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Where crowds unconsciously worship despair,
Indulging in dangers of constant self-pity
With naive belief in the world's being fair.

They have no trust in a man's inner power,
And fortitude sounds like something unknown.
They have no poets, just ones of an hour,
Who drown at once in the thoughts of their own.

With greed they consume plain illusions for dinner,
And dress them with lies when they serve the new dishes
To those so-called "pathological sinners"
Who find someone else's delusions delicious.

They have Friday liter-mates rather than friends
To mark that the week of no favor is ending,
But even with glasses of spirits in hands
They look worse than misery. Are they pretending?
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A Desperate City

Contributed by April90 on Sunday, 1st February 2009 @ 07:58:02 AM in AEST
Topic: Lifepoems

Hello to you from the gray gloomy city,
Where crowds unconsciously worship despair,
Indulging in dangers of constant self-pity
With naive belief in the world's being fair.

They have no trust in a man's inner power,
And fortitude sounds like something unknown.
They have no poets, just ones of an hour,
Who drown at once in the thoughts of their own.

With greed they consume plain illusions for dinner,
And dress them with lies when they serve the new dishes
To those so-called "pathological sinners"
Who find someone else's delusions delicious.

They have Friday liter-mates rather than friends
To mark that the week of no favor is ending,
But even with glasses of spirits in hands
They look worse than misery. Are they pretending?

Copyright © April90 ... [ 2009-02-01 07:58:02]
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Re: A Desperate City (User Rating: 1 )
by desireemiote on Sunday, 1st February 2009 @ 04:04:19 PM AEST
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sounds like too many cities I know of. good write

Re: A Desperate City (User Rating: 1 )
by Incognito_Bombastus on Sunday, 1st February 2009 @ 11:58:59 PM AEST
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Wonderful, hardly a stich or word out of place. It was as if reading my own thoughts my own observations. This is a fine piece of relavent work to any & all. Thank You I.B.

Re: A Desperate City (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Monday, 2nd February 2009 @ 04:26:44 PM AEST
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that sounds like my home town! great write friend, you capture despair so well.

-phil

Re: A Desperate City (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Wednesday, 18th February 2009 @ 04:54:53 AM AEST
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Excellent metaphors of what seems to me to be about the pretentiousness of society.

Me likes!!!

Thank you,

Tim

Re: A Desperate City (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Wednesday, 18th February 2009 @ 04:55:16 AM AEST
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