Liberté, Égalité, Humanité
steel boxes voyage
endlessly over Seven Seas
enough to go round
~
n.b. Needs are relatively simply met, the economic and climate disruption problems arise due to rapacious desires, the unlimited wants of consumerism, the uninhibited excesses of free market ideology.
There must be a better way, involving caring and sharing, like families, possibly.
CLP 15/05/2021
Based on ‘Words’ by Tadeusz Różewicz
(translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston)
Published by archipelago books (New York, 2007)
Herds
Herds are rounded up
treated as fodder
for innocent smiles
reduced to mere patties
sold by a clown
.
macerated with machined steel
compressed into packets
wrapped
conveniently for
shipping
.
distant forests
have been cleared
reduced to pasture
for consumers
who know not this work
.
soon
disposed of
through the human gut
‘though residual traces lie in wait
still living
.
converted blood
converted bone
converted to something
else we use up
converted from living
creatures to
foodstuff
~
n.b. 
Day 5 take a poem and convert its shape and sound into something of your own, using the first letter of each line from the original to start your own poem. I have taken the shape of a poem and used it as a template for my own, but using my own first letters. Not the original prompt, but as with all prompts, a starting point, not a proscriptive set of rules, (for me…). Also the original poem is not out online for you to cross reference, as far as I can find, sorry.
~
CLP (05/04/2021)
She’s been gone awhile
Yet here she is still on sale
and still exploited
~
n.b. Remarkably the most expensive CD in the store is of the late Amy Winehouse’s songs.
.Even Kylie, who continues to dance so vigorously in the Disco, is only £7 a CD, where as Amy is £15.00.
~
CLP 03/02/2021
This is the day when
The presents were exchanged
Now it’s just shopping.
.
CLP
Voyage des Mots 