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# Punditry Banditry
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/punditry-banditry/
- Published: 2026-01-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: As wisdoms go, conventional’s the worst. Best dress it up as ancient. That does better. Uncommon — when delivered and dispersed by graying talking heads who claim: Unfetter
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

As wisdoms go, conventional’s the worst.  
Best dress it up as ancient. That does better.  
Uncommon — when delivered and dispersed  
by graying talking heads who claim: Unfetter

your shallow thinking from its rigid past  
and benefit from our well-hidden knowledge.  
They grow alarmed, increasingly aghast,  
when challenged on the benefits of college…

Collect them, all these wisdoms, each a pearl,  
and worthy of its own consideration,  
then string the set together, to unfurl,  
depending on a given situation,

and offer one, as needed, to a fool  
The wise already have it, as a rule.

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