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ONCE UPON A TIME ...
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How Are Your Brain Cells Doing?

Have You Counted Them Lately?

Is Your Cerebellum Still Functioning?

Are You Taking Your Ginko Biloba?

DUH?









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ONCE UPON A TIME...

© - Tom Hyland - 11/18/12


Once Upon a Time...
We were All ... Younger!
And ... Thinner ...
And even ... Prettier!

BUT ... WERE WE ... DUMBER?

Way back When ...
We had less Experience ...
Less Education ... less Age ...
We were only Tyros Then.

YOUNG ... AND ... DUMB!

But ... as we Aged ...
We were Supposed to grow ... Wiser ...
Become like ... ‘Wise Men’ ... Sages ...
Did We?

I DON’T THINK SO!

My Dear Ole Dad often Said:
“The Older I Get, the Dumber I Get ...
And I Ain’t Gettin’ Any Younger!”
Wise Words?

WAS THERE A LESSON TO BE LEARNED?

Once Upon a Time...
The Earth Itself Was ...
Cleaner ... Clearer ... Crisper ... Fresher ...
Nature Abounded with both Flora and Fauna ...

ENTER ... STAGE LEFT ... FERAL, FINITE MAN!

We ... The Elder ... The Sager ... The Wiser ...
Have ‘Screwed Up’ Everything We Touched!
Air ... Land ... Sea ...
Even Outer Space!

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ‘INNER SPACE’?

You Know ... That ‘Space Between Our Ears’ ...
All that ‘Book Larnin’ ...
Practical ... ‘Hands On’ ... ‘Shirt-Sleeve’ Experience?
‘Common Sense’?

DUH?

Once Upon a Time...
We were Taught That ...
“Man Has a Gregarious Nature”
Doesn’t Like to Live ‘Alone’ ...

WHY CAN’T WE JUST ‘GET ALONG’?

Why Haven’t We Learned From History?
Wars! Pestilence! Over-Population!
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! ... GREED!
IT OVERWHELMS THE GLOBE!

ARE WE ACTUALLY DUMBER THAN ... WE WERE?

I WONDER ...
I PONDER ...

I THINK ...
I THANK ...
I THUNK ...


Once Upon a Time...

© - TKH.

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 Reviews of "ONCE UPON A TIME ..."
Reviewed by Chip Bergeron
Reviewed on December 5, 2012
I don't think therre will ever be a solution for stupidity, unortunately....it seems to be in the genes...

Chip

Reviewed by Patrick Granfors
Reviewed on November 21, 2012
I'm with cuz Ed. One of these days a giant can of raid will fall from the sky and 10 billion two legged locusts will be vaporized. It's only fitting. cuz p

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on November 19, 2012
Why Haven’t We Learned From History?

Wars! Pestilence! Over-Population!

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! ... GREED!

IT OVERWHELMS THE GLOBE!



We humans have become the ‘Biblical Locusts’

Devouring and decimating everything in our path;

And soon, there will be 10 Billion consuming human beings,

Yet, in our ‘dumbness’ we still believe that everything will last.


Reviewed by SHERRY HEIM
Reviewed on November 18, 2012
I would comment but I am getting so old and dumb that I don't know how. ;)
Take care,
Sherry

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on November 18, 2012
I love the way Ron is such an optimist; I'm afraid I'm with you on this, Tom. Love and peace to you,

Regis

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on November 18, 2012
U may have been all of those things as well as dumber but in particularly you were never "prettier"...of course then again, neither was or am I...;-) e

Reviewed by John Coppolella
Reviewed on November 18, 2012
There are more of us than the old time Earth can stand. We never give anything back, but gene-er-rationally love to play kicking the can, after-all that is the plight of man. Intelligent imbeciles, tyros indeed! And thus we always will be, because every new man listens to the beat of his own little band, until he finally at death he might understand, that it takes all of us village idiots, 6 billion stooges, this global society of man, to forgive and love, and stop intentional dumbness of politicians = killing warts, before we all can live relevantly again.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on November 18, 2012
Some pretty wise words for old coot! I am editing my brother's AUTO biography. He keeps giving sage advice about how foreign cars are better than domestic cars––all the while describing how he's having to do repairs daily to keep them running and scrounging to save on their high priced parts. He does expound a lot about saving gasoline and buying used and that is about the only plus in his so-called, wise words.

Believe it or not, the world is a better place than it was fifty years ago. We still have a long way to go to become sages, but with the Internet and poems like yours, the dumb and dumber will become a little bit wiser and will all be a little bit better off fifty years now in spite of the horrendous troubles we've always faced.

Ron


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