a cure

it was a lovely afternoon,

 

we drank gourmet coffee and discussed fiscal policies,

as, just beyond the decorative door,

children starved in dry hot desert pain,

women were raped in the names of gods,

android bombers killed mothers and babies

who were standing too close to terrorist madmen,

elderly people died of heat exhaustion in their own homes,

teeth rotted, souls were ripped from their bodies and cast

out into a manmade void, husbands beat their wives vigorously,

boxes of newborn kittens and puppies were tossed from moving

car windows, banks were robbed, cars stolen and a star in deep space

burned out.

 

you said something funny about cheese.

we laughed until our sides hurt.

 

we were maggots

digging and dancing in our own rotting beef carcass,

waiting for some magical messiah to give us wings

and for Fate to drop rock-star love into our hungry laps.

 

there are too many moral gaps to be filled;

a mouthful of cavities too sensitive to suck the sweetness

from the rind.

 

 when we kissed goodbye,

I tasted the world’s disease and war on your lips.

I’m sure mine tasted no better.

 

well, there is no cure for the world in coffee or conversation.

(cross that one off the list)

next time, let’s try bowling and beer!

that’ll heal them all!

Reviews

[MuSe Ampoule]

This is most definitely one of the most powerful writes I've seen from you. First of all, the first stanza is INCREDIBLE...with the the lulling beginning, turning into a dull knife which you rightly jab into our useless eye sockets! Then you twist it back and make us think...oh maybe s**t ain't right because we're too busy ignoring s**t...ack!

Superb writing! Just Great!

[Kenneth The Poet]

Just a b***h-slap at the bourgeois, of which I'm a member and, sadly, I enjoyed it.

I love coffee and conversation, too.

Beer is good too.

[Crowley]

Haaaaa.....I love the cheese line. The tongue in cheek truths spoken here are fantastic. And the last line......all kidding aside.....spot on.....lol. When are we going bowling?