JUL 8, defining opinion: expertise

a) Reprise from material posted on July 8 in previous years ...

2020: classic palindromes, gnu dung (illustrated poem)
2021: clot or not, pulmonary embolism (poem) 
2022: poets' corner, HELD, editorial state (poem)
2023: waterfowl, roseate spoonbills (illustrated poem)

a wildebeest (gnu)
photo:  B. Weinstock

b) Today's Offering (Jul 8, 2024): 

poetry lyrics: Norm's experience? Brief. No degrees:/ "My suave looks and bravado
 trump these./ I'll apply for the Cabinet (P'rhaps priesthood or rabbinate)./
 Staunch allegiance and loyalty/ May appeal to some 'royalty'./
  I'm straightforward; no fake expertise./ Let's discount the past question of sleaze./
 And the interview honcho agrees.   

Authors' Note: Norm's take on his employability, at some past point, would have been thought to smack of self-aggrandizement or worse, but appears in our time to be normalized.

Our series of blogposts, "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.