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Fat-Cat-Wins!
Contributed by
screwge
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Saturday, 25th October 2008 @ 03:22:16 PM in AEST
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I think that we will redact
The prickly cactus
Among news—
The green-moneyed idols
With their fallacious flowers.
The pictures are big and bright,
But the text is squinty, spurious
At a certain slant, glinting
Conspiratorially—
Sharp as needles.
I see men bribed and poked,
Made stamps by the sun.
Made flat and heat-agreeable.
Petals festoon the green miles
Of callous plant, fibrous,
Tough as hide—Direct route to heaven.
The mission is all there (noble reporting).
The headlines straightforward.
But occasionally, a three-pronged attack:
Adjective-Noun-Verb,
And that pitchfork of a cactus—
Arms and head parallel—
Is Hell’s cruel allusion.
Reams of yellow feathers
Sparge a site.
Finches deign to the Earth—
Desert their coin-slot, thumbnail
Roman bathhouses.
Snakes ruffle a few feathers:
Fat-Cat-Wins!
Red-Devil-Surrenders!
Copyright ©
screwge
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2008-10-25 15:22:16]
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Re: Fat-Cat-Wins!
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by shelby on
Saturday, 25th October 2008 @ 05:56:09 PM AEST
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Intense write, I like
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Re: Fat-Cat-Wins!
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by tawakwan on
Monday, 8th July 2013 @ 01:58:31 PM AEST
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| Thanks,but using tricky words,(if they are words),doesn't make a poem good. Just be yourself,and remember the old adage,(Kiss). Keep it simple....Don't be a English teacher,just write. |
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