Marmalade asphalt dreams in retrograde...‏

built on dreams of marmalade asphalt

    reflections of life's endless stock options

intentions wither in brick-a-brac dwellings

    burnt bridges falling down on unicorn horns

uncle sam flipped the script in the cul-de-sac

   bust a rhyme on suburbia's white picket castles

stoked in stupefied highs of liberty's promises

  meeting the minimum quota's requirements

         five figures lost its notarization's appraisal 

 star buck zombies dying, falling for

             the bitter taste of de jour's grind

    meditating on a higher power's absurdity

skyscrapers blowing judgmental hot air 

    whoring for spotlight's front page headlines

morning paper's spread over junkyard's lawns

  home sweet home collapsed in foreclosure's clauses

earth spun out of control in malnutrition's churning

    green faded on horizon's grass roots

      sinking in facades of reality's retrograde  

Author's Note

captcha ~wekidu

Reviews

[kublakhan27]

I think I've been out-Dali-ed by Mrs.R haha...I don't really do politics, but the undercurrents of alienation, and the despondency of having big dreams and settling for less (all reinforced in the song)...well, this poem is just what the doctor ordered for me...even the most generic of life's stock options feel inaccessible to me...I think my stock market crashed recently...sometimes, actually most of the time, I feel like those skyscrapers, waiting with bells on to w***e myself for those front page headlines...wow, this is one powerful piece...I was gonna say that this is you at your best, but when have you not been at your best? Every single piece opens my mind, then blows it away...and I'm still trying to get my bearings back from your most recent dose of mind-blowing :) xo

[Frieda P]

NEVER happen Benji! Ha....I don't usually do politics or religion either but sometimes the adgeda gets overwhelming! You know I'm gonna frame this review dontcha? Mwah! xo

[kublakhan27]

Haha I only speak from the inspiration you give me Mrs.R, mwah :) xo

[B-poet]

You've definitely hit the nail right on the head with this piece. I like the layering technique, where each line adds to the pictured written canvass you've put together so well here. Nice work Frieda. A very interesting & unique write. :)

[Frieda P]

Thanks so much Bpoet, appreciate the kind review. :)

[Lyn Anderson]

ahh, the collapse of the American dream is now finally explained -- it was the marmalade! Man I hate that stuff. "I knew I couldn't trust you when you brought me marmalade and brie" -- LOL -- this is a very clear attack on the circumstances that led to the balloon bursting and the housing collapse -- but said so beautifully it melts on the toast -- unlike the marmalade, which just sits there, a sticky orange mess.

[Frieda P]

Yep the dang marmalade! I'm not familiar, are those song lyrics....perhaps it was the brie too. Ha...your review made me laugh out loud actually. :)

[Lyn Anderson]

That was mine from one of my poems -- a little "deer*" once brought me that gift ...

[Frieda P]

OOOH...yep, I do recall that snap now....