Reply, To Questionable Scholars, Delayed These Forty Years

Some would be scholars questionably make wild assertions
but yet cannot offer support of just one cite;

because their research, if at all done, is too slight

or twisted to the purposes of their subversions,

which are the gloves upon their hard-clenched fists' coercions;

and when confronted they reply with fierce and fiery

denial toward a Christianly good-faith inquiry;

again, also, again---relentless repetition

that strives to put the honest truth into deletion.

 

Starward

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I wish I had thought of this forty years ago, during senior seminar, January-March, 1980.  Several of my classmates, like certain persons of my present acquaintance, enjoyed making assertions to source they either imagine or never bothered to cite.  Several of them believed that personal prejudice was a fair substitue for objectively cited sources in support.

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