Resisting the Trend.

Since time immemorial, the word ‘trend’ has been only a noun. When did it become a verb? Who made it so? As far as I can tell, people like Facebook and Twitter made it so.

Do I like that? Not really, mainly because I’m a serious detractor from the sort of shallow, brainless stuff that modern culture serves up these days. At the same time, however, I approve of language evolving, and so I’m in a quandary. I expect I’ll get used to it one day.

This trending’s offending

The bleak, never ending

Reluctance of Luddites

Like me

To go with the bending

Of pressures descending

To levels so shallow

And twee

And so I’m pretending

To scoff, while ascending

To rarefied places

And be

The one condescending

(While only suspending

The urge to be cool

And agree)