- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Inhumanity
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Crouched down low
In the stygian darkness
All powerful
Misshapen limbs
Reach out in
Fear and hunger
Wide eyes see
One answer
Consume
Consume everything
Ichors flow from open wounds
As one by one by one
Children are devoured
Eaten up by hours
Sweatshop toil
Products
Goods
All stamped with tiny fingers
“Machine Made”
Says a lot
Inhuman?
Perhaps…
But not to a cannibal
This poem was inspired by Goya’s painting “Coronus Devouring His Children”
- COMMENTS
Esteban03over 19 years ago....just over 60 words to express so much of the case against greed. Quality writing and compelling reading.
Thank you
twelveooneover 19 years agousing de Goya, as a base instead of Rubens, better choice. Very subtle political attack buried here, underneath the horrors of third world labour. Every system carries within it the seeds of its own destruction, and resorts to a form of cannibalism (consumption of its own future) at its end, capitalism being no different. I think this is multileveled, many points for that. Dystopia?
Shopping carts in the river Styx?
Anonymousover 19 years ago....Western consmers consider where that doll was maade or under what conditions. How many give a thought to the women locked in a fire trap, sewing jeans. This is a powerful statement for more thought into what we buy.
irishcatsmeowover 19 years agoit didn't take you many words to convey the horror and misery of this situation. Cannibalism comes in many forms...
ferociouskittycatover 19 years ago... would come to expect of your poetry,
Just brilliant!! ;-)
