Sociology of Water

May 31, 2012 in Wordsmoker Poetry

I thought I was communicating
over a spread corpse of linguistic philosophy.
But somewhere forgetful
to all life

there is some movement to be made.
All my other senses calibrated,
like balancing on a new height.

Coming from slop,
a gender-funny fish to model,
I understand how the humans fumble.

I cannot laugh
such an obscene pulse
unreturned by the muck.

I want to change
time, perhaps by
throwing it down to a proposal.

I could shake you senseless
from your wretched streets,
all your class, and your age.

You would look to these things anyway
loudly with each thrash.
It would seep in.

Ask me if I want to earn a dollar
for every wasted molecule
the dollar swallows.

A finite lost between the words

(however, I snap the necks)

of those who touch these places
constantly
without consent.

 

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kausaustralisandsaturn/ Worthless Emo

    I guess this is for the economics professor who passed me.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kausaustralisandsaturn/ Worthless Emo

    Which makes no sense the way I worded the title, but ignore that. Economics is a societal construct anyway.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    Ask me if I want to earn a dollar
    for every wasted molecule
    the dollar swallows.

    I can’t quite wrap my head around this. I feel like I’m looking into a pair of parallel mirrors.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kausaustralisandsaturn/ Worthless Emo

    Oh yea. Poetry does that.

    That stanza in particular is speaking to the biology of ruined economies. Not just the biology of the people, (of each class), but of the Earth subject to consumerism (as non-valued consumption with no control mechanisms to balance).