ABSENCE OF SENSE IS A VIRTUE (A POEM)

Absence of sense is a virtue

When nonsense rules supreme

In a crazy world gone topsy-turvy

As the young and the old alike

Don’t deem “thinking” essential!

The thinker winces in mortification

To see thought tossed into the waste bin.

He knows that future generations

Will not forage to bring “thinking” back

To rein in the absurd world to reason!

Man’s capacity to argue and reason

Is supplanted by his subtle emotions

That find a ready market among peers

Equally ignorant and similarly attuned,

Explosively to dangerous reactions!

Our books written by sages and prophets

Are now most conveniently interred

By callous indifference of wise guys

With sparkling heads having a yen only

For nursery rhymes and no serious epics!