For today's piece, I couldn't help but continue with the same concept as yesterdays piece on being bombarded by media and advertisements. This piece, titled "Abandoned By Greed?" is about how, in a lot of ways, we are brainwashed and manipulated as a society to be something that we aren't, whether we want to or not. We are pressured through media, Hollywood, society, government our environment and peers to be a certain way, think a certain way, act a certain way and dress a certain way as well as have the 'right' car, 'right' friends and 'right' house, 'right' technology, whatever 'right' might mean.
"Abandoned By Greed?" close up
Mixed Media: house paint, oil pastel, ball point pen, correction fluid, pencil, lithography pen, crayon
Thumbs up from me. . . I'm going to share my poem with you now.
ReplyDeleteLord, I’m going crazy and my Wii called me fat.
I’m trying to cure it with Slim Fast and Prozac.
I need to quiet voices inside my head.
The ones that keep saying to go with Geico instead.
They say that I can be all I want to be
If I get the right cell phone plan from AT&T
Then Donna wants to give me an information brochure
On how costly education will buy me a career that’s secure.
One would think a talking dog would say something profound
But Buckley barks about instant credit and a new location downtown
Someone said I could Advance America with a cash advance
But who said it? Was it Check into Cash or was it Title Max?
Another voice reminds me the economy is going down hill.
But I can save myself if I bundle my cable, internet, and phone bill.
I don’t care about endless sell-a-thons or special red tag days
I ain’t buying no Fords, no Chevys, no Toyotas, no Kias or Hyundais.
Shut up stupid voices. I don’t have enough cash to make you disappear.
Oh Lord please have mercy on post-industrial consumer-crazy pioneers.
this is angeles kate...i like ur poem! well said! :)
ReplyDeletehaha...now i am signed in on my own account :) thanks again kate for sharing ur poem and for your compliment! - angeles
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