if reasons govern
and rationale is what it is
and common sense gets fair airing
and sophistry is not so addictive to the lame

then in stark reality
the chippers chipping away
would grasp less the blunted knives
that's yet to make a cut after thirty years

look at the planters
toiling night and day sowing
alas all sown are stones in mirages
and all that's grown are the vocabulary of flying monkeys

in truth its all a con
the fools errand of finding
a left handed knife or Striped paint in black/white
the diluted emulsion of rogues that makes the innocent the guilty

one sided stories aired
distortions misinformation unquestioned
malice pollicised, fabrications lauded to the gullible
lies hedged by lies to excuse the unreality of the unreal

So please just do as you're told
for to question chicanery and banality
is not an option readily open to the banal commoners
a time wasting confused and disingenuous ruck helps relieve
the miseries and inadequacies of the mundane lives and mediocrity