Life Is Far Too Important Poem by Raymond Farrell

Life is far too important
To be taken seriously
People are subjecting others to a lament
Lurid, specific and in exaggerated details
Of what their
Life in reality is not
Nor ever will be
With wild surreal images
All about emotional upheavals
Each and every one
Of these whiners
Is getting three square meals a day
Even if they don't get enough orgasms
They're better fed
Than over 80% of the globe
They're sitting in a sewer
And adding to it
Over-sensationalizing an otherwise
Mundane existence
Poverty, deprivation and war
The very dredges of depravity
Render billions silent every single day
While we Westerners
Whine and whine and whine away.