***%) Expecting a Return to Cultural Restraint? Hysterically chimerical! Prospects feebler than faint!
Have words become just something we say
subject to rash all-out abuse
just dumped in to the impatient fray
like ever-so-smooth TV news?
Trying express ourselves clearly
seems taxing work, so we balk
rings socially too austerely
Try listen? We’d rather talk!
What if blabber became the umbrage
while restraint conversation’s glue
with enjoyment of succinct language
shared beyond a literate few?
Such prospects are wildly chimeric
as we’re victims of ‘reporting’
by those self-absorbed & mesmeric
in sundry states of transporting
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-chimeric = chimerical: given to or indulging in fantasies
-mesmeric = attracting and holding interest as if by a spell
-‘reporting’ = here: to boorishly drone on with pointless & self-centered accounts of the minute & mundane
-restraint = here: voluntary constraint or reserve in feelings or behavior; discipline in personal and social activities
-transported = here: carried away by strong emotion; enraptured
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