{"id":4724,"date":"2023-12-14T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2023-12-14T11:30:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:30:25","slug":"poem-rube-goldberg-rubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/14\/poem-rube-goldberg-rubes\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Rube Goldberg Rubes"},"content":{"rendered":"

This poem is a commentary on ingenuously using overly complicated machinations and demagoguery to achieve simple and base desires of greed and power. This sad state of affairs is empowered by a sufficient pool of fools, or rubes. The poem’s title is derived from a Rube Goldberg machine<\/a>, which is a chain reaction-type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and (impractically) overly complicated way.<\/p>\n

Rube Goldberg Rubes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I AM (sic)
\nTard
\nOf cobbling won after the other
\nA soulless Rube Goldberg machine
\nOf unfathomable guise
\nDemeanor the better
\nTwisted at warp speed
\nThat under
\nLying order
\nA total bluff
\nPetty prestidigitations
\nIn towering piles
\nAs hole of the world
\nPlunging entrails
\nWell
\nTrod
\nWhat will it
\nTake
\nToo yearn my keep
\nLife longing
\nThat whole knew level
\nOf awe reality
\nOver and above mirror realty
\nFlush with the holy possible
\nBaring our souls
\nTo new heights
\nInspiring life-giving heirs
\nNever halving
\nToo cross
\nA line meant
\nTo bar no one
\nA salud to awe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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