Society facing its undoing
sorely needed: Radical renewing
Distraction
no substitute
for action
quick, resolute
Yeah but, not that I’m inertial
leave me live my life commercial!
Won’t a silly life usurp?
Finding true peace of mind while with zest
hoping to show off how we’re ‘blessed’
struggling intensely to stay abreast
with those most elegantly dressed?
Are we lacking in discernment?
Won’t silly life usurp us
mire us in mundane internment
oblivious to purpose?
While acquisitive restraint much maligned
perhaps a journey of most wondrous kind?
Plastic piles & lodges like mastic
Took more than just happenstance
to strangle Earth in mass choking
No sweet sounding song & dance
when all species begun croaking!
Who thought the Earth safeguarded
against plenty piled up plastic
when sloppily discarded
clogging Earth with massive mastic?
Crisis deniers’ speeches bombastic
while their relation to truth elastic
“All is not lost!” said the person who put on a few pounds
So let us trudge along
gulping mega fudge
trying hum freedom’s song:
‘Mustn’t ourselves begrudge!’
while mired in deep despair
not going anywhere
Over diverse diets
getting ourselves mesmerized
Emotions run riots
by repeat failure chastised
Such is life in consumer cultures
where nothing is ‘overdoing’
while life as insatiable vultures
clearly assures our undoing
Takes so much more for us to lose weight
than by what we don’t serve on our plate
No rest until she scores the best
Again and again she looks
for what’s urgently ‘essential’
zero objections she brooks
then pours on efforts torrential
These things she’d ‘wanted forever’
and won’t fumble on follow through:
She pursues in all out endeavor
as been her custom hitherto
No hurdle shall stand in her way
allowing herself no rest
against peace of mind she’ll inveigh
until having scored the best
Sales pitches sclerotic in commerce idiotic
Where trampling consumer herds graze
among shrill sales pitches sclerotic
with perked up ears, their screens on face
stampede in commerce idiotic
With grasping hearts ice pack cold
snagging shiny contrivances
by acts as quick as they’re bold
in persuasive connivances
While they barely break in sweat shopping
still being on a track all sopping
The true cost of fleeting convenience
What’s the true price of ‘convenience’
beyond just the purchase sticker?
Add in cost of our self-lenience
and it hastily turns sicker
incurred by a ‘wheeled fortress’ car
‘starter castle’ residence
frequent air travel wide & far
current clueless President
And in this nation most obese
we keep ordering extra cheese!
In slack-jawed stupefaction
Gushing over ‘high society’
in such slack-jawed stupefaction?
Finding its crass impropriety
a never ceasing attraction?
Reading about celebs of means
(chauffeured in their limousines)
in check-out counter magazines?
If amusing, by all means!
But is it long term fulfilling
that what it might be instilling?
What may you expect from us?!
We plunge focused like the gannet
in the contemporary
promptly pillaging the Planet
for ends pecuniary
Under lame pretext of Progress
while fouling our Species’ Nest
with Technology we obsess
betraying Those Coming Next
But those of us simply not aware
surely can’t be expected to care?!
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gannet = large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill who feeds itself by plunging dives for fish
Our Species eviction, yeah but …
Polluting & depleting
we’re fouling our own nest!
A planet overheating
but hey, we’re on a quest!
Whether by plain obliviousness
narcissistic dereliction
or shackled by lasciviousness
must end with species eviction
Yeah but, won’t our mindlessness be excused
as we’re by snappy ‘yeah but’ quips bemused?
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-‘yeah but’ quip = such as: “Oceans rising? Yeah but, won’t we all get waterfront property then!”