Freedom Of Reach
Look at your engagement levels, the number of impressions. You do your best but don’t inspire that many interactions. Step up your notoriety, speak out without a filter, flame against your haters, make them lose the will to. Live fast, die young, won’t change the world but have it large while you still can. You’re going to make the biggest splash in the tepid sea of Everyman. Deal with all dissenters today, there’s no tomorrow. Do it publicly, they’ll block you for it but others will follow. He who shouts loudest about freedom of speech, cannot demand certainty of reach.
- Category: Poetry
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Neville Hunt 4 months ago
Love this Lewis! (But left wondering if the categorisation of ‘Poetry’ is meant to signify poetic justice?)
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Sir Robin Kingfisher 4 months ago
Thanks, Neville. I don’t think too much about categorisation. I think I just used to call everything “General”. These days I find I’m inclining too much to rhyming. 😁
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Neville Hunt 4 months ago
You can never incline too much to rhyming, Lewis. When I was in the ad business... and later when I taught copywriting to undergrads, rhymes, alliteration and ‘the rule of three’ were three key devices for memorable and effective headlines, slogans and even body copy. ‘A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play’ even combines two of them, and didn’t that do well!
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Frenchie 4 months ago
Deep thinking. I am going to ponder on the last sentence.Loved it.
