Saturday, October 29, 2011

Words, no conversation



RAGE against the man
bail out Main Street
not Wall Street help
the 99% not the 1%

                                                Communists Alinsky-trained
                                                or Bill Ayres inspired 1960s
                                                wannabes where’s the RAGE
                                                against Dodd and Frank

destroy capitalism, aka
corporate welfare
control by economic
elites – leeches

                                                politics of envy, spite
                                                it’s the election isn’t it
                                                divide and isolate
                                                shameful – vermin

gilded moguls

                                                spoiled children
                                                indoctrinated by the NEA

criminals in suits
crapping on society
destroying the
middle class
pay my college loans

                                                rapists, thieves, hoodlums
                                                defecating on sidewalks
                                                destroying parks
                                                defacing monuments
                                                co-opted by the unions

Occupy!
Take over!
                                                Remove!
                                                Eradicate!

dangerous plot
to control
all wealth
conspiracy!

                                                dangerous ploy
                                                to win reelection
                                                cabal!

                        screams forcing
                        to extremes
                        the curtain tearing
                        the fabric unraveling
                       
it will all end
                        like it always ends
                        badly

This poem is submitted to the Saturday Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets. Today’s prompt is to poetically write a conversation with at least two sources talking. Or perhaps not talking, as int his case. To see more poems, please visit dVerse Poets.

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15 comments:

  1. Brian MillerOctober 29, 2011 at 3:42 PM

    the divide is greater than your margins...nice capture of this pivotal moment in our nation...

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  2. ClaudiaOctober 29, 2011 at 3:44 PM

    wow glynn.. great example for an anti-conversation...so true...sometimes it's words and no conversation..criminals in suits...

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  3. AnonymousOctober 29, 2011 at 4:54 PM

    you make it very clear in your poem, that there are many people saying the very same things about one another, only two perspectives. it's like standing in a crossfire.

    there needs to be more middle ground to make a circle instead of a line. Holy Ground.

    to have a conversation, there needs to be more than two similar yet opposite perspectives.

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  4. Louise GallagherOctober 29, 2011 at 6:05 PM

    Or perhaps, talking over eachother so neither hears.

    well done Glynn.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 29, 2011 at 6:12 PM

    great way to show the contrast in political vies. i loved the end, the middle of the roaders, and I really didn't expect that. veyr cool.

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  6. Laurie KolpOctober 29, 2011 at 6:17 PM

    A great example of the sad state of our country. I like how you arranged the piece left, right, and then middle... very cool.

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  7. MaryOctober 29, 2011 at 6:43 PM

    Not sure what to say in response. Don't quite understand the movement. Well expressed words, nonetheless.

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  8. dianaOctober 29, 2011 at 6:47 PM

    This prompt was intriguing - and you chose a fascinating way to go with it. Nicely done.

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  9. Maude LynnOctober 29, 2011 at 8:44 PM

    Absolutely excellent. I particularly love the title.

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  10. AnonymousOctober 29, 2011 at 9:17 PM

    Fantastic - a conversation with no middle ground

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  11. kaykualaOctober 30, 2011 at 2:54 AM

    Occupy Wall St is the war cry. The long suffering 99% folks had suffered enough. You cleverly brought it out in the open from all quarters! Great!

    Hank

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  12. hyperCRYPTICalOctober 30, 2011 at 5:43 AM

    Clever write and well observed illustration of the divide between the have and have-nots.

    And nobody listens to the other....

    Anna :o]

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  13. tinkwelbornOctober 30, 2011 at 6:02 AM

    not talking, indeed.
    accusations recriminations
    charges counter charges
    attacks counterattacks
    inculpations exonerations
    etc. et.al.

    good piece here….I like the structure, and the novel approach argumentation w/o conversation.

    bottom-line: will it turn out badly? wow…that's wide open.

    Like.

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  14. AnonymousOctober 30, 2011 at 12:58 PM

    nice take on the prompt

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  15. Karen Kyle EricsonOctober 30, 2011 at 7:15 PM

    This is very cool. "the curtain tearing the fabric unraveling" it is finished.

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