Hotel Utopia

This one is a bit odd and satirical, but I really like it. Let me know what you think!

 

Welcome to Utopia, please take off your shoes

The sod of impure soil mustn't stain our floors

Your possessions? They’re having another final check.

Have a shower; your rotten skin will taint the air.

 

I hope you enjoy your stay; we have the finest room for you

Top floor, at the back, beautiful brick-wall view

Bed so comfortable the vermin relish in it

Writhing their unctuous bodies in the silky spreads

 

If you would forgive us, the shower is antiquated

It chokes on sewage and spits shards of limescale

But I suppose that you people are no strangers to filth

Do you bathe in grime in your decrepit dwellings? 

 

Our culinary splendour is the epitome of its kind

But perhaps too rich for your unripe tongue

Are your people accustomed to the elegant etiquette

Of such a refined gastronomic affair?

 

Oh please don’t mind the guests, they mean no harm

They are unaccustomed to people of your background

They are unfamiliar with your pungent rustic smell and

Find your tones distasteful. They clash with the curtains you see.

 

Please sir, where are you going? Why must you leave?

It is rude to walk out on a man who is talking to you

My kind would not stoop to such wretched ignorance.

Utopia isn't for everyone, only those like me.

Reviews

[The Nameless]

It's a great poem with a very interesting point of view.

I love the irony - they think they are giving these people such priveledges and luxuries when they are actually putting them in the same horrific conditions they were in before they went there.
Also, he considers the man rude when he walks away, but he was being rude to the man all the time, because what he was saying was quite insulting.
It reminds me of people who do good for the show and build a good reputation, but their kindness is empty.

[Michael Kevin Spencer]

I think this piece is about racism and that utopia are those places where they attempt homogeneity, but truly the ideal utopia I suppose would strive for diversity in human unity.

I think also people judge each other depending on class and wealth and this kind of money-ism isn't really as well documented, but interesting how people who live in poverty often have less friends, etc...

If you are a minority you face discrimination which probably leads you do being less rich. If you are all these things and happen to be a single Mother, without male privilege, it's hard to actually imagine what that would be like...

[Lewis Davis-Norman]

I totally agree that a true Utopia is a place where they strive for diversity. In a sense, this poem is a bit outdated and exaggerated, but 50 years ago, this would not be the case. The harsh fact is that some countries consider themselves as Utopia's for refugees and minorities, but ironically undermine that through blatant racism Thank you for your review, your last paragraph may have inspired a new poem ;)