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Mother Earth

by DewDrop

Member since 2003 · Posted 11 Feb 2003 · Edited 11 Feb 2003 · 9 comments

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.

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9 comments

[n/a] Mr Pig 11-Feb-03/2:01 AM Reply
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
[n/a] Caducus 11-Feb-03/3:53 AM Reply
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
[8] scitz 11-Feb-03/4:44 AM Reply
does famring coffee beans for coffee beans make sense though? thats what is bugging me on an otherwise fine piece?
[8] scitz 11-Feb-03/4:44 AM Reply
does famring coffee beans for coffee beans make sense though? thats what is bugging me on an otherwise fine piece?
[n/a] DewDrop › scitz 11-Feb-03/5:07 AM Reply
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.
[n/a] Mr Pig › DewDrop 11-Feb-03/5:37 AM Reply
then change it, one would be a buffoon not to.
[n/a] DewDrop › Mr Pig 11-Feb-03/7:00 AM Reply
who you callin a buffoon !
[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 11-Feb-03/11:27 AM Reply
Hope? Fear? Justice?
Systematic? Dogmatic? Pragmatic?

A.S.T.H.M.A.T.I.C.------------>
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Great use of "Nicaragua" to rhyme with "peanuts"
[n/a] DewDrop › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 12-Feb-03/6:12 AM Reply
Well spotted. Yeah, I also used the same cunning to rhyme Kuwait with stillborn.

Inhale that.