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Mother Earth (Free verse) by DewDrop In sun scorched Nicaragua
Malnutrition is one in eight child's middle name
They farm coffee beans for peanuts
And we pay 3 dollars a cup.
A film star and his film star wife, a nobody from the valleys
Are in the High Court, they've been wronged, someone took photos at
their wedding show
You can see the point: They'd sold the rights for a million or so.
Another rain forest is cleared for cattle
And BK sells the flame-grilled fodder to the troops in Kuwait
Hey, nobody likes incest, especially when Nuclear Weapons are involved.
Justice? Ask the grieving mother of a stillborn.
Up the ladder:
3.85g
Down the ladder:
The wheelchair
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Arithmetic Mean: 6.2
Posted: February 11, 2003 1:55 AM PST; Last modified: February 11, 2003 6:59 AM PSTWeighted score: 5.1430435 Overall Rank: 5357 Comments:
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Mr Pig @ 62.105.88.10
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11-Feb-03/2:01 AM
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You need to condense the points you are making because the irony you evoke in this poem is very apt. Catherine Zeta Jones in the outback of nicaragua would be a just sentence, liked the point you so nearly made in this _____7
This is one of your more angry pieces, i have awaoke to smell your nicaraguan coffee beans and the aroma will linger for quite some time. Liked where you were going with this,but leave Zeta Jones out of it ....HELLO ! -9
does famring coffee beans for coffee beans make sense though? thats what is bugging me on an otherwise fine piece?
does famring coffee beans for coffee beans make sense though? thats what is bugging me on an otherwise fine piece?
Its a British term for being paid a pitifull amount. Could have
(should have?) used "peanuts" instead. Its not so much a poem really, I just watched the news last night and the three stories followed on from each other seamlessly - The sheer madness of it all struck me. Glad it make you think though, thanks.
then change it, one would be a buffoon not to.
who you callin a buffoon !
Hope? Fear? Justice?
Systematic? Dogmatic? Pragmatic? A.S.T.H.M.A.T.I.C.------------> --------------> issues <------- Great use of "Nicaragua" to rhyme with "peanuts"
Well spotted. Yeah, I also used the same cunning to rhyme Kuwait with stillborn.
Inhale that. 142 view(s)
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