Be True To Your Hebetude

Amazingly there isn’t a defence for being beset by 

indolence; while idleness is often disguised, when 

inactivity advises its clothed in a languor of sloth it 

is wise to see more than merely inertia or torpidity; 

heaven’s forbid - at best it is a form of remissness; 

so we digress, perhaps sagely, letting accusations 

of lethargy and languidness explain th’ negligence 

in this seminal instance wasn’t the key trait - 

To see shiftless, lifeless laxity displayed effectively 

in an otiose way makes th’ conundrum more of an 

amusement than ‘in-your-face’ attestations saying 

you’ve been played for the patsy; of course you’ve 

been - and by th’ best theatre comedian whom we 

commend by saying be true to your hebetude

© 2 May 2016, I. D. Carswell