Punditry Banditry

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.

Author notes: image generated by author prompt to Gemini