Friday, August 12, 2011
Unrest for the wearied
What the to-do is is brewing a yeasty undoing of our dearest darlings’ daring finery finely done and they’re mostly up there in their makeup where you can’t see them and they’re all made up for themselves alone and you’re very plainly alone sitting in the in-between sitting in your plain and hard-backed chair and you’re slack-jawed as you view the crowds through your thick and illuminated glass wall a glass soon to be shattered but there’s no shattering the other glass the glass of this ceiling that's pressing down this ceiling never more classy than it is now with glass that may get thicker yet if it’s not the thickest in fact and that’s got you feeling jittery at what little is left and what's left has almost been undone it’s being bitterly undone by hosts of lads and lasses with an anger like a hunger they're angry at the made-up most who are at most a few of the most well-off and these most haven’t been keen on hosting any airings of grievances because the cutting’s been done and it was needed that undoing no matter how cutting it feels and it’s all for the best even if it’s not in the least for the the best of these hosts of least who are the least of your sister-brothers, father-mothers and others farther along the family tree with its branches now withering everywhere but at the very tips and those leafy tips don’t reach down to those who may not bleed with you in a family sense but in every other sense they are your family most deeply rooted in you and they’re deeply incensed yes they’re incensed deeply enough to shed their blood your blood it's our blood.
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What's happening back home in London is really quite sad. I'm glad I avoided it to be honest. This was good, enjoyed the alliteration! :)
'Hungry lads and lasses'
Methinks you jest unenlightened sir. I noted that the looters were well fed and clothed. If you want to witness real hunger and poverty go to a third world country. People I know there would give anything to have the ( terribly sad ?)life of a London Looter.
Pointless putting them in prison..send them to the third world for a lesson in real life to witness first hand what hunger, suffering and tyranny really is.
Disgraceful!
There are different kinds of hunger. Unenlightened you say? I guess you're view of enlightenment is believing that people should except high unemployment rates and austerity measures that will make the rates go even higher because there are people in the world who are suffering more. Maybe you'll not be satisfied until there's an equivalency of hunger and poverty between the "third world" and the poor of the developed world, while the rich in both societies toast the themselves at the great success of the policies that didn't cost them a dime. Yes, now that's true enlightenment. And no, poverty isn't an excuse for violence, but there is violence perpetrated by the rich and powerful every day and I hope you're enlightened enough to condemn them with as much venom.
oops... meant "accept"
I changed hungry to angry since it didn't come across the way I wanted. I think that was a valid criticism.
A few more revisions... including "anger like a hunger" and some more clarity about the they's and the in-between status of the person being addressed.
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