Varför larva oss å dalta
med de lilla vi kan påvisa?
Vad hoppas vi att gestalta
så lite finns att redovisa?
Nog säkrast att endast skrävla
om vi har nått med att tävla
A limerick bringing best wishes:
“Connor now livens up Colorado
doing what he does with such bravado
At college he finds challenge & joy
as is befitting a non-frat boy
What might his young life so far foreshadow?”
We are on a mission
self-centered, all-out
in blazing volition
blinded to fall-out
That’s how the human neighborhood
by self-will been sent crashing
Who looks out for the common good
amidst all egos clashing?
Solidarity ignored
or even outright rejected
can it ever be restored
when we’re scattered disconnected?
Leaving each other in the dust shamelessly
while we’re trying to hog it all, blamelessly!
In verses callow
heart beats warm, cold
Mind mush marshmallow
body creaks old
Now mostly just found headlines sifting
gone the days of own heavy lifting
On the occasion on an adult grandchild’s birthday:
A sharp young woman called Anna
her graceful manners dulciana:
she’s making trails outbound
with both feet on the ground
She’s cheery but no Pollyanna
But she comes not across verbose
our engaging Marissa Rose!
Even though would think in all likelihood
just by those ‘quick on uptake’ understood
Keeps feet on the ground in Life’s throes!
What’s with all that piling schmear
of such sad state affairs?
Aren’t we now suspended here
wonder in whose crosshairs?
In this precarious mess
seems we’re doomed you & I?
We shall furthermore digress
when realizing why:
we’re victims of programmed hoax
in earthly confusion
‘free will’ cruelest of jokes
a most dire delusion
When acting as if in control
we’re playing a pitiable role
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schmear = (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together
edited 06/08/26 1520
För vankelmod djupt upplagd
när som ungdomlig sprätt
hans arma själ isbelagd
levde han inte rätt
Tror att han nu förstår
att i alltför många fall
under för många år
fegt nog gjorde han avkall
Men var finns det någon till fullo genuin?
Nere på Hallandskusten: Min egen kusin!
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avkall = ge(göra) avkall på, uppge, frånsäga sig, neka sig
Of today’s speech be wary
seldom corollary
ill boding, often airy
hurriedly Hail Mary
Flimsy, fleeting such ‘bliss’
when facts, what’s fair we ignore
in collusion we kiss
Cease & desist, I implore!
Or I’ll wake with hangover hammering
from such ceaseless self-absorbed yammering
There’s this Seattle man called Dave
whose sweet wife gets him to behave
while his politics
still keep us transfixed
Of his blithe helpfulness we rave
