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food for thought
by Mary Frances Spencertoo expensive for consumption
world resources
suck priorities
away from the hungry
markets are down
oil up
greasing greedy jaws
fattening the few fingers
stuck in the pie
let them eat war
feed on the frenzy
satisfy the share-holders
there is not enough cake
to go around
anyway
04/01/2008 Author's Note: Inspired to write this by an article in the LA Times today about the rising cost of food and how that effects hunger relief efforts. MFS
Posted on 04/02/2008
Copyright © 2024 Mary Frances Spencer
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Charlie Morgan on 04/02/08 at 02:31 PM ...mFs, this is one stupendous pome, the words are mmmmjustright! speaking of the subject is hurtful, eh?...our humantiarian-side, do we all need to move to Samaria? love it, mFs. charlie |
| Posted by George Hoerner on 04/02/08 at 03:37 PM Nice write MFS! But there is no place to move. Before long it will be water then air whose price will rise to meet our demise. Then the oil barons will have nothing left to buy with all their money and those in power will only have skeletons for soldiers. |
| Posted by Jared Fladeland on 04/03/08 at 03:53 PM ha. i think our two poems, the one you just replied to, are very similar indeed in some ways. i liked it |
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