dog food for breakast

on some news

children in India eating from garbage dumps,
happily scrounging through toxins to make a buck,

a suburban housewife writes about taking her lumps,
a dog food diet to lose 2 pounds; oh what luck,

who need worry about a vaccine for Ebola,
when there's a store promotion on Cherry Cola?

probe launch to a comet to see what we can see,
history dwarfed by a nerd who can't dress properly.

spend a morning chatting with unlimited text,
PETA applies to build a monument for turkeys.

hide in a bomb shelter and hope you are not next,
please stop making martyrs out of others' babies ...



only 39 days shopping days left till Christmas.

Author's Note

Some of the news from the past week. Nuff said.

Reviews

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

We do tend to worry bout the little things instead of what matters… I love your word play in every stanza.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you so much, I appreciate it.

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

You are most welcome hon.

[Delmar Cooper]

So sad, so true "Kibbles and Bits for Bangalore", "Dr. Pepper for Liberia," and choice Vermont marble for the martyred sons and daughters of poultry industrially slain for the Butterball November Festival.

[Lyn Anderson]

As always I appreciate your reviews.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

"i read the news today, oh boy"

"and though the news was rather sad"

this poem is very clever in its presentation...and yes, maybe we should switch to a diet of Meow Mix...

and plenty of water to wash it down. and then hashtag ourselves into the bleak future.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks Jacob. Sometimes our weirdness as a species astounds me.

[Chris]

How about history dwarfed by a media type that has to MAKE the story all about that nerd and not the achievement? They really covered the nerd - barely a soundbyte on the landing - then or since.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Now you are sounding like an evangelist but in another well constructed and pertinent work!

[MomzillaNC]

This is exactly what "Gluttony and Gratitude" is about. The world is sacrificing hope and ideals and moral commonsense for the minutia of mindless pap. I mean, for crying out loud! I've seen more headlines about Kim Kardashian trying to "break the Internet" than I have for that cometary landing!

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, and when it is about the comet landing, the main focus is the guy who forgot to take off the shirt he wore to the last (comicon?) convention ...

[MomzillaNC]

It's all just so moronic!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

but Kim is a phenomenal talent!!!!!!!!!!
isn't she????? what the hell does she actually do anyway????

[MomzillaNC]

Well, she and her sisters had a very successful retail business, and Kim and Khloe were/are successful models before that stupid video came out and their momager ran with it. Now, as far as I can tell, Kourtney is the only one still focused on their retail business and having babies. IDK what Khloe does. Kim seems set on the mass objectification of women by the simple expedient of her own T&A exhibitionism.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, she does, doesn't she!
they all should have just stuck to retail and modelling...

[MomzillaNC]

They should have made their momager sit on her hands when that video came out!

[therisa]

Damn, see what happens, when you sleep. Seriously, western society has become so focus upon the fluff and trivial things, because most people have given up, of it ever being better. As for shopping, am waiting for the groundhog day sales, myself.

[Lyn Anderson]

ha ha I just hate all that crap. Can you imagine, we landed a probe on a comet, an action that could, in future, save us from extinction, but what we are most concerned about is one of the team's Tshirt sporting women in lingerie. Poor taste, sure, but enough to blot out history? Really?

[therisa]

Heck, no. But, what do I know?

[icelandicblue]

We do seem to worship the silliness of life and by doing so we ignore the importance of what it means to be human with all our hardships and our penchant for discovery. We miss so much of value while we sip our Cherry Coke.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks, yes, sometimes these things frustrate me a little. The PETA group wanted to erect a $10,000+ monument to dead turkeys in a farming community near here. Sanity prevailed and the town said no.

[icelandicblue]

Take $10,000 and save some animals who are waiting to die in a kill "shelter."

[Lyn Anderson]

No kidding. Priorities huh? Total weirdness.