Specious ... Tip

Today’s word is “specious” ...  apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible. (Dictionary.com)

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You weigh them in a scale,

       balanced somewhere in your brain,

Arguments for this and that,

     sometimes tipping up

           sometimes down.

Facts that are specious.

Facts that seem plausible.

And emotions that don’t seem

     to help at all.

Everything you read, or hear, or watch

     falls into one side or the other.

Except those pesky items that don’t

     fit ...

Those get tossed aside to be

     dealt with later ...

But they niggle and nudge,

     annoyingly. Trying to get your

           attention. Waiting to be

                  heard.

Wanting to be the last word. 

     The final word. The word that

          gives you peace.

Anne Selleck

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