Bread on the Table~ #Poetry
Okay...ad-lib poetry. Asking for a word list from a mini-me who's making cup cakes in the kitchen means her creativity was flowing else where...and this is what she gave me to work with, as per the instructions found at Poetics with Brian Miller over at dVersePoets
The List:
The List:
- table
- bread
- instructing
- counting
- feeding
- tight
- blue
- pink
- book
- children
The resulting Poem:
Bread on the Table
Systemized to the dream
Rule book set
Blue collar tight
Thus begins the fight
But they change the rules when you aren't looking
Collar becomes cuff in the definition of nonessential
A pink slip left to greet you
On the heels of Monday morning
30 hours becomes 60
Stopped counting at 80
Missed first steps
and concert recitals
Gave every ounce of your being
as their manifesto instructed
The Cost
The Education
The Ritual Sacrifice of everything you ever dreamed
in exchange for false promises
Prosperity and potential
In exchange
for slavery
Cut loose and left to fend for yourself
A criminal of the system's design
Forced underground to feed your children
Over-qualified to go hungry.
Okay...took some creative liberties with the list...but truth be told, I wasn't really feeling the cupcake mood ;) Get your pens to the pub poets...Poetics is underway.
Comments
Collar becomes cuff in the definition of nonessential
ouch. got that pink slip a time or two. given a few....what are we willing to give up for prosperity...that in many ways will tell much of a person...i quit corporate because it was doing just that to me...
ha, you did well with what you were given....
In exchange
for slavery "
Sounds like a high price to pay. So much missed along the way. Evocative writing. The reader cannot help but understand and empathize.
"30 hours becomes 60
Stopped counting at 80" I had that job once. ;)
Great use of the list liberties or not.
Cheers!
Madeleine Begun Kane