INTELLIGENT FOOLS: a sonnet

INTELLIGENT FOOLS: a sonnet


Among the fools some are intelligent
But their IQ washes out common sense.
They argue like a man belligerent
And of genius keep up a pretence.

First of all they question a stated fact,
But when it is well confirmed from the book,
They change tactics and display a mean tact,
Saying that the opponent is a crook.

That’s why it is said: don’t argue with fools;
In doing so you can never win them.
They throw on you vile and slippery tools
And verily cause a mental mayhem.

In general fools are rather a curse
But the intelligent ones are much worse.


M C Gupta
8 April 2009