eric sundin

Why do conversations unravel
and veer off in periphery?
After that someone springs a ‘cavil’
it’s downhill, and not gingerly

Scattered in off-subject traveling
swimmingly darts the ‘red herring’
In all directions unraveling
of logic, reason despairing

The cavalierly cavil
far from the Holy Grail
rather ‘diversion devil’
seldom been seen to fail

Leaves us to hear the verbiage chase
yet one more ‘facts jumps the tracks’ case

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-cavil = petty or unnecessary objections
-red herring = something intended to divert attention from the actual matter at hand

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