603 : Mob Rule

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #124) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:

inky, wet, close, hole, sparks, feathery 

shoots, scarlet, doubt, sway, oiled, lost

Mob Rule

The banners flutter brightly

And define the fighting teams.

Scarlet, blues, blacks and greens

The left, the right, dry, the wet.

Steel will challenge flint

Both hard and cold and yet,

While sparks are pretty certain,

Warmth and light are not.

Self-opinionated bystanders

Cheer with inky fingers,

Shooting letters to the papers.

But in times of doubt,

When uncertainty is king

And insecurity lingers,

Where manufactured fear prevails,

And all reason is lost

To the warm and feathery words,

Well-practiced and well oiled,

Of the opportunists

Who attempt to sway good people

To support the unpalatable,

To draw ranks,

To close holes,

To fend off the 'enemy',
An enemy

More perceived than real:

Humanity is lost from the beginning

Subservient to the only goal—

Of winning.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2013

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