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Who Needs Rhetorical Devices!

Belated thanks to John Gilbert Ellis for the last line.

https://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/johngilbertellis

 

Who needs rhetorical devices!

asked the philosopher from Devizes,

as his latest theory crystalises!

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rhetoric   philosophy

Who Needs Rhetorical Devices!

Asked the philosopher from Devizes.

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philosophy   rhetoric   Devizes

Strictly Baroque

You were always exuberant and daring

Rhetoric came easily from your lips

Your overstatement was a joy to behold

Those endless aphorisms smart as whips

 

Strictly baroque, strictly baroque

Your theatricals would provoke a saint

That dress sense was a riot of colour

Not even Versailles had more paint

 

Over-ornamentation was your undoing

You talked like a modern Bern...

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baroque   rhetoric   theatricals   versailles   Bernini   Bellini   rococo

WIZARD KILLER

Visions of the future,
Dreams of reality,
Our plane of existence,
Relies on duality,
The controllers of this world,
A separate ruling class,
I see through their bullshit,
The language of the looking glass,
Symbols and language,
Are the key to understanding,
The lies and deceptions,
And the trauma-based programming,
Rhetoric and satire,
The weapons of the wizard,
Words truly are magic...

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deception   doublespeak   launguage   lies   life   programming   rhetoric   speaking truth   the ruling class   the world   truth   Wizard killer   Wizards   word magic   words

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