Shameful Stains

These stains will make no
enemies as vanity vacates a
chef’s belief; space for frippery
is wasted in audacious minds
which feed a greedy Nation.

We eat and spray the livid
mess about our face’s frenzy
of bad taste; nothing new
abstains a shocking case
which grosses here.

Stains dictate a view that
urbane eaters must consume
the food as well as napkins
plates and spoons with trees
rebated for incessant greed.

Decadency’s seen here in
an agony of market share –
While there the grain is gleaned
from spare and hungry waste,
without these shameful stains.
© 8 June 2008, I. D. Carswell

Making Sense

So you don’t watch TV much these days!
It typically equates to $ and ¢, always in
the real sense; you either pay up front &
get screwed anyway or are pared out of
your dough by what’s on free-to-air. No
relief is at bay, ad pursuit is relentless,
goods you don’t want, indeed never need

pound the screen, stare from billboards,
scream demented messages of “consume
or be beaten”. And it’s useless declaring
fervently – Hey let up a ways – it won’t
buy relief. Ad men believe it divine duty
to buy their wares – as persuasive proof
of your good citizenry and belief in God,

motherhood and our great Nation! So get
shaking, empty your pockets, wear your
flat-wallet patriotism proudly in the name
of all that was & will be Good! But beware,
a little bird said TV scheduling won’t even
change a little bit but the price
of fuel most certainly will...
© 3 June 2008, I. D. Carswell