoted to your wisdom's birth?
Methinks thou dost protest too much,
and such and so on and et cetera
until it drives your listeners
to other places, their geography
and distance quite directly
linked back to the plethora
of your pomposity, unnoticed
absences as you elucidate,
illuminate the audience that
sadly, lacked audacity
and therefore did not leave.
(c) Ellen Gillette, 2014
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