Up There

All is but droll and quaint and gauche
When you seek for lavish but receive a skosh
Ostentatious, loquacious, and synecdoche
And so, quite befitting of Delaroche

This may seem felicitous to the vertiginously proud
But it sounds quite silly when you say it out loud
If we could just terraform down, we could speak to the crowd
Then, mayhaps, get on the same level rather than have heads in a cloud

It’s quite simple, really
The things we all are feeling
They have us all reeling
Sometimes informal half-rhymes are so healing

A little of this here, a little of that there
Until there’s a little of a lot everywhere
That wasn’t so hard, and seems more fair
But fair is no currency, and regarding that, no one “up there” seems to care





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