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How We Are Warned by Lotophagi
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How We Are Warned

~ Lotophagi ~

“I feel like I’m suffocating in here.”
That’s because you’ve got a handkerchief stuck in you mouth…


Don’t eat too much
you might start to look healthy.
People could be watching
you'd better stay inside today,
the weather’s warm
and Temptation begs you to play.
Take all the vitamins you can,
if you can get your hand on
something a little stronger
prescription drugs are the way to walk
because when you undergo
the eleventh (successfully) failed suicide
you won’t be charged with illegal possession
– and damn the country’s
lack of official repression in regards to local recession.

Don’t eat meat, fruit, or vegies,
they'll have too much protein, too much iron,
and insufferable amounts of untabletised energy.
If you’ve any conscious at all
you'll never touch honey or milk
because the bees that made the honey
and cows that gave the milk
are merely victims of corporate greed globalisation
– they’ve more rights then sweat shop workers
from where you’ve bought your clothes
for the past twenty-something years.

Repress any enjoyment you feel
from listening, viewing, or sensing
popular culture - it’s popular,
and you’ve already made the life-explaining decision
of being alternative, no, better still,
the decision to become as unacceptable as possible,
to shock the audience of national patriarchs
and teenage boppers to the sound
of sadistic and possible (hopefully) masochistic features.

Your everyday life is a working progress
towards an act, you’re writing a play
for the contemplation of life from the opinion
of a completely self-made, hand-crafted,
demon-possessed “individual”, you’ve got me hooked.
This is the new reality television show,
it's the innovative, original, sculptured obsession,
a new generation rebelling conservative retention.

The latest model of unique
is redrafting the old kitchen sink,
in other words becoming a separate uniform
is through the demands of reform
controlling the urges to conform to a society norm.
Long ago in your mouldable stages of adolescence
you believed that misinterpretation
was the key in the curse of governmental legislation,
but now you see that in any deliberation
there is no room in the future for a liberation
of humanity, of desperate deeds destined
to die in infantile exile.

And to think she thought the stench
of roadkill would warn….
how we are told,
how we are educated.




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  • lost angel On Wednesday, August 5, 2009, lost angel (29) wrote:

    this... was... amazing...

  • totaltrip On Monday, May 19, 2008, totaltrip (43) wrote:

    :) very smart write. nice.

  • The Lipstick Factor On Thursday, May 15, 2008, The Lipstick Factor (749) wrote:

    Wow, this is simply astounding. I have nothing further to say. No, let me rephrase that, I am unable to say anything further...wow.

  • HalfDarkAngel On Thursday, September 7, 2006, HalfDarkAngel (79) wrote:

    i loved this. this is sarcasm put into the purest form of art.

  • Reefer_rave On Tuesday, August 14, 2007, Reefer_rave (188) wrote:

    Exactly whats already been said , I couldn't not leave something

  • Grim_Sorrow On Friday, October 21, 2005, Grim_Sorrow (82) wrote:

    Incredible... wow, ***favorites*** Love the use of sarcasm, pure honesty. few write with purpose. happy to have stumbled across this

  • capt_funguy On Sunday, February 20, 2005, capt_funguy (918) wrote:

    straight faced , and so well stated .. a journey of detail and disdain... kinda made " everything" into a - specific .. dug it completely ... funguy

  • A former member wrote: Shit this was awsome. I could almost taste the bitter sarcasm floating in front of my eyes. Awsome write. ~Ship!

  • lordshadow On Friday, October 29, 2004, lordshadow (157) wrote:

    wow, this was incredible. every single word in this piece served a purpose and served it well.

  • stuart_pid On Tuesday, October 26, 2004, stuart_pid (165) wrote:

    woah, every single line in this write rings true. i wanna copy this and start mailing it out. everyone should read this. excellent write.

  • MelvinOliverDrauma On Monday, October 25, 2004, MelvinOliverDrauma (501) wrote:

    This is beautiful

  • suicideseason On Saturday, October 23, 2004, suicideseason (1921) wrote:

    _this is dark poetry at its best.all of your work is mind blowing in so many ways.

  • Sharon Rose On Saturday, October 23, 2004, Sharon Rose (626) wrote:

    Can't believe there are still no comments on this...this is an absolutly amazing study of modern society..a stripping of the layers...I've read it 5 times and find new dimensions each time..thanks for posting it.


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