{"id":1680,"date":"2014-10-23T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2014-10-23T11:48:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:48:07","slug":"poem-silver-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/23\/poem-silver-bullets\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Silver Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beware of cellars of silver bullets<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Proffering too for won buys<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As wear wolves clothing<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In the face<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Of murder-suicide<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Know if, and, or butt<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Totally transmogrifying<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In a fool moon rising<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A dark knight<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A bastard sun<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Offering kool aid<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As a final solution<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A straw man choosing<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Short cut<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Or going long<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Whether thirst or lust<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The buyer be ware<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As passably souled<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>If the prize is right<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This poem is about hucksters of all sorts.\u00a0 There is something about human nature that leaves us vulnerable to quick fixes, the proverbial &#8220;silver bullet.&#8221;\u00a0 I suspect that this has a lot to do with laziness, the resistance to exerting effort, and a commensurately lazy view of reality where if just one thing were fixed then all would be right with the world.\u00a0 Impatience is a cousin of laziness, as patience is the mother of all virtues.\u00a0 Also, humans seem attracted to the clever, often at the expense of intelligence.\u00a0 Even the apparently novel can beguile us to bypass ancient wisdom or just plain common sense.\u00a0 Wile sellers of silver bullets must be held accountable; of coarse, the buyer must be ware, willing to be sold.\u00a0 A certain steeling of our souls may lead us behave shrewdly to salespeople.\u00a0 Not wanting to peer a fool is often the salespersons best tool.\u00a0 Exorcising wisdom as a passing fad allows us to be taken and retards us from excepting what is given.\u00a0 May you be forever souled, in awe ways rooted in that beyond accost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beware of cellars of silver bullets Proffering too for won buys As wear wolves clothing In the face Of murder-suicide Know if, and, or butt Totally transmogrifying In a fool moon rising A dark knight A bastard sun Offering kool &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/23\/poem-silver-bullets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[542,294,171,482,235,505,454,379,387,658,94,601,496,531,453,429,389],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-ancient","tag-awe","tag-consumerism","tag-human-nature","tag-laziness","tag-lazy","tag-murder","tag-nature","tag-patience","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-reality","tag-resistance","tag-soul","tag-suicide","tag-virtue","tag-wisdom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Silver Bullets | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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