"Staying true to his previous work of giving voice to our innermost thoughts, Cynical Rhymes and Lullabies forces the reader to realize that none of us are immune to the necessity of identifying our vulnerabilities. Shining light onto our own experiences, thoughts, and secrets, David Synn paints pictures with his poems that create a graffiti mural of necessary truths and the human desire to mask our cynicism and dress it up as something else entirely. Not afraid to cut open the scarred covering over his incredible heart, David proves that we are all more similar than we would like to admit."-...