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JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2014-07-12 06:38 PM

look at us
going with the flow
drifting with the current
to the end
of our pitiful lives
with wordless understanding
like a mad creature locked within a cage
people believe
God was the mastermind of all this
pain and suffering
I’ll not argue
except to say, b.s.
we are in the midst of the evolution
we’re living longer
we’ll eventually live forever
I’m positive of that
what then?
colonize the nearest planets
you can guess what that will result in
war, of course
why stop doing what we do so well
killing each other

at any rate
we’re standing in line
knowing full well
this world
is a coarse and vulgar
slaughter-house

©June 30, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ When politicians give up on liberty, it falls to poets to preserve it. Or write its epitaph. ~*~

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

1 posted 2014-07-12 07:40 PM

Do we even know any other way of living, I wonder....

Write-on.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2014-07-12 07:43 PM

Eh, I think not, we seem to keep making the same mistakes generation after generation. Thanks Baby Girl for stopping by.

~*~ When politicians give up on liberty, it falls to poets to preserve it. Or write its epitaph. ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2014-07-13 07:33 AM

Slaughterhouse, hmmmm....The more I think about the choice of that word, the more I agree with it. Too true. too sad.

Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2014-07-13 08:09 AM

I could have gone with another word, Lori, but if you look at what is happening in the world today, slaughterhouse seemed to fit. Thanks for your observation.

~*~ When politicians give up on liberty, it falls to poets to preserve it. Or write its epitaph. ~*~

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

5 posted 2014-07-13 11:06 AM

Sometimes just have to laugh when I read your words, my friend - true in many ways though they may be. That's just the nature of me -

and where are we any different than any other "animals", except in the, so called, intelligence we have, which doesn't deplete our baser instincts, but just allows us to blame ourselves for things we affect and don't like.

As usual, enjoyed reading you.

j.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2014-07-13 12:06 PM

Laugh away Jimmy, I can take it! I agree that our intelligence sure doesn't deplete our baser instincts. If anything that intelligence only serves to find different and baser acts to comment. Thanks for your comments.

~*~ When politicians give up on liberty, it falls to poets to preserve it. Or write its epitaph. ~*~

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