SIWOTI (the poem)

It's day one of Cuttlefish Pledge Week, so we dig into the vaults (or at least to before I was on Facebook or Twitter) for some of my favorites. What with ... well, everything, from post-election bickering, to Halloween costume nonsense, to "vaccination awareness week", to increasingly annoying opinion pieces I won't bother to link to, it is clearly time to revisit this one. Except, really, actually, in truth... I wasn't wrong.

Someone Is Wrong

…On The Internet,

And I won’t get to sleep for a while,

Cos I’ll stay up and fight if it takes me all night

When I know I am right and my coffee is strong

Because Someone Is Wrong!

…On The Internet

And the cases they cite are all lame;

I don’t mean to be picky, but hell, it’s not tricky,

Just google or wiki, you’ll see before long

Because Someone Is Wrong!

…On The Internet

And I’m not going to idly sit by!

What he says is a crock! So I’ll teach, tease, or mock

Till my internal clock thinks I live in Hong Kong

Because Someone Is Wrong!

…On The Internet

On a topic of interest to me,

And the rancor’s increased; I’m becoming a beast

And that glow in the East is becoming quite strong

Because Someone Is Wrong!

…On The Internet

Which I’ve stayed up the whole night to say

But his head is cement, and I’ve made not a dent

And one hundred percent of the gathering throng

Says that Someone Is Wrong!

…On The Internet

But it looks like they’re siding with him.

They are here not to cheer for the points I’ve made clear

On this fight I’ve used sheer force of will to prolong

Because Someone Is Wrong!

…On The Internet

It’s beginning to look like it’s me.

I can hardly admit that my logic is shit

But it doesn’t quite fit, ‘less I twist it a bit,

So defeated I sit, at the end of my wit…

Since time will permit, I will land one more hit:

Declare victory, quit, let that be my swan song,

Because Someone Is Wrong!

…On The Internet

Me.

image source XKCD, as if I had to tell you