(SR) Humanology: Age I
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LOVEPARTNERS
Lovers’ chemistry lightning strikes;
Random! Miraculous! Irresistible!
Deem darlings’ syrupy discourse
Dreamy, celestial honey
Couples cuddling thro’ sleep
Beloved upon waking
Remembering anniversaries solidifies lovetrysts
If giftladen, especially
Potential lovepartners’ unpredictable personalities
Like lucky dips
Cupid creates romantic twins
For every soul
Like dressing without mirrors
Smittenness masks faults
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LOVING
Tho’ shade alleviates sunblaze,
Cupid’s scorches unshieldable
Cupid launches ‘unsinkable’ Titanics
Across stormy oceans
Exists no earthly remedy
Alleviating rampant lovesickness
Deeds best communicate love
Not mutable words
Betwyx flusterfuck & fortitude
Oscillate loving hearts
Obeying love’s discoveries easy
Staying loved, problematic
Imagining our lovers, constantly,
L’amore’s unwritten law
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QUARREL
When emotional fencing finishes
Let lovesex reunite!
Eyes consum’d by love-rage;
Restless, sleepless, lidless
An honest, well-timed compliment
Banishes ridiculous quarrelling
Resolving arguments before bedtime
Avoids caustic nightsulking
Screeching voice, beseeching eyes
Love’s vulgar weapons
When lovers soothe us
Why pretend unpleasantness
Swab perspiring, contentious foreheads
With apologetic handkerchiefs
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AMABANDON
If amabandon’s a battle
Reunition’s victory banquet
Acute agonies of amabandon
Surpass grief’s lamentations
Between lovers fearing separation
Even intercourse painful
We’re alive when loving
But separation murders
Being far from love-partners
Possesses certain charms
Spectres of absent lovers
Haunt emotional hours
When absent darlings return
Brutal agonies evanish
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HANKERING
Desperately pining for love-partners
Precludes present positivity
Skulking shoulders? Loosened jewels?
Partners are departed
Come eventide’s fetid desperation,
Separated sweethearts inconsolable
Morning resuscitates discarded darlings
Evening murders again
Aching for absent lovers
Smothers our existence
Languishing hearts swell enraptur’d
Imagining returning lovers
Anxiously awaiting absent amourettes
Days become weeks
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JEALOUSY
Partying lovepartners jawdroppingly dress’d,
Mindmonkeys imagine infidelities
Declaring jealouseans; ‘The Loveliest,’
Earns; ‘Among whom!’
‘I thought of you!’
Earns, ‘You forgot!’
Jealousy’d drgon slays love
Pretending its defending
However pleasant one’s personality
Jealousy operates independently
If loving sensitive jealouseans
Reinforce affection daily
Jealousy tarnishes garden hearts
Insecurity’s neurotic weeds
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WEDLOCK
Marriage blends bitter barrels
With sugary honeylicks
Marriages need spotless beginnings
Otherwise murkiverse torments
When prospecting for spouses
Examine potential in-laws
Wives lacking domestic excellence
Life’s irresponsible chaff
Marry women for virtues
Comeliness collapses eventually
Our best married men
Woo wives constantly
Each ass-kissing, sycophantic husband
Embarrasses his sex
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FAMILIES
Entertaining one’s many relations
Prosperity’s priceless advantage
Efficient families stoically bare:
Burdens, hardships, misfortunes
Families nurturing internal hatred
Unite only superficially
Remain impartial within kinfighting
Interference rebounds volatilistic’ly
Even honorable law-loving judges
Avoid domestic disputes
Deem family-ties sturdiest trees
Bendable, but unbreakable
Between frightening fraternal quarreling
Refrain from interferance
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HOUSEHOLD
Prudently investigate potential neighbours
Before moving houses
Before establishing civic democracy
Liberate one’s household
Households extending benevolent hospitality
Surmount domesticity’s pinnacle
Happily entertaining streaming guests
Applaud above glory
Crofts of honest happiness
Lofty as Olympus
Never discuss home affairs
About village piazzas
Daily onstruct family improvements
Delay destroys households
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CHILDREN
Deem newborn infant minds
Morn’s untrammell’d snow
Voices of giggling nestlings
Sweeter than flutes
First leaders of families
Our smallest young
Intelligence of treasur’d offspring
Spreads pleasures immeasurably
Where infants fear phantams
Adolescents fear unpopularity
Older women craving babies
Seek winter figs
Our most wonderful offspring
Obey parental edicts
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PARENTING
Like greenwood burning badly
Pamper’d babies rebel
Chasten errant, immature offspring
Hope remains eternal
When children mature successfully
Households deepen foundations
Parenthood’s problems need perspective
Avoid unrealistic expectations
When children blossom adultwards
Contentious changes inevitablis’d
Granting teenagers plentiful independence
Demands increasing watchfulness
Parents merrily spoiling children
Raise lazy adults
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ADULTERY
Because faithful chastity exists,
Why gulag wives?
