To a Bombastic Viking

bombast, n. pretentious inflated speech or writing.

Speechifying platitudes,
You bamboozle no one
But yourself, old man...
For I don't really
Care for your feeble
Attempts at poetry or your
Fake words of wisdom any
More than for your views
On politics or religion --
Just my "opinionism" and
Lack of vision, I suppose.

  August 6, 2006
--Alexander Shaumyan