Thursday, November 19, 2009

Poem-A-Day: Bonus 7 Day Anniversary Poem

I have to admit that this is directly inspired from hearing that Levis commercial with the Walt Whitman poem, Pioneers! O Pioneers!. Was it Whitman or the Levis, you be the judge.

Tell the People
Tell the people,
go tell the people.

Tell them what they have always
wanted to hear, and do it in
an inside voice, so as not to cause alarm.

Tell them the truth, regardless
of the situation and scads of
lies that have become precedent.

Tell the people,
go tell the people.

Tell them without shouting
that the act of being is relative, at
least in terms of everything.

Tell them to weep, because
that is humanity; knowing that they
are merely the afterthought to exist.

Tell the people,
go tell the people.

Tell them that they
have become what they are;
a structured sense of irrationality.

Tell them this message in
a clear way, so the message stays pure.
The words could be lost in form.

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