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Gadfly

I ask rhetorical questions

People say I’m arguing,

I’m trying to be friendly,

Not prying, not incisive.

Just curious in a Socratic

Way, but it squeezes fury

Out of the hoi-polloi.

Elicits a squirm, an

Interrogatory paranoid

Response preparing them

To initiate a fencing

Position unintended

On my part. I wonder?

O what have I unlidded

Or ignited in their cauldron

That would have them

Foist such vehemence

Upon me. Lesson! Never

Ask questions demanding

A response, no matter

How innocuous a gadfly

You may appear to be.

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