The futile age old dream
Life clambers for the sun
A constant moving stream
The rabid and foaming run
Expel the curdled cream
For work has just begun
A welcome sight to feast
Pockets full of tendons
Crammed down throats deceased
The retching sound heard reckons
Feed the newborn beasts
Unknowing the time beckons
Honey drops a taste to trial
On mangled teeth with force
Inevitably sweet turns the bile
meals enamoured with remorse
Rot and shape to form denial
Morbidity is now the course
Surveying the viscera by worth
With puckered eyes unblinking
Guzzled by the gallon from birth
Caught in the joyful act of winking
By offering the masses their mirth
You remove the burden of thinking
Packaged products fly by night
Each over processed by degree
A raw surge waves against right
Harps the notes upon the sea
Savour each morsel sound bite
Delivered to homes thought free
Weekly Theme:
Archive Week
First published:
31/07/19
This one has quite the warning… or is it a comment on the state of civilization? Either way an excellent poem!!
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Think it has a bit of both murisopsis! ๐๐
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A bit of both and a few other things mixed in. Thank you, glad you enjoyed.
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I agree, and well worth the second airing.
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Thanks. Although this archive week was my lowest week for readers in a year ๐ค people can watch friends reruns a hundred times but I do it once… ๐๐คฃ
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Readers can be as fickle as fashion ๐
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This is an excellent poem Mouse with so many wonderful lines that hit right to the bone! ๐โค๏ธ๐ But 2 lines which stood out to me in particular were:
“By offering the masses their mirth
You remove the burden of thinking.” ๐โค๏ธ๐
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Thank you. I was a little bitter about something, can’t remember what in particular made me write this.
Funny, when you take those two lines it makes me think if brave new world. ๐
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Great poem with a dire warning. Great job.
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Thank you ๐
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Truth is so unpleasant that we avoid it.
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Good to read one of your longer form poems. Your captioned photo does justice to the dire warning expressed in your poem about our thoughtless human consumption.
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For goodness sake…*dramatically throws paper into the air*
This is blooding outstanding Mouse ๐๐๐๐ Damn! Really glad you’re sharing some of your past work.
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Whoaaaaaa….fn whoa
I feel your words….or use to feel this very prose.
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So good ๐๐๐ค๐ค
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Thank you ๐๐
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Scary at first, at the end it was worth the read โค๏ธ
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Thank you. A little darker than what I write now ๐
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Okay dear, I’ll check em out later
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