“Consumerism is eating the future.” Andy Coghlan
The Cost The serpent of eden slithered into the malls of life whispering songs of inadequacy, songs of desire, and we all sang those ego spirituals as earnest acolytes of self-deception, seeking salvation in virginal blister packs promising thirty seconds of youthful orgasm at the cost of barren, sterile soil and a pile of dead leaves, leaving us with a fetish for auto asphyxiation in a heavenly glaze. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Well said. I confess to liking the irregular retail therapy but the older I get, the less enticing it has become.
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Yes, I think it is quite human, the exec Lebow quipped in the 1950s that consumerism was the only way forward for survival and we like sheep followed. I think as a therapy it works and that is so attractive. Thank you for sharing Pat.
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How true
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Life would be so much better without that serpent.
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Wow. Poetic mastery. Poignant message
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shopping shopping shopping…. we need more stuff…. snake slithering star… greed… inadequacies.. it’s all there…. we just don’t have enough….. im kinda sad…. can i say excellent poem….
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Amazing imagery! Powerful poem. Agree with your point as well. Bravo👍👍
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Thank you so much, really appreciate your response to this 🙂
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Pleasure 😊🙏❤
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Wow! You have extended my thoughts about overconsumption to a whole new poetic level. 👏🏻
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One of my hobby horses I’m afraid, I get so wound up about greed and the effect on the environment. Thank you Michele.
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More people should get wound up. Keep at it! Thank you.
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Yes, a torrent of interest in the matter would be wonderful, thank you so much Michele.
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I concur. You are welcome. Thank you!
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WOW Paul. This is such a deep poem with such hidden mening. It is extremely powerful. And as for that serpent! And do I see the thirty pieces of silver there or am I imagining it? Anyway, it is an amazing poem – as is all your poetry
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There is a hint of the thirty pieces, a kind of nod to our betrayal of nature/creation, very perceptive, and many thanks for your response and for engaging with this.
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The cost of Grrreed?
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O yes indeed.
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Well said, Paul! We don’t need all that stuff, apart from books of course 😉
Curiously enough, I’m just taking a quick break from writing a scene which is set in a mall. Stranger too, I’d also rewarded myself, mid-afternoon watching a clip from Wild Earth Africa – a 6ft black mamba sliding through the bush.
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Uncanny, how things give hints in other places of our seemingly unconnected lives 🙂 Thank you Chris.
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Six degrees of separation? Fewer over here!
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Yes, we share small degree options 🙂
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you Chuck 🙂
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Always a pleasure to read and share your posts with followers, Paul!! Have a great weekend! 😊👍✨✨🎉
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The truth in a nutshell.:-) Michael
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Thank you so much Michael.
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We’re paying a very high price indeed for our rampant consumerism. Shopping malls are among the most alienating places on the planet for me.
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I have gone days beyond need rather than go, loathe those places, sterile, vacuous, deceitful valleys. I feel the life draining out of me if I have to go.
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I couldn’t agree more. What surprised me when my daughter was in high school that kids hung out in the mall. Why?? When I was in high school, we hung out in the park, usually, or some other place outside, with trees and flowers and birds and stuff.
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Me too, the park was the place or the beach, someones yard, it was wonderful, malls are so awful so yes, why?
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Powerful poem = love it
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Thank you so much.
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