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Edgar Allen Poe wrote famously about the sound and emotional impact of "The Bells." Had he lived today, he might have penned "The Memes" I. Read the emails with their memes, Classic memes! Princes from Nigeria and other sordid schemes! ...

Babies dancing, dancing, dancing, Grainy cha-cha CGIs Lines of hamsters’ endless prancing, Spongebob squarepants now entrancing With a theme to bastardize

Epic fails, fails, fails As the poor, grape lady wails, As they conquer all your base with poorly-written subroutines From the memes, memes, memes, memes, Memes, memes, memes— From the scamming and the spamming of the memes

II. See the funny viral memes, YouTube memes! Ethernets exhausted by the cyberculture streams! Just download Adobe Flash, Watch until your laptops crash, It’s a trap! End of Ze World! We love each gag.

It’s the time for PBJ, Watching Strongbad, Badger Badger, Numa Yei, Cursing lag.

‘Till professions intervene, Keyboard cats and Rickrolls now monopolize the screen! Some are clean, Some obscene, Innuendos unforeseen, Which encumber our machines,

Now a vulture of the culture Of the memes, memes, memes, Of the memes, memes, memes, memes, Memes, memes, memes— The diffusing and amusing of the memes.

III. Scroll through countless snarky memes, Twitter memes! Harsh, discordant rancor and political extremes! #FirstWorldProblems oft-discussed As we #facepalm in disgust “Bye Felicia,” we assert, As our psyche grows inert And decays

The cacophonous polemics draw the mind into the mire With the paranoid endemic, postulations to conspire Spitting fire, fire, fire, In a flame war amplifier Willy Wonka’s condescension #Ermahgerd, the reprehension From Chuck Norris and old cliches

Oh the memes, memes, memes! How the vitriol demeans Is it fair? Grumpy cats we all adore Mixed with discourse we abhor And demotivation poster savoir-faire

So the zeitgeist is consumed And compiled, And defiled, ‘Till society is doomed Yet the comedy redeems, New profile, Gangam Style! So we #DealWithIt it seems The ad hominem recalcitrance fomenting tribal themes

Of the memes— Of the memes, memes, memes, memes, Memes, memes, memes, In the impulse and the insults of the memes

IV. Feel the power of the memes, Modern memes Damaging democracy and propping up regimes, Cash me ousside day or night, Neither gracious nor contrite Just the autocratic leaders we bemoan!

The despots’ every troll, Type the doom through which we scroll, On our phone.

And the users—ah the users— Both informers and abusers, Feel alone And who trolling, trolling, trolling, Like sadistic chaperones Grow addicted from the scrolling With no patch or methadone

Like a digital Rasputin Baby Shark and Shirtless Putin’ Clickbait holes Politician checks the polls, As he scrolls, scrolls, scrolls, Scrolls.

Investment sparked from memes! Buying stonks on hope and dreams, More investment sparked by memes! Elon speaks, the market screams

Killing time, time, time Of a youthful person’s prime We’re invested in the memes— Even teens

Killing time, time, time As we waste our precious prime, Pepe frogs infest our memes, All the memes, memes, memes, Cancel mobs infest our memes, Killing time, time, time, With our screens, screens, screens,

There’s a victim, not a crime, From cajoling of the memes, From the memes, memes, memes The controlling of the memes, Of the memes, memes, memes, memes, Memes, memes, memes The iniquity, ubiquity of memes

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