Today’s world is perceived as fraught with danger.  Linguists have determined that the more risk we believe society is in, the more we increasingly decline in adulting and the more we use words like “adulting”…

Adulting Conversation
by Michael Romani

It's a twix of a turn
As we live and learn
That words change with time
As does the world of rhyme

When the future felt like hope
We'd let out the rope
Bu, now it's not insulting
To say some would rather not be adulting

Backdoor fixes can be friends
With the best interest they intend
It's really not a danger
To make language a bit stranger

As the demands of our day
Find their un-intrusive way
Into the words we daily use
So long as they don't confuse

Here's the deal
It's about keeping it real
Going beyond our hunches
Instead of throwing verbal punches

That's the risk
To all of these tics
The purpose of communication
Is best met with fascination

With each new introduction
As we greet these new constructions
And these become the way we talk
Best accepted not met with a balk

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