Intellectous

By EleCivil

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1. When you try to speak
2. Your words squirm in my ear.
3. Even before your meaning hits me
4. I’m afraid that it’s clear:
5. Though you’re not bad enough
6. To make my mind itself shrink
7. When I wake tomorrow morning,
8. It’ll burn when I think.
9.  
10. But you’re still chatting me up,
11. This is a bad situation;
12. Who knows what I’ll catch from
13. Unprotected conversation.
14. This is risky behavior
15. But you think you’re profound;
16. I wish you’d hold your tongue
17. But still you wag it around.
18.  
19. I don’t know where you got it
20. But the outcome’s the same:
21. You just gave me a terrible
22. Rash on my brain.
23.  
24. Listening to you has left
25. Its mark on my mind
26. That’s not a compliment –
27. Your words are like parasites.
28. I hope that there’s an injection
29. Or a topical cream
30. That can cure this infection
31. That you’ve given to me.
32.  
33. It makes me think things
34. That I know just aren’t true
35. It makes me do crazy things
36. Like keep talking to you
37. It makes me want to pry open
38. The top of my head
39. And claw at the grey matter
40. ‘Till the symptoms are dead
41.  
42. I don’t know where you got it
43. But the outcome’s the same:
44. You just gave me a terrible
45. Rash on my brain.
46.  
47. Now, I dream of a day
48. When Earth is idiot-free
49. And in preventing the spread,
50. Education’s the key.
51. So the moral of the story
52. If you’ll allow for suggestions:
53. Don’t talk to strangers without
54. Some kind of protection.
55.  
56. The surest way to avoid
57. The pain of stupidity
58. Is to avoid it’s prime source:
59. You know, humanity.
60. But for those that must converse,
61. Please be safe. Like, for starters,
62. Get your IQs tested,
63. Both yourself and your partners.
64.  
65. I know we can prevent it
66. But for now it’s a shame:
67. You just gave me a terrible
68. Rash on my brain.