Take out the Trash!

Life is filled with inequalities and 'inhuman' behaviour yet we don't even know who we are!

So Mark Zuckerberg

is worth sixty-nine billion

and Banksy has made

a killing aping Parliament.

Nizam of Hyderabad

was the richest man in the world,

rats chewing up three million dollars

didn't dent his fortunes.

Juan Orlando Hernández,

president of Honduras,

traffics drugs.

Joe Giudice is losing weight

and his mind, in prison

on fraud charges,

so they are sending him home.

And Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

denies involvement in the killing

of Jamal Khashoggi.

Meanwhile Ms Zamourka wandered

the streets of Loss Angeles,

homeless.

But there is a cosmic web in space,

a vast, mysterious structure

that links up far-flung galaxies

and adds one more piece

to the celestial jig-saw

that explains our origins.

 

04/10/19

Author's Note

Reviews

[Betty Hermelee]

You did a great job of describing the "TRASH" the rich, the crooked and the phonies; and my favorite line is " Meanwhile Ms. Zamourka wandered the streets of Los Angeles, HOMELESS". nice poem
Betty Hermelee

[Robert Trakofler]

Eventually cable television, video games and alternate reality will not be enough to keep the masses pacified... As I walk about town and see all of the "plugged" folks amble mindlessly about unable to take gaze away from there de-Vices sitting across the table from each other at restaurants not saying a word to each other but "checking in" to my restaurant and showing a selfie hey look at my burrito! LOL... but not actually being present at the table. these sorts of things used to get me upset even a bit angry at times. but all at once a eureka moment occurred and I realized they hate there lives so much that they choose to live in a digital one. But some day and I think soon those pacifiers are gonna start to taste bad and I wonder just what sort of reckoning is going to happen:/

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ah rant away Robert but I guess the previous generation said similar things about us. Remember rock n' roll! Many thanks.

[Robert Trakofler]

I see plenty of full blown adults doing the exact same thing this is a multi generational thing

[Eilis]

Yeah, it’s pretty absurd. I still struggle to understand where Mark Zuckerberg’s money comes from. I mean I know, it’s just a very odd business. I read last week that Facebook is working on mind reading technology. WTF. I’m glad I’m not on that site.

You bring up some excellent points in this, John. We are lacking balance in wealth distribution and the carelessness of those holding the money-power is like a slap in the face to us regular folk.

That anyone in a “first-world country” can be starving or homeless is unacceptable. So much is squandered. Our ideas are often clouded by economic theory, sadly, and many believe it is social Darwinism at work when people suffer. Disturbing.

Thought-provoking poem. I appreciate your passion regarding social justice.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Eilis for getting the point here so clearly. I was in Portugal a few years ago in one of their swanky new tourist resort. One of the expensive hotels on the beach was overlooking the marina with multi million pound yachts yet 100 yards away was a shanty town, in Europe!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

is there anywhere that things are good...and leaders of countries actually care about the country and its people? a litany of abuse....add our country and its leaders to this list....
poignant piece..
j.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ah Jacob I could have matched the 'Ancient Mariner' had I listed all the scoundrels of different widths and heights. Many thank yous.

[Chris Shaw]

I have to say the Banksy artwork aping Parliament is brilliant, but the purchase price of 10 million was a joke. These geezers are richer than rich and some of them also happen to be very unsavoury when it comes to morals. Just highlights what a horrible world of inequality we live in. Great poem John.

Chris

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Agreed Chris he is a brilliant social commentator. Inequality is one man's right and another man's burden it seems. Many thanks Chris

[gram linski]

I would like to think that the offsprings of the origins are a lot more caring and understanding than the rogues gallery of fuckholes you mention here, great poem, dude,

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ever hopeful or ever hopeless, no matter, both get ya in the end bro. Aye a veritable rogue's gallery of f***s. Many thanks gram.