This is provides excellent: This is provides excellent reading, but those last three paragraphs are very, very profound. I am not usually a prose reader, but I am very impressed with this one.
Justice Wolf: Howl, our victim is stuffed
Like the turkey he just
Greedily gross gluttonized
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Oh, impossible riddles
Surround the cemetery-
How the ghosts know,
Blanketing corpses cozy
Urban dictionary: And then there's the potential product of puzzling it all together through multiple generations and coming out with one's own personalized slanguage.
Newborn=fresh flesh: Long as you don't cry when the tordando sweeps it up and you're left with insuffient funds for your family's survival rations. Who'll be dancing then?
Are you starting a dance crazy? Everyone do The Ironic. : A catchy dance for kids and adults, a like. We already have the steps down and don't even know it.
"I've been doing really well at managing my money this year -
Should I reward myself with a sixty two inch t.v.?"
An ironic mega-pizza! Over: An ironic mega-pizza! Over the years it would appear that each generation and cohort would capture and be captured by certain words and phrases that stick and become their descriptors. It's an amazing phenomenon.
The Fuzzy novels of H. Piper: The Fuzzy novels of H. Piper Beam were among favourirte sci-fi of our growing years. And Nicholas Fisk among more recent ones, by recent meaning early 80s. THe double entendre is that Mars is the god of war hence "martian gods," hence harping at both meanings.
I agree completely with: I agree completely with Pungus' comment. The poem is very somber, but after seeming earthbound (for lack of a better term), it springs---no!, unleashes---that final line on the unsuspecting reader. I enjoy subtle science fiction poems---and this is one of the subtlest I have read in a long, long time.