Heilige Scheiße!

Ich hab viel zu lange gebraucht bis ich rausgefunden habe wo denn der Teppich ist und warum der Hofmaimaier hier seinen Durchfalldanebenschiss präsentiert.

Ach Michi, bist ein Guter. Dankeschön.

A local rendition of "Tratsch im Treppenhaus" in our local dialect in 2009.

I couldn't really concentrate on the wider play though, everybody kept looking at me when I entered the stage and said my lines.

Thank you ☺️

Ahh, yes, that is why I got a Coca Cola AD in my DMs!

The smallpox vaccine was only 95% effective, we still managed to get rid of that virus because enough people got vaccinated that it could not find enough vectors to remain alive.

The resurgence of measles in the US is absolutely because tje herd immunity is failing with not enough people vaccinated.

Peace has cost you your strength. Domestication has defeated you.

Bane voice Do you feel in charge?

Most expensive one I could find with a simple google search in Germany is € 12.54 per kg,
the ones pictured above are 680g, so for $ 7.49 that's $ 11.01 or € 9.55 per kg (at current exchange rate)

Average price for pasta sauce in Germany seems to be around € 4.50 / kg, but then the Rao's might be among the pricier sauces in the US?

Smokeless powder changed the world

Impression

The rhymes of limitation and causation start the entire poem of strong.

The underlying idea is great, I like how you play with 'will can't' and 'could won't' and the double meaning of will.

Critique:

And I will knów that you will wíll
And who knows whére you may stráy
For whére thére’s a wíll, there’s a wáy

I feel like that 'know' is left hanging, it has no rhyme connecting to it's rhythm, so the 'will' in the same line is without partner, maybe you could add a line to close it, like:

'a matter of want and not of skill'

I like the 'stray' and 'way' rhyme, additionally the words are thematically connected which gives the poem a very nice, round feeling ending.

But the speech-rhythm of 'where there's a will, there's a way' breaks with the established rhythms, it feels like the poem "stumbles" here. I understand you want to incorporate this popular saying, but I think the entire poem shows that you can do better than that.

Overall:

Themes are fitting and on point, I like the play with won't and can't, especially the 'where we could won’t' and 'that you will will' are very nice turns of phrase. The changing rhythm in the middle of the poem is not breaking the flow. I just think that 'you will will' is too nice to be left hanging and that the end is stumbling a bit where it should gracefully glide into the end.

I'm not talking about evidence, and I'm making no claim about evidence here. I'm talking about logic and reasons to have a specific conviction.

To believe in anything that I have no evidence for, would leave me believing in a million different and contradicting things. I don't have any evidence for the cosmic teapot, for the invisible pink unicorn or the flying spaghetti monster (Pesto Be Upon Him). And withholding judgement on the existence of pixies, wall-socket-kobolds, voltage-growing-trees and the Schinamarug is simply removed from practicality, because you cannot prove a negative, but in every day life I HAVE to act like there is NOT an invisible puppy everywhere where I want to step. For all intents and purposes, I KNOW there is no teapot orbiting Saturn and I KNOW there is no invisible pink unicorn. For these reasons it is illogical to withhold judgement on an existence that I have no evidence for AND absolutely no other reason to believe in.

Hard atheism is (in my opinion) simply the sane and practicable conviction. Because if you tell me "I'm not convinced there is a teapot orbiting Saturn right now, but there might be." Then I can only tell you that, no, if you think there might be a teapot orbiting Saturn right now, you're wrong, even without me having any evidence disproving it. And you can't tell me that my conviction that there definitely is no teapot in an orbit of Saturn right now, is in any shape or form unreasonable.