Breakfast With Dave

a satire over people who think they know too much...

If you describe cornflakes as an analogy for the

lumpenproletariat, add milk, then ergo you have

Hegel`s dialectical materialism.

Of course, I don`t want to get too epistemological

about this, but isn`t it a case of reification ?

But who cares - I`m beyond thymos, and

in any case, Marcuse would call me one dimensional,

nothing true in a false system, so why don`t we de-ideologise

breakfast. Another cup of tea mate ?

Author's Note

I wrote this after reading some articles in a very intellectual newspaper. But I even hope
it makes sense...

Reviews

[cartera]

Although Hegel was the dialectican supreme, I believe it was Marx who gave us dialectical materialism. Just thought I should share that with you in case you are daft enough to seek out any more intellectual newspapers, although there are rich pickings in these for a rhymer: all the -isms, the- als, and the -ations.
This stuff always always puts me in mind of Omar Khayam and his observation that after all the scholarly talk he goes out the same door as he came in. Just as, as you say, one always feels the need for a cup of reviving tea after reading the stuff.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Hey so the moral is..........stay away from intelectual newspapers!
This made me laugh. This is a clever and powerful tilt at intelectual snobbery.

[Cassie]

ha! ha! this is nice, in poetry you can write about anything, I like it very much

[Coyote Song]

A very clever and well done poem!

[icelandicblue]

I am amused. I suppose he eats with his left hand!

Nothing like a bit of economic posturing over breakfast cereal from Battle Creek.

[Angi]

Oh Leslie! My blackbirds are positively swarming over my head! ha!

[Claire Twinn]

I think it would be too early in the day to talk to this guy!

[Sami Khalil]

A very cleve and wonderful write . An enjoyable read...:)

[FJ Davis]

I'm for that de-ideologisation--though, I'll gladly take the tea.
A vocabulary lesson, a cultural statement and a bit of humor--strikes me as a pretty good deal.
Thanks, Leslie!

[quinfinn]

i'm still bouncing some of these words off my cranium, butt the write is superb!