Americans Now Poem by Eugene Levich

Americans Now



They are informed of their needs by TV ads
They don't write long letters to their loved
They tweet

They don't grow corn and tomatoes
Or skin out a deer
Hanging from a scotch pine

They don't look into faces and hearts
Only into Facebook
That compendium of moronic nonsense

Their vegetables come from hot houses
Their meat in packages
Everything plastic wrapped
Like their lives

Saturday, October 15, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: nostalgia
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Michael Walker 11 July 2019

I like the satire of Facebook and Twitter. 'That compendium of moronic nonsense'. So right, I'd never go back there.

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Bri Edwards 03 April 2017

i just read your retort to my previous comment. i'm SURE you are correct! ! as for the above poem, it shall grace the list of poems and poets in my/our April 2017's showcase, to be found by searching for April 2017's in my list of PH poems. thanks. and btw, i like being wrapped in plastic! in fact, i had plastic surgery to encase me. bri :)

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Eugene Levich 03 April 2017

Having just returned from LA and driving on the 405- all I want to do is sit on the veranda and watch the fish jump!

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Walterrean Salley 08 November 2016

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. 2 Corinthians 13: 8 (NIV)

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Susan Williams 22 October 2016

All in all, the percentages of hunters and farmers are probably low. But you really must meet my niece! ! ! She's out there right now in the mountains tracking whatever is in season- -she's seen black bear but hasn't shot it so perhaps it is not in season. She shoots game with a rifle or a shotgun or a bow and arrow. She skins them out and carries them out. She fishes but not from a boat- -not having one. I have a dozen friends who garden- -they keep me supplied with tomatoes and potatoes, jellies and jams! Facebook is stupid in the wrong hands but it can't be beat for an inexpensive way to keep in daily touch with family way across the country. All is not lost yet, Eugene, Marginalized but not extinct! !

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Eugene Levich 23 October 2016

Thanks for your interesting note. Your niece sounds like my kind of gal! (Don't let my wife read this!) I'm not really down on America- I think I had a back ache when I wrote this poem- or maybe I had just listened to a speech by one of our two repulsive presidential contenders- THAT would put most sane people into a fit of pessimism!

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Spock The Vegan 15 October 2016

Cell phones are all over the world. I don't use one. I was on Facebook for a while, but found it a terrible waste of time. I have never tweeted, and don't intend to. I grow a garden, but it only supplements. We are at the mercy of the big food companies.

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Eugene Levich 23 October 2016

Spock, Captain Kirk and I send you our thinks for your comment.

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