Altered States

Europe and the world changes before our eyes!

French kissing

isn't what it used to be,

the frogs have lost their touch,

they are too busy raising funds

to save Notre Dame from collapse.

Their tongues are tied up

keeping the Germans on-side,

keeping Angela Merkel

from trembling in the heat

of a federal Europe.

The Spanish have,

at long last,

banished bull-fighting

and the French can no longer

keep pulling the legs off

grenouilles.

No more

cuisses de grenouilles

for them.

Oh and the Italians

have stopped pinching

girls bottoms

since 'Me Too' too.

What a changed world we live in!

25/06/19

Author's Note

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

Some things change for the worse and not the better sadly. Tolerance, respect and good manners seem to have flown out the window. Your Altered States is a fine free verse.

Chris

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Chris. Quel Change? Change is ever evolving and a human state as we strive and strive and are never content.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and our country has changed in the eyes of the rest of the world as well...we are not what we used to be...
I don't think anyone wishes what the Beach Boys sang once...'that they all could be California Girls'---
it's such a shame that the respect has dwindled for so many countries these days.
the world is a mess.
j.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

It is indeed different but it has always become different in an ever evolving culture here on earth Jacob. Many thanks.