Young Ones Trapped in the World Wide Ebb of Knowledge and Fun

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What if it isn’t popular?  What if

It isn’t pushed by TitTok entities,

Those Web influencers?  Then young ones sniff

Or worse, are ignorant as lice and fleas

Upon the body lunatic of Web

Stupidity.  A Hindu myth retold

Ten zillion times is dead if no celeb

Is pointing to it.  Antique Greek tales told

For eons are an unreal tree that falls

Within an unreal forest.  Then when no one hears

It, it’s unreal.  An ancient epic calls

Out loudly but it falls on deafened ears.

  Not even Golden B/Hollywood’s enough

    For young ones.  Sterling Screen delights are guff.

© Phillip Whidden