Stacked on grocery shelves – kids view
Hallucinatory quality of a milk dream
Oddly shaped sizes floating in the bowl
Don’t want the breakfast of champions –
to dull; but rather, “Bring on the sugar! ”
Kellogg’s and others started a cultural
movement once upon a time, non-sequitur
Morning conversation, before mom and
dad make like Splits-Ville out the door
for them, it’s coffee and doughnuts – ole’.
Dad-aism and Mom-aism have long
become a cultural movement as-well
The passion has shifted to corporate
America, versus time with the kids
A destructive force – loss of the brain.
Each day has become ‘soap radio’
The human body is no longer connected
to the self; it’s now a participant in a
prank – anti-family, but not anti-dollar
The outcome – traditional values down the drain.
‘2008’
your lines present the modern picture where we fear of losing what we possessed coz of the changing values and attitudes, you have intelligibly connected it to this post modern literary trend, I liked the pun in the word Dadaism …I agree that the materialistic life is not giving enough room for our own selves… Nicely penned, Abha
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
the last stanza is thought provoking, , , expressed lightly and well, , , ,