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The Vanity of Vanity
by +Steven Curtis Lance → (All Poetry by +Steven Curtis Lance)
Monday, October 28, 2019    Rated "G" by the Author.
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The Vanity of Vanity
 


מנא מנא תקל ופרסין


 
The kakistocracy
Devolves into kleptocracy
While the getting is good
And never mind democracy
Never quite understood
By our new aristocracy
Out getting what they can
For the authoritarian
Into inanity
A show about insanity
Ongoing on TV

The criminal reality
Insulting to the soul
Assaulting our humanity
Asserting its control
Resulting in absurdity
And feeling lesser-than
Never mind about feeling free
Forgetting what we can
Insulted by the angry man
Going mad on TV
The vanity of vanity
 


Steven Curtis Lance


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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on October 30, 2019
It is really strange that wealth gives people the power it does have the power and has over people who don't have wealth. Don't they know that happiness is much better than wealth. Wealth is destroying us by greedy activity that is eating away at our nest at a rapid rate unheard of in human history.

Ron

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on October 29, 2019
You betcha! If you can't control your vanity, vanity will big time control you. Nice work, Steven.

Reviewed on October 29, 2019
Your words have painted the true picture, Steven! Yes! "Going mad on TV", indeed! 'Love this!

Love ya!

Jane


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