The Journalist’s Lies

“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”

 ― Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs



Lions brawn teeth hair fierce mane
Death silent sentient salient insane

First a scratch on marble, neglected
It widens, all see it, neglect it
Blood oozes pus, we gonna let it

What's a little Fib to evil? 
One starts the rise to new levels
Then one again before in shovels
It leaps to hell totally disheveled

2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21
Fibs eat laxity with no laxatives on
34 climbing up to 4-1-8-1
Eyes turn away; what's a little Fib growing? 
We'll find a way even when Truth's gone. 

Lions brawn teeth hair fierce mane
No courage to face pain to heal game
It's not all false, it's not all bane
So let's pretend everything here is sane
Let's let evil remodel and set its reign
Death silent sentient salient insane

(c) nyonglema




Sola scripturina

Welcome to high school, where the books
Need cranes, the pens get drained 
And, and... you'll overload the brain! 

So, wise student, see here this gizmo:
All formulae, all concepts here for you, 
Picked and chosen all that pain to eschew

Newton's central idea, Lorentz's too
Lavoisier, Curie, Mendeleev, Bohr, more
In little print, focusing just on core. 

Of course the details long to be read
Upon the hundreds of pages that hide, 
Behind each of this books pages' side

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut................

This student Luther, the know-it-all 
Has determined that the Principia is 
Not needed to get the central theses.

That our little book intended to aid
Is solely sufficient, so ditch the rest,
Rely solely on these excerpts for the test. 

(c) nyonglema