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Responsibility
Wouldn't there be a pervasive tranquility
If more people showed some responsibility?
For example, why is it that people can sue
A restaurant--let's say a certain drive-through--
After spilling in their lap the coffee they'd bought,
And then claim that their coffee had been too hot?
Since coffee can be hot, why haven't they learned
That if you aren't careful, you can get burned?
This makes me wonder about the futility
Of expecting societal responsibility.
Consider the people about whom you've heard mention
Who amble along without paying attention
With their eyes and thoughts on their cellular phone,
Fall into a fountain, and then afterwards moan
And gripe about how it was stupid because
The fountain should not have been where it was!
This, too, suggests the likely futility
That some will ever show responsibility.
There are also those people in parking lots
Who leave shopping carts by their parking spots--
Instead of finding the appropriate places--
And then speed away as if off to the races
While the carts roll through the lot and mar
The paint job on somebody else's car.
Again I wonder: is it a futility
To expect to see personal responsibility?
And another thing...ugh...I have a fit
When I'm out for a walk and I step in dog s--t!
All right, maybe it's true I'm not hep,
And I know I have to watch where I step,
But tell me, is it laziness or what
That some people can't clean up after their mutt?
Does it also to you seem a futility
To expect in others some responsibility?
I could give you another example
For believe you me, I have ample.
But let me step down from my soap box. Okay?
And do forgive me if I've been risqué.
You're certainly not in the line of fire,
For I'm sure I am preaching to the choir.
My point today--well, that's easy to see--
Is all about responsibility.
(6-14-14)
If more people showed some responsibility?
For example, why is it that people can sue
A restaurant--let's say a certain drive-through--
After spilling in their lap the coffee they'd bought,
And then claim that their coffee had been too hot?
Since coffee can be hot, why haven't they learned
That if you aren't careful, you can get burned?
This makes me wonder about the futility
Of expecting societal responsibility.
Consider the people about whom you've heard mention
Who amble along without paying attention
With their eyes and thoughts on their cellular phone,
Fall into a fountain, and then afterwards moan
And gripe about how it was stupid because
The fountain should not have been where it was!
This, too, suggests the likely futility
That some will ever show responsibility.
There are also those people in parking lots
Who leave shopping carts by their parking spots--
Instead of finding the appropriate places--
And then speed away as if off to the races
While the carts roll through the lot and mar
The paint job on somebody else's car.
Again I wonder: is it a futility
To expect to see personal responsibility?
And another thing...ugh...I have a fit
When I'm out for a walk and I step in dog s--t!
All right, maybe it's true I'm not hep,
And I know I have to watch where I step,
But tell me, is it laziness or what
That some people can't clean up after their mutt?
Does it also to you seem a futility
To expect in others some responsibility?
I could give you another example
For believe you me, I have ample.
But let me step down from my soap box. Okay?
And do forgive me if I've been risqué.
You're certainly not in the line of fire,
For I'm sure I am preaching to the choir.
My point today--well, that's easy to see--
Is all about responsibility.
(6-14-14)
