silentpoet
Stolen Words Oct 15th, 2006 10:46:06 am - Subscribe
taken meanings, made them worse
tragedies in sports where no one dies,
devestation in hollowwood people cry
Pretty plastic paris, with her pretty plastic smiles,
Pretty plastic politicks with pretty plastic denials
Pretty plastic wives and their pretty plastic eyes,
Pretty plastic marriages and pretty plastic lives.
Pretty plastic papers, with pretty plastic lines
Pretty plastic stories for pretty plastic minds
Pretty plastic reality, that reality should be denied
Pretty plastic wishes, from n man with hope inside.
I was reading an article about some mundance sports game, where the author called the loss "devestating" I understand that perhaps he was trying to capture the feeling the team that came up short was feeling, but was it truly devestating? No, unfortunate perhaps. The war going on in dafur is devestating, the thousands of kids who die daily for various reasons of international neglect, that is devestating. As writers our work, past present and future is being undermined, somehow we must reclaim words! Steal them back from the complacent. Or, i just need to get more sleep and not post until the afternoon. either or .
