Is it bad form to criticize the consumer economy at a time of economic difficulty?

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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?

Semp-listic! · Accepted Answer

I
Absolutely
Loved
This
!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous · Answer

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 Ã©s 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.
.
.

Mizzy · Answer

Hows about

A Serve Us Society

? · Answer

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 !

Яα∂íǚм Яα∂íατǿſ · Answer

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"

Anonymous · Answer

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"

mtheoryrules · Answer

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!"

Anonymous · Answer

It's like diving into a pool of metamorphosed lies.

jenny · Answer

Good ! pen
goodness needed, not goods.
needs are needed, not wants!
"Waste not, want not."

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Is it bad form to criticize the consumer economy at a time of economic difficulty?

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