God Bless (Shallow) America

We are free

To be chained to this society

A part of the machine

Oiled and well behaved

Preprogrammed beliefs

God will smite you

We are better

Than everyone

We need to improve

Eat more, be more

Thin is the new in

Big lips

Small hips

Fat ass

Willing to do anything

To be on the VIP

Minors in possession

Manslaughter

Corruption

Traffic

Pollution

The most beautiful

Most heavily medicated

Youngest looking

Society

On the face

Of the planet

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Published on Sunday, June 19, 2011. Filed under: "Poetry"

Such shallow views on life...

Comments on "God Bless (Shallow) America"

On Sunday, March 18, 2018, I IS ME (380) wrote:

I liked this one short but true
On Tuesday, August 26, 2014, Ortolan (214) wrote:

One of my favorite topics in poetry.These should be mailed en masse to D.C. just to give them a brainache and a haunting memory.
A former member wrote: Yikes. felt like every word was a stab..so true, materialism and always attempting to be perfect superficially, trying to make a perfect mirage while everything else is ruined by it...
On Monday, June 20, 2011, lupus tenebrae (860) wrote:

Just the thought makes me cringe, an entire civilization obsessed with false perfection, perhaps even kill for it. Materialism, narcissism, make way for the future. Write onward.
A former member wrote: Oh hell yes! America the Shallow. America the Fake. America isn't what it needs to be. No place is really what it needs to be.