Generalities Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Generalities have never appealed to me,
Specifically.
They seem to invite indecisive,
And a divisiveness this always feed...
To ultimately create debate,
And challenging arguments...
To never satisfy any solutions made.
Even if solutions are too obvious to evade.

And anyone seeking a peaceful existence,
To resolve with specifics to mention...
Would be better off avoiding to leave,
Wishes for a certainty with it agreed...
Left alone to know it wont happen.
Since few in a room full of people...
Desiring to end a continuing conflict,
By using deductive reasoning that offends.

'If we had the ability to be rational.
And recognized the benefits of common sense,
Why would we find the time to waste it...
By being petty and foolish?
Wouldn't that reveal we were concealing,
A pretentiousness? '

~Uh...uh...good question.
Had I known you all were rehearsing,
To perfect stupidity...
I would have left minutues ago,
When you had me convinced...
The reality of it had been accomplished.
With such disgusting believability.
To have achieved it and with success.~

'We have found conflicts,
To be a very lucrative profession.
You should consider it.
You're going nowhere being reasonable.
These are not the times,
People are wanting to use their minds...
Trying to find understanding.'