Who do I blame for importing the "high five"...

Childish palm slapping - like kids on the skive!

What happened to the respect of the pat on the back

Or the nod and the shaking of hands?

Now it's high fives and hugs

Like punks high on their drugs

Or those posturing scruffbags in bands!

Folk who've achieved their mature years

Now clap hands like kids with far fewer years

Eagerly bendy in their wish to be trendy, 

Do they hear cheers - or jeers?!

As for any placatory

Excuse it's just celebratory,

It strikes me that its gist

Is triumphalist!

(Note how:the habit now seems mandatory!).

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