The rebuttal

Written (in a comment!) by bestie guestie Jessica Perini, in response to Catherin’s poem Distracted

No you weren’t born
in Shakespeare’s day!
You’ve been captured by capitalists
who have their own sway.

The tools and tricks
of mindless scum
who seek to entangle you
in their scrum.

They seek to ensure
your creative muse
is silenced and shaped
to a bag-buying flooz.

Though you weren’t born
in Shakespeare’s day
you still have thoughts
and things to say…

Games to play
with your kids,
words to write
with your squids.

Rudderals to revere.
Revolts to run.
Plus songs to sing,
on a stage made for one.

(Photo of bag-buying flooz from Pexels Free Photos.)