Ignorance And Arrogance [rev.] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Never been good at remaining unaffected
by wilful ignorance and arrogance based
on nothing, even ‘best recommendations'
substantiated it makes me mad, so when
an arrogant and loud young person takes
over my home, makes derogatory remarks

About everything I love my nerves fray as I
find its self-righteous face so insupportable
I feel murderous - my secret indulgence -
listening to German music, is relegated to
the mentally insane by this ingénue who
states German music is only Ram Stein

Just like the idiot declaring Amira superior
to Maria Callas when her rendition merely
is an incomplete copy of a perfect Callas
original, if people make such remarks my
spirit is perturbed; I don't know how to
stay calm in face of so much

Self-opinionated stupidity….


[ORIGINAL: ]

Never been good at remaining unaffected
by wilful ignorance and arrogance based
on nothing, even based on the best recom-
mendations it still makes me mad, so when
an arrogant and loud young person takes
over my home, making derogatory remarks

About everything I love, my nerves are frayed
as I find the self-righteous face insupportable
and I feel murderous; my secret indulgence -
listening to German music in the kitchen, the
only place where the radio can receive that
station, is relegated to the mentally insane

By this ingénue who states that only Ram Stein
can make German music; just like the idiotic guy
who declared Amira so much better than Maria
Callas, when her rendition is a just an incomplete
copy of the perfect Callas original - when people
speak in such a way my spirit is perturbed

I don't know how to stay calm in the face of
somuch self-opinionated stupidity…

[28 December 2014]