We live in a time of electronic revolutions.
Times where a research report doesn’t require a trip to the
library
The height of telecommunications around the world
(Which happens to be surrounded by satellites)
We email a memo to the guy sitting two cubicles down
because we are to lazy to get up and tell him.
If Myspace goes down for two hours, half the world is in a
panic.
People don’t recognize art unless it is measured in
pixels.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, we live in The New Millennia.
We live in a time of worry.
Rare is the day that a new missing person isn’t reported in
the news.
We hear about gang fighting and bomb threats.
There are even more we don’t hear about.
We live in times where a woman can’t even put a birth
announcement in the paper or rent a stork cutout for the
yard without remembering the infant who was stolen from her
home.
And bringing a child to the dentist is something that
should be with extreme caution, particularly if using
intravenous anesthetics.
We live in a time of violence.
Where a woman is killed and her baby is cut from her womb,
her other three children are left dead in a dryer.
A school yard shooting.
Then within a week, like the class room copy cat, two more
follow.
Five girls killed in an Amish one room school house.
A well loved principal killed by a fifteen year old
student.
A girl taken hostage and fatally wounded from a gun shot as
she tried to run.
The shooter almost always turns the gun on themselves.
We live in a time of sheer idiocity.
Where a congressman accused of sending inappropriate emails
to teenage pages, has to then become an alcoholic to cover
it up.
We live in a world where no single embryo may die.
But everyday in war, soldiers loose and take lives.
Lives that will be mourned.
Lives that will be missed.
Where the president goes against the decision of the UN.
(Yee Haw for cowboy diplomacy!)
Where a war’s purpose is changed time and time again to
combat public dissent.
We live in these times.
Times of electronics, and worries, and violence, and
idiocity.
Yes Ladies and Gentlemen
This is the New Millennia.
Author notes
I wrote this last year, and I was really just pissed off at the world. I was afraid to turn on the news to see what else had happened since the last time I watched. So this is sort of just a kind of poetic venting session.
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Comments
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LOVE IT and i share yr thoughts... i trust in nothing anymore but myself...
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I love the repetition of the "yes ladies and gentlemen" line. This is great. Best of luck to you in the contest! x
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First-class sentiment marred by two small things. dictionary.com tells me “No results found for idiocity.” Are you coining a new word or do you mean “idiocy” [utterly senseless or foolish behavior; a stupid or foolish act, statement, etc.]? Fourth word in seventh line should be “too”. Truth spoken with grammatical errors are sometimes less effective. You give a realistic view of our much less than perfect world.
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"...Ladies and Gentlemen
This is the New Millennia."
Yes, it is a little disappointing.
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Great entry! I assure you will win something in my contest for your poem.
I like how the first stanza ends with
"Yes ladies and gentlemen,
We live in the New Millenia"- and how you end the poem with the same line. It is marvelous.
I like how you keep contrasting all the hypocrisies that are going on...
The sad part is that here, in the U.S., it's harder to find out what is going on all around the world.I mean, when I lived in Romania, I knew more of what was going on in the world. Plus, in there I could curse the American Government for the War in Iraq(because it's useless)with no problem, but here I can only do it in my head.
I wish you good luck, and I hope that you will be able to publish your poem in a newspaper. Maybe it will make people a little more sensitive about what it going on in this messed up society.
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