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Open Poetry #49

The Glass Man

Pete_W
Member
Posts 185
Scotland (UK)

0 posted 2015-12-15 07:32 PM

The Glass Man

The model form,
housing all organs
of the state,
supposed to do away
with flawed humanity,
and at it’s heart,
red as any child’s,
the false, exultant blood
leapt through glassy arms
upraised, perverted
to a monumental proclamation
of hygienic ideology.
That flesh,
that house of glass,
where all could see
that all beneath
was all the same
was still,
is still
so easily ignored.

December 2015

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2015-12-16 04:22 AM

Exceptional, I would say, Pete! Yes you hit the nail on its head. Great, incisive write.

May awareness grow!

Margherita

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2015-12-20 07:58 PM

Missed this the first time around . . . Taking it to the limit here I think . . .

~ Do what you have to do to feel right,
I'll do my best to be alright. ~

DaysofView
Member

since 2014-04-01

Posts 433
Just A Slice Of The Pie

3 posted 2015-12-20 11:22 PM

my grandpa has a model of a clear man with organs and all that stuff! He told me he made it when he was a boy. It looks really weird but its also pretty cool!

It was just a thought which made them run. It was just an act that killed them.

Pete_W
Member
Posts 185
Scotland (UK)

4 posted 2015-12-21 06:31 AM

Thanks for all the responses. This Glass Man was life sized & made in the 1930's for the Museum of Hygiene in Dresden and it's meaning / original use perverted to serve an evil ideology. It was a picture of this Glass Man that sparked this poem.
Thanks.
Pete

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