What good are they?

What good are they?

Midges and sandflies

Mosquitoes are pointless

Leeches are stubborn creatures

But what are they good for

Other than as cauterizers

In blood-letting

Even maggots have their uses

Minor celebrities

Can escape a jungle

To relaunch a career

That may go nowhere

What of social influencers

Professing to impress

Gushing with positivity

Glowing with natural goodness

From the heart of swollen

Bank accounts

Fattened by endorsement

Stolen money washed clean

Of conscience

Laundered and pressed

Into the hands of numbered accountants

Twenty-year-old heroes

Fresh from selling a lie

Driving luxury cars

Into lamp posts

That get in their way

Thumbing cocaine noses

At the hoi polloi

Fools and horses alike

Who work hard

All of their lives

To be told

What they have learned

Counts for nothing

As pampered young things

Play the field

For the price of a mention

A product placement

Photo opportunity

Media darlings

Dispensing wisdom

Over a breakfast

Of Broccolini and seaweed

Shake

A wonder drug for the new age

Which must be true

As everyone is an expert

Except for a Phd

Who isn’t a real doctor

At least not an MD

What good are they

When they don’t say

What you want them to say

Give me a chef or an actor

With the X factor

To lead the way

From Twitter, TicToc and Youtube

To my very own

Teen spirited

Organically sourced

Freshly minted

Naturally aged

Sustainable

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