dr_con Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 We Didn’t Understand We didn’t understand what our desire meant To be one with To worship To serve To rule To embrace endless food To drink oil to be free basic needs well met but we have audacious kitschy artifacts Paleo-Christ, Buddha with an Ipod and Mohammed runs corner stores much to his embarrassment This is how far we’ve come after all that struggle Syria has hidden secrets you don’t want to occupy your front lawn Gnomes drenched in blood Cesar plays a fiddle while you go go GO! Kids know that freedom is the frontier unmolested But we have moneyfied even liberation among the daisies ragweed bamboo rebelling against manicured space offering us the lessons of bloom before our desire to commodify everything to win freedoms intrinsic I breathe out and wait for the inevitable price. since living has become rent to own. Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcmarti1 Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Beatnik, anti-war, propoganda.....I love it. And the word commodify. God be with you, Juris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Your skilfully worked imagery offers signposts for the reader to explore a variety of avenues. I'm left with a feeling of “so much taken for granted” and to coin a well-used phrase. It seems we generally “know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W. Parsley Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Viva la inspiration! Let it flow, Bro! - Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_con Posted September 15, 2013 Author Share Posted September 15, 2013 Thanks Guys! I'm glad you dug my little antiwar piece, and appreciated the images;-) Con/Jur/D Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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