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Modern *****

The wind, it calls, through foggy day

T o dazzle dust and drive dirt away.

But some of these darkened vertex

Hide the stories and forever perplex

The strengths of tested 'feel-good' fables,

Denouncing sciences' empirical labels:

Too thin, too fat, too short, too tall,

Too hairy, too bald, too square, too like a ball,

Too strong, too weak, too open to lies,

To encompassing of stories of the skies.

Too angry, too meek, too full of passion,

So give us pills! It's the latest fashion!

Dose us up on your chemical compounds,

Stop us from disclosing rebellious sounds

Which remind us that not all we know,

Are these soul-sucking television shows:

Nip-Tuck, What NOT to Wear, Big ******* Brother,

This is the modern day 'Watch With Mother',

Feeding false standards, 'Bieber-fied' norms,

Sapping energy, becoming a nation of vacant gorms.

So Yes! Hide your kids, hide your wife,

Open your own doors, live your own life,

Because this **** ain't going nowhere,

And even without a deity, a higher force is watching, somewhere.

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jessica-woodward
English
Published
Mar 24, 2011
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