{"id":74646,"date":"2020-06-28T04:12:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T08:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74646"},"modified":"2020-06-28T04:12:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T08:12:15","slug":"the-peasants-golden-arches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-peasants-golden-arches\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peasant’s Golden Arches"},"content":{"rendered":"

The power’s still out and all-night walmarts are closed<\/p>\n

And the world is instantly thrown back 100 years except there’s a glowing universe in everyone’s pocket.<\/div>\n
I’m sure this inactivity a nice band aid<\/div>\n
on the gaping wound that is the environment, economy, everything.<\/div>\n
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But it can’t be too helpful because the power is only out on this street. We are forgotten. I suffer in the ghetto of nowhere middle west.<\/div>\n
And yet I am fatter than 90 percent of humans who ever lived,<\/div>\n
and most could not imagine my pure abundance of stuff.<\/div>\n
Yet me and my neighbors are poor.<\/div>\n
We’re unhealthy, we do drugs, shootings are a common occurance.<\/div>\n
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The greatest contradiction<\/div>\n
One that seems to shake the human condition to its very core<\/div>\n
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Was the invention of the mcdouble<\/div>\n
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And a society that made its poor fat<\/div>\n
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