Stan Cooper
Cartoon by Don Hunt

I GUESS I’M NOT PROFOUND

Cartoon ©Copyright 2000 by Don Hunt When things are too abounding
With ideas too astounding
I find them most confounding
I guess I’m not profound

I am perhaps too fallow
And perhaps a little shallow
Which makes me somewhat callow
It’s clear I’m not profound

When things for me are hairy,
They seem to me too scary
I prefer the ordinary
Ordinary’s not profound

Of subjects too effusive
With ideas too elusive
I strive to be reclusive
To hide from what’s profound

My brain perhaps too plastic,
Can’t handle things too drastic
I’ll never be scholastic
My learning’s not profound

Representing less a threat,
Simple stuff I sometimes get
Seems to cause much less a sweat
Simple stuff is less profound

When it comes to concentration,
There is total resignation
To my total abdication
I escape from what’s profound

To keep me more at ease, please,
Don’t put me in a squeeze, please
Please listen to my pleas, please
You see, I’m not profound