Henry David of Walden Pond fame...

still unanimously accepted
as synonymous name
linkedin for his advocacy
of simple living,
environmentalism,
and civil disobedience.

He Thoreau lee experienced
depth of nascent
politico-social despair
an influential American
transcendentalist author,
philosopher, and naturalist
best known for Walden,
a reflection on simple,
self-reliant living
at Walden Pond,
and his essay "Civil Disobedience,"
which advocated
for individual resistance
against unjust government actions.

Even now, I consider him astute
and without a shadow of a doubt
so would Punxsutawney Phil,
whose spurious reference
mentioned for no particular
rhyme nor, reason
except such rodent
will make his yearly prognostication
whether there will be
six more weeks of winter
ably linkedin to Groundhog Day
and doth boot
the erroneous presumption
that other species
wiser and more wonderful
than the bipedal hominid
ought to be considered, consociated
(joined, united, or linked together
in close association, partnership,
or fellowship), and consulted
like the Oracle of Delphi
ancient Greece's
most revered religious sanctuary,
dedicated to Apollo,
where the priestess,
the Pythia, delivered cryptic prophecies
about the future,
acting as a divine messenger
from the god,
influencing major decisions
in politics, war, and personal lives,
though her ambiguous words
required interpretation
and often led to debate,
which at that time
bestowed as the world's center (omphalos)
and a hub for intellectual
and spiritual guidance.

Faith in the intelligence
of other creatures great and small
unequivocally accepted
within mind of this boyish
good looking ole coot,
who rarely engages in a dispute
though with diplomacy doth execute
the art of persuasion
against the topic that Homo sapiens
corrupted after tasting
of thee Edenic fruit
essentially a metaphor,
whereby indiscriminate destruction
of once multitudinous flora and fauna
plus the very notion
of meting out demise to democracy
perfecting battle hymn of republic
at the same time
refining the art of warfare
intolerant against differently abled
such as eccentric, fool on the hill
or token teetotaling galoot
who does not give a hoot
about being the laughing-stock
why sudden flashback didst
kickstart metered metrical foot
when during contemplative bout
where might over-rules right
nasty marauding aggressors
assail with brutality I impute
they slaughter willy nilly
without giving a hoot
analogously harried and swiftly kicked
with barebones styled
and lordly tailored jackboot
just for kicks
and an exception
to my general aversion
to the cut-throat world
of competitive sports in general
and football in particular,
I mention Knute Rockne
(1888–1931), a legendary
Norwegian-American football player
and head coach
at the University of Notre Dame
(1918–1930) mainly renowned
for revolutionizing college football
with speed, the forward pass,
and the "Notre Dame Shift,"
he achieved a 105–12–5 record
and five undefeated seasons
setting the stage
when athletes receive
bucketfuls and truckloads of loot
even jump-starting, fostering
and conceding the point
that any objection
to reward pure
unadulterated talent moot.

Yours truly experienced
initial existential nihilist crisis
when on the cusp of puberty
and I yearned and hankered
to return to a fictitious boyhood
chock a block flush with bliss
and thought starving myself
(courtesy Anorexia Nervosa)
would freeze getting older
and retain remaining a lad.

Said eating disorder, sans
self starvation arose
without explicit explanation
this grown man tries
till he gets himself bluenose
to recapitulate an ill fate,
he conveniently chose
still baffled, thus
without aversion disclose,
silence of echoes
confidential matter
I willingly expose,
said trauma that
nearly did foreclose
emotionally mortgaged corporeal property
boarded figurative
windows, whereat up goes
for sale sign testament to
recalcitrant stalwart hard-nose
father and mother felt
obligation to interpose
lest premature demise,
would invariably juxtapose
dealing mortal psychological
(albeit unfair) blow
to parents plus two sisterly kid-doses
perhaps family pets (cats and dogs),
whose meows and lows
punctuating equilibrium
volunteering, (when sui generis
gripped stranglehold)
spurring personal tragedy
with sincere manifestoes
(mainly not a verse
to dabble with poetry)
striving to cater to non heroes
to thwart tragedy, whose nose
(mine) sniffs fallout mainly upon me
woe begotten life somber
(time to cue oboes),
asper the plethora of
influences that predispose
one in the throes
of adolescent experiencing
oh ma dog...gushing hormones
analogous to young lives
loose then taut like mama's yoyos.