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Is it bad form to criticize the consumer economy at a time of economic difficulty?
THE ECONOMY STUPID
heads fattened
eyes glazed honey
sweetened dripping
stunned by the baton
of gimme, the herd of
consumers is led
onebyonebyoneby
hoisted feet-first in
Madison Avenue chains,
gutted green-splattered
frenzy into the mawl*
of Insatiable Commerce.
ground round,
and round and round
on the corporate
calliope carousel
grill.
*mawl (a coined word) = maw + mall
(somehow I don't it will do as well as 'chortle')
Can you suggest a better title?
9 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You wrote (oxymoron not)
what I have been thinking
about
for like,
well days.
Newspapers here show
really large and extra plus-sized
people in the expanse of YOU és Aye
gearing up to shake
pocket linings for
a shiiit-load or worthless crap,
simply because PR
say's it's ... (politically correct)
black...dot.dot.dot
Friday.
My 33 spins
Beattle's
white album
but...
you can be my baby
even if
you're black or
white
tee hee, omg, jk....
some of my best friends
are soccer players.
.
.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
heheh (i thought was another put down of me and my form structure poetry...)
releaved to find a poem. and an original one in a new topic. cool. =)
The herd of consumers, like startled cattled , go where led when panic indicators used deliberatly say panic, and all-is-calm soothing wrist-pats offer false security. Consumer responsibility to look beneath the facts to find the truth. neat poem !
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- Яα∂íǚм Яα∂íατǿſLv 71 decade ago
Wow... reading that I got some fairly gross images in my head, but obviously that's the intention and those metaphors work really well. I can identify with what you mean, I've never appreciated the consumer culture as much as others I know.
A title... maybe "Mass Exchanges, Cyclic Commodities"
Source(s): This reminds me of a poem called Vultures by Chinua Achebe - although it is on a different topic, the format and language used is similar: http://www.mahmag.org/english/worldpoetry.php?item... - Anonymous1 decade ago
and it's one, two, three
what are we fighting for....oh, sorry...wrong war
I want it all
and I want it now
and I want a tanker of diesel
and a match, please
my late brother once said...
let it go, man...all of it
it's weighing you down
materialistic images of a life you never lived, man (he said man a lot)
Katrina granted me his wishes...
I don't shop often these days, but when I do....I think of how much I won't miss it, when it's gone
thanks for the word
EDIT: oh, the title..."Honey Glazed Fat Eyes"
- mtheoryrulesLv 71 decade ago
Consumerism is how the masses invest
it is not that system that fails
so much as how we fail the system
"if it aint fixed, break it!"
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It's like diving into a pool of metamorphosed lies.
- jennyLv 71 decade ago
Good ! pen
goodness needed, not goods.
needs are needed, not wants!
"Waste not, want not."