Sickophancy Fallacy
Poem or rant? Either/and/or/both.
I've been thinking about the word ingratiate
how it sounds rolling off my tongue, it sticks
in my throat, distasteful disdain, the refrain
inflamed senseless egobasting in jus de fous
cacophonous sickophancy fallacy,
est-ce pour curry flavour,
est-ce pour win over
the idea of ingratiating is nauseating, to me
transactional reactional, dissatisfactional
sometimes, being nice, is anything but
when there's a but, an end goal, beyond
encouragement, inspirement, motivatiment
ingratiation pour votre self-satisfaction
brutalisation of a civilisation foundation
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Author's Notes: As the subtitle, so the author's notes!
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Paul Stewart
Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.
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