Day 22 Prompt: Society
Title: Twenty-Two
The stage is set, and the powers that be, think that all
We need is some more pageantry, to forget the need for food in our bellies, and seek too
Enthuse us with glittering carriages, whilst claiming they can't afford to put money in our pockets, and
Now they are wasting millions on pointless artistic similes, to create historical artefacts
That will adorn the walls in palaces, well beyond the likes of me and
You, the salt and pepper society of this dying world, that oil the wheels of industry, who
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Those wittering politicians think should be happy and proud of the State
Who the hell do they think we are, for only those who are drowning in
Opulence would dare to think or say something like that aloud
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PoetryFirst, this poetic short story was written for Versification Wattpad Poetry's month-long poetry writing challenge in support of the National Poetry Writing Month NaPoWriMo. It is a series of thirty acrostic poems that will address the current ecolog...
