Rhyme Me A Smile: regulations

Thursday, November 17, 2011

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The Internet has given us reasons to smile, laugh and cheer,

but also causes its fair share of crimes, squabbles and sneers.

It's no surprise there is a push to regulate pirating goons,

but what about the other world wide web wandering buffoons?

We tolerate Facebook groups that help spread chicken pox.

We "allow" compromising photos of celebrities and jocks.

We find our enemies and their fans trash talking and plotting.

We track the life of fast food that's not molding while rotting.

This information highway we share with the world

has caused our lives to be twisted and twirled

into a simmering supernova of opinions and ideas.

more valuable than all of the world's pizzerias.

on the websites making them a little less rich.

Their crack down might make an interesting movie plot,

but their ideas fail in reality more often than not.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

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Examples of irony in real life are amusing,

though generally simultaneously confusing...

the city named for a sainted animal fan.

They'll still allow them to be sold as food.

(Not exactly that for which Assisi stood).

The shelters workers are sad from flushing abandoned fish.

and making young hamsters sleep more soundly than they wish.

They seem to think their work is the ultimate proof

that people's love for animals vanished with a poof.

Their lives are not valued so sales should be banned?

To lend the furry, creepy and crawly a helping hand?

Perhaps they were people who couldn't find a landlord

unscathed to see a car plaque that says, "Paws on board!"

Maybe they also recently lost their house,

but previously would've cared for every last mouse?

A pet ban, to me, seems a little bit rash;

a way for the city to save lots of cash.

The silver lining, I suppose, is they haven't banned pets.

Yet if I lived there now I would have some regrets.

Finding a place to buy stuff for my cat and my turtle

would become more rare than little girls named Myrtle.

Plus, I love to visit baby rabbits and pups at the store.

Petting them is a past time I absolutely adore.