As knives gouge backs
Bedswerving scours relationships
Those lustfully gazing elsewhere
Commit adultery… still
Sorrows surround straying spouses;
Solicitors, sinfulness, shame
Wooing best friends’ partners
Generates social armageddon
Deflecting opportunistic sexual predators
Fortifies spousehood’s especialness
Couples comprehending property-owning rights
Disnecessitate infidelity’s folly
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LOVELOSS
Doubt, jealousy, deception, cliché:
Ruins romantic irresistibility
Only ‘occasionally’ ‘playing away’
Amputates septic relationships
Phantasms of happiest moments,
Haunt terminated romances
Lovesessives moodily ruminating communications
Never achieve closure
Oftentimes sweetest of lovers
Become strangers, eventually
When lovers’ hearts harden
Tearwells dry, disinterestedly
Untruthful pledges, broken promises
Fractures erodable love
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DIVORCE
Unloving, unstimulating, unscrupulous spouses
Offer only security
Wedlock trundling without lovemaking
Troubles sorrowful lifetimes
Multiple disappointing, sequacious marriages
Linger until death
When separation seems certain
Understand childrens’ helplessness
If pains outnumber benefits
Dissolve unsatisfactory marriages
Houses of fainéant procrastinators
Dilapidate, then divorce
When aftermaths augur unbearably,
Propose divorces cautiously
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LABOUR
When making good beginnings
Future workloads halv’d
Better passing idle days
Before working profitlessly
Empolyers offering advance payment
Invite bad work
Employers lazily delegating workloads
Cannot incompetence complain
Industriousness accumulates beaconic wealth
Idleness attracts impoverishment
Hunger eggs everybody on
Slothfulness eats stones
Great pains, little gains
Makes workers weary
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MONEY
Without watchtowering one’s wealth
Money wanders squanderingly
Thieves never experience shame,
Only wealth’s captivation
Money speculated invites windfalls –
Money sav’d, thieves
Happiness dependent upon money
Never proper happiness
Money attracts effervescent friendship
Poverty, fetid solitude
Gathering cash-quisition melts eventually
Like music festivals
Integrity proudly unfurls prosperity
Dishonesty – Switzerland’s Banks!
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BUSINESS
Object utility increases value
Commodity rarity moreso
When rogues assist businesses
Finances vanish mysteriously
Upon prospective, far-off profits
Defer serious investment
Creditors possess longest memories,
Debtors insist forgetfulness
Cornfields tended far away
Decimated by crows
Sellers have single eyes,
Buyers one hundred
Deem shopkeepers social servants
Whose customers, kings
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WEALTH
One famous painter’s painting
Worth twenty hospitals!
One tiny, flaw’d diamond
Outprices perfect pebbles
Present happiness, future blisses
Nemesis poverty deprives
Lurking behind miserable poverty
Many more miseries
Charity seeking no reward,
Oceans giving rain
Ancestral inheritances diligently preserv’d
Scoundrels rapidly squander
Whenever heirlings recklessly squabble
Strangers inherit estates
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CHARITY
Charity seeks no recompense –
Who reimburses clouds?
However gorgeous, however fabulous,
Uncharitable people pointless
Mendicants melt umbrageous hearts
Refusal breaks theirs
Never beg unwilling givers
Even when desperate
When soliciting happy supercharitables
Begging actually giving
Before openly charitable souls
Vagrancy’s anguish vanishes
Whenever Heaven rain retains
Charity abandons Earth
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SCROOGES
Niggards never spending money
Rarely invited anywhere
When death’s lightning demolishes
Money becomes unspendable
Moody scrooges procrastinating charity
Die shameful deaths
Money hoarded only numbers
Money spent, magic
Scrooges lead confus’d lives
Addicted to accumulation
Strangers eventually enjoy vaultopias
Like beautiful daughters
Hoarders hope eventual heirs
Won’t spend inheritances
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