Tag: Society

#PoeticAnswers 85 – Why Do You Think They Call Them Trash?

The kings and queens of the hill,
The top of the trash heap
Have nowhere else to look
But down.
And they’re only happy
When they’re frowning down upon
Anyone or anything else,
As if they were some
Creature from hell
Trying to crawl and claw
Their way to the top.

Because they’re better,
Based on their opinions that
They’ve dressed up as fact to
Discriminate and separate the
Weak from the pack
So they can launch an attack
And call it defence.

But even being top of the heap
Still means you’re part of the heap.

Question from Michael Clark from Facebook

#PoeticAnswers 78 – Are Millennials Ruining The Table Industry?

Today’s headline in
“Let’s Blame The Millennials Daily”,
Aka The Internet,
The people,
Aka the privileged few pricks who
Pissed away the economy,
Have decided that my generation
Has brought on the untimely death of
The Table.

Yes, that’s right,
Due to sheer laziness
The millennial has now rendered
Fine carpentry a redundant industry.
They say it’s because we need everything
Put in front of us as though it’s obvious
And this is why the table is dying.
We’re a generation of laptops and lapdogs
And laptrays on which we display
Our meagre diets of ramen, avocado and IPA
As we sit in front of TVs watching indie cartoons and superhero movies
With subtitles on because
Millennials are so lazy
We don’t even listen to what we’re watching.

As a Millennial who
Does not identify as a Millennial
Due to the sheer stigma,
I would like to counter this argument.
Maybe if the economy was stable,
Buying a good table would be easy.
If good wood would be cheaper,
We’d spent less time in Ikea
Buying flatpack backpacks to
Carry our lives around as we
Rent our way through life.
I have seen too many tabletop games
Played on wooden floors and carefully angled doors
Which proves we want what we can’t afford or have.
Maybe it’s your determination for
Deforestation which had added limitations
To the wood industry and consequently tables.

But once again, we’re young and wrong
You’re old and right-wing,
And you’d rather have status quo
Over cash flowing to your children.
But one day, you will learn
Your argument is much like the table I don’t have:
No leg to stand on.

Question from my flatmate