The Sage Speaks

I'm always happy to see Jenny's Saturday Centus roll around again, and this week I am having a bit of fun with the prompt (shown below in red). We're supposed to use no more than 103 words, which puts me at five too many, but I'm hoping Jenny will grant me a little poetic license...

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The Sage Speaks

©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson

You hold forth in your wisdom 

as if truth began with you,

each argument refuted by

your worthy point of view.

No other man's experience

remotely matches yours.

Let others curb their tongues or

be revealed as crashing bores.

Why must they prattle on and on,

when your premise is clear?

These cretins ought to show respect

and lend a listening ear.

Let every upstart quaff the cup

of knowledge at your feet.

May all drink deeply of your words

and find the nectar sweet.

But as for me, I must defer,

though all the world's in awe.

For every time you speak, I fear

that I hear blah, blah, blah.

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