I’m really not out for an ego ride Till I have the measure of who’s by my side And then I’ll slowly press the pace Lead them into a tacit race
I’m struggling up this hill for now
But when I get to that far off brow
I’ll put my head down, get back in front
That will show I lead this hunt
But wait, wait, I’ve got it wrong I didn’t think they were this strong Perhaps round that corner the road is flatter But there again, why should it matter There is no reason I should lose face There is absolutely no disgrace After all I have nothing to hide I’m really not out for an ego ride.
N.B. Read in conjunction with ‘Espresso Delivery‘
(VeloScience, 5 February 2015).
In every coffee bean Lies a variable dose of caffeine Which blocks your adenosine Thus raising your catecholamine.
With adenosine you can’t tell But it’s present in every cell It chills things down, makes you less aroused You feel its effects whenever you’ve drowsed.
Catecholamines are for fight or flight But they can make you feel real uptight Adrenaline is one, that makes you act From every day frights we know this fact.
With caffeine our cerebral vessels constrict But you will still feel that you have it licked In fact you may feel deceptively fitter It affects more than one neurotransmitter.
Time to exhaustion can improve by a large amount Nearly 15 percent by the last count Sprinters and weightlifters need not apply Slow twitchers is where the advantages lie.
As potassium falls within the cell It rises in the blood which rings the bell That muscle fatigue has just got pending And lest you stop it will force an ending.
But caffeine improves the cell pump So your electrolytes don’t get the hump Thus blood potassium it decreases And all muscle cell activity it increases.
Heart muscle should always respond to action But caffeine ups its force of contraction And when it comes to your heart’s rate Like blood pressure, caffeine can it elevate.
There’s debate about caffeine’s role with fat Stimulating energy expenditure from that But fat oxidation is more likely with endurance Fast twitch muscle activity provides no such assurance.
And your need to pee may make you strained Because sodium and water are less retained But with time your body may adjust So that this becomes much less of a must.
In theory caffeine could your airways dilate So that your lungs can better inflate But for that the dose would need to be high And so for that effect let’s not try
So caffeine is a powerful drug That you put daily into your coffee mug It’s a psychoactive in a common bean With some of the effects of amphetamine.
Fake News comes the Trumpet call The faithful hear, they are in thrall Wield Fake News to smite them down For He now wears the media crown Apprentice star emits searing light Troublesome truths now burning bright Only He could fix all that was wrong For His people need a leader strong So Russian Bear now declared no thug Ursine brothers now embrace and hug.
And it’s Id and Ego who must be hired While the unbelievers must be fired Let ‘Art of the Deal’ the people inspire By spectral author not the artful liar Fake News press ‘enemy number one’ For they frustrate what must be done Fake News is what His people hears So filter messages and close their ears No briefings here for the media club He will forge his own fortress hub.
Like like some dark lord in his Tower From stormy skies He builds his power Summons lightning bolts to make a hit On all those ‘others’ who just don’t fit But yet it was He that took the prize As mainstream media cast their eyes On the actors playing by older rules Rejecting He from different schools And so Fake News plays useful part A fearsome weapon for spinner’s art.
So ‘wrong’ truths to false become recast Impervious armour against enemy blast For He knows how to ‘drain the swamp’ Assault their truths, proclaim His pomp Globalisation’s losers new Lords seek For the ‘deplorables’ see a future bleak And an ‘elite’ class sneering in contempt Until ‘deplorables’ let their anger vent Only their Apprentice star felt their pain From declining futures of excluded gain.
So new narratives found receptive ears Post-truth prescriptions to allay all fears The Fox now shaping the Trumpet notes Sound Spicy tweets to reach His votes By claiming conspiracies by the score That need rooting out from the core Defining new enemies of the State Let Him remake the country great Fake News comes the Trumpet call The faithful heard, He has the ball.
