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"Ok Tough Guy" a poem
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"Ok Tough Guy" a poem
 Ok Tough Guy, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)

 
Yes you can
Assert your power
Impress everyone
At the top of the tower
 
Oh how conceted
And short sighted
It's temporary success
In cosmic time
 
Can the rich man
Survive sub zero temps
Can the holy man 
Survive scoarching heat
 
Can the dictator
Survive 300 degrees fahrenheit
Can the Prime Minister
Survive minus 458 
 
Oh how tough you are
With your tribal wars
Temporary succes
And still ignore
 
Long ago 
And long before
A creature so small
Beats you all
 
Microscopic
Found in dew
It's been around
Longer than you
 
Cretaceous/Paleogene
Had a big disaster
Where lots of life
Did not go on after
 
Triassic/Jurassic
Catyclysm faced too
Even more life
Ended too
 
Permian/Triassic
Life got hit
By another bullet
And that was it
 
Late Devonian
Took more out
But this tiny guy
Kept going on
 
Ordvician/Silurian
Did as well
Reduce the gene pool
But it did well
 
Still haning out
In morning dew
Tardigrades
Outlast you
 
So pontificate
And pound your chests
Over religion and boarders
And politics
 
All you tough guys
Have nothing on it
The water bear has survived
5 mass extinctions
(end)

New today 5/7/16 post #831 hosted at my home poetry thread here.
 http://www.rationalresponders.com/forum/31771?page=16
 
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RE: "Ok Tough Guy" a poem
 "If It Sounds Too Good" By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet On Facebook and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)

 
The soothsayers 
And Seers
Oracles 
And prophets
 
Psychics
And Ouija boards
Homeopathy
Don't doubt them
 
Of holy men, old writings
Blindly beleive them
Don't ever dare
To even question
 
They are the fine print
In any contract
There to serve you
Payday loan or cell phone
 
They are the woman
Sawed in half
PT Barnum 
Has the last laugh
 
You'd have me believe
The claims of antiquity
Don't thrive on the same marketing
Of infomercial TV
 
Deities remove stains
Get your carpet clean
Read the fine print
Before you subscribe to Dish
 
Oxi clean
In omni fashion
Get's the mouse on the wheel
To chase utopia cheese
 
Reverse mortgage
Is what religion is
Henry Winkler 
Is a scam
 
You still own
Your brain
Until the bookmaker
Demands you pay
 
Racketeering
Is all the same
Be it old 
Or oxy clean
 
If it sounds too good to be true
It probably is
And that is why
All gods are dead
(end)

Original host thread here post #844 hosted here http://www.rationalresponders.com/forum/31771?page=16
 
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