"From the top" doesn't mean just the President. It also applies to parents in their homes, leaders in their businesses, politicians in their constituencies, programmers on television, producers of movies, athletes on or off the field, activists in private places, or anyone pushing divisive agendas. The internet has become a cyber-bully. Quite often, those very people decrying bullying in schools, are doing it on the internet, or even in public themselves.

This is a Dactyl Poem
A Dactyl Poem is a verse, often used in Greek or Latin. While a Trochee is the opposite of an iamb, a Dactyl is the opposite of an Anapest. A Dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight. In accentual verse, often used in English, it is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.

iambic - da Dum, da Dum
trochaic - Dum da, Dum da
anapestic - da da Dum, da da Dum
dactylic - Dum da da, Dum da da

For this poem, I tried to maintain a line with a 10 syllable meter and a cadence like:
Dum-da-da Dum-da-da Dum-da-da-Dum

This photograph was taken by the author himself on December 2, 2012 at a Dinosaur exhibit in St. Paul, Mn.

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