Indoctrination
It is in fairy tales we learn about rich and poor,
the wealthy suitor always wins and gets the princesses hand
and the poor cobbler will always be mending shoes.
In the "glass slippers, " the poor girl fits the slippers and the prince
while the ugly sisters get a job in the Guardian Newspaper,
where they get paid for griping about men.
In Little Red Riding Hood the wolf is the working class trying to take
Power from the haves, but he becomes a cropper and drowns
in the well. So you see, the indoctrination starts early and when
we are adults find inequality normal
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Our survival instincts ask us to flee from/yield to indoctrinating efforts, not fight. That catches us unaware, with veiled force, with camouflaged method of the power that be. Wonderful writing Oskar.