{"id":2835,"date":"2025-02-13T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2025-02-20T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:36:16","slug":"common-sense-returns-aka-the-avant-gardist-ends-the-culture-of-uncommon-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2025\/02\/13\/common-sense-returns-aka-the-avant-gardist-ends-the-culture-of-uncommon-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense Returns (aka &#8211; The Avant Gardist Ends the Culture of Uncommon Sense)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Have at Thee!&#8221; \u2013 the Avant-Gardist alarum&#8217;d with tongue of fire; <br>threatens Thee to change \u2013 adopt \u2013 or tariffs will go higher. <br>And on many an&#8217;other fronts, disturbs all shopworn brabble, <br>inter&#8217;upts th&#8217; endless twattlin&#8217;, caus&#8217;eth Thee to scramble. <br>Exhaustive goals seem to be, set each upon the gad; \u00a0<br>but dost Thou as other prey have found? \u2013 soon Thee will be had! <br>For &#8217;tis a straight and simple sleight, each threat a spot to start. <br>Whence will th&#8217; untaught learn&#8217;eth, wheelin&#8217;-dealin&#8217; is an art? <br> <br>But doubters query why we be hexed with flighty trumpery; <br>why disrupt and snarl it all? \u2013 and so ruthlessly? <br> <br>Its thugs and thieves amidst th&#8217; masses fr&#8217;m our open borders, <br>ignore the laws, thus we knaves and daws, lived in want of order. <br>Then ther&#8217;s th&#8217; Prince who doth believe&#8217;th, he&#8217;s a fair y&#8217;ung maiden <br>and in the test of str&#8217;ngth he wins, his vict&#8217;ry glib and craven. <br>And unions reign&#8217;d o&#8217;er th&#8217; parents, the off-spring pay th&#8217; price. <br>And yank the plug on fossil fuels, only EVs will suffice. <br>And foreign foul-ups take th&#8217; trophy \u2013 consider Abby Gate \u2013 <br>releasing prisoners and stranded weapons &#8211; give rise to tragic fates. <br> <br>Ah&#8217; we wast stonkered \u2013 hath heaved the gorge!! We curs&#8217;d uncommon sense!! <br>With our elected Avant-Gardist \u2013 we seek our recompense. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:02092025 <br>therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Have at Thee!&#8221; \u2013 the Avant-Gardist alarum&#8217;d with tongue of fire; threatens Thee to change \u2013 adopt \u2013 or tariffs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2025\/02\/13\/common-sense-returns-aka-the-avant-gardist-ends-the-culture-of-uncommon-sense\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Common Sense Returns (aka &#8211; The Avant Gardist Ends the Culture of Uncommon Sense)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-verse-blank-verse-fractured-elizabethan","category-general-observations","category-post-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}