Poetry
"Whatever" Words
Adages you
grow up by,
Labeled as clichés today.
Looked at with a scornful eye;
Too preachy in the modern day.
An ever ready
rebuke in place;
"Whatever" to say all you mean.
Wisdom dodged with elegant grace,
(pretentious but) "hep" you seem
But "oh
my god", what will happen when
"Whatever" itself goes out of style?
What(ever) will you reply with then,
Without your tri-syllabic guile?
A "cool"
new word will be coined.
Same vacuity it will convey;
When "whatever" gets over-toiled
And is classified as a cliché.