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pieces of fried chicken
       tastelessly
laid on top of the stars and stripes
flag
just about says it all
an advert for KFC
wipe your hands with its infection
the greasy filthy muck mess
seeps into western world
the crushed protest it all
root beer and milk shakes
gun shots and bomb quakes
on the back of oil lakes
just about says it all
give me a root beer
give me dear uncle Sam
and atom bomb drop dram
                         Buick
                               Cadillac
                                        ham heuy
                                    helicopter
                  viet nam
                              give me fbi and CIA
give me obescites body decay
and lay me down
like the chicken pieces
deep fried
KFC and burger king
grunge metal muck to sing
dollar bill and and all it brings
in invasions
stars and stripes
CBS hypes it up
Opra Winfrey tummy tuck
taught us all
subliminal television
polluted supersized  and small
Pepsi cola lip smack tongue tied
commercialism
consumerism volleyball
pass it on then
American dream
lets have a piece of cheesecake pie
turn my country lane
into route 66 ecology die out
massive slathering monster machines
rocket pricks on the moon
whats it bring but dust
another lamp post to pee on if you must
make your mark
make your mark
you bullet hole in central park
you howling hyena bark
of war machinery
a laser beams
fast food outlet
burstin Jean seams
means greed
over consume
brush waste with broom
and bury
waste of time out of tune
with mother nature
evacuate spit out
gone off bottle of milk shake
delayed reaction splayed out
like a star shape your arms and legs
your dreary dregs of dwindling resources
your apocalyptic horses
ride with the autonomous
to do the dirty work the drones
the cordless phones connect
the sat nav guided shells
the imploding everlasting hell
on earth
stars and stripes for what its worth
no not thanks colonel sanders
no thanks maccy die
no thanks obesity
no thanks
not for me.

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Anthony Emmerson

Mon 4th May 2009 14:00

Hi Pete,
Liked this one muchly. Not so much political as consumerist; a shout for individuality and choice, for the voice of the citizen being heard over the roar of commercial interest. Hate KFC - the cheapeast and cruellest methods to rear the most tasteless and un-nutritious food imaginable - so much so it has to be coated in chemicals to make it even remotely palatable (and addictive.) Reads well, nice one.
Regards,
A.E.

Pete Crompton

Sat 2nd May 2009 14:16



"Hi Peter,
i'm not political and you know it so i won't go there. :-)

I actually like Kentucky fried chicken burgers and fries with a large coke. I can live without it but i do enjoy it on occasion. Maybe i should eat more. I could do with a bit of meat on my bones. Keep out the cold, wintry stuff for good!

Janet.x


"

Janet thats so honest!!!!!!!!!!! and yes thats how it works, the mono sodium has such lasting appeal, such binding temptation, never goes awy.

are the word police watching> ? I said 'binding temptation' makes no sense, oh dear.

Thanks Janet for reading
Steve e o cheers n Gus ma dears.

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Steve Regan

Sat 2nd May 2009 13:20

"burstin Jean seams
means greed" -- quintessentially Crompton.

People shouldn't eat mass produced, globally marketed, greased up food. When society industrializes food, the stuff ceases to be food. It is not sourced locally; the ingredients are not prepared with love, so it is not food.

Pete, they are still talking in New Brighton about your appearance at last month's Bards. Come again.

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Sat 2nd May 2009 12:30

Hi Peter,
i'm not political and you know it so i won't go there. :-)

I actually like Kentucky fried chicken burgers and fries with a large coke. I can live without it but i do enjoy it on occasion. Maybe i should eat more. I could do with a bit of meat on my bones. Keep out the cold, wintry stuff for good!

Janet.x

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Gus Jonsson

Sat 2nd May 2009 08:01

There is another side to the USA read the late Alister Cooke...or listen to some of his recorded
Letter from America...but it did take Englishman to do it... All in all I suppose that you are not far away..but isn't it here already with a different accent same consumerism after all???

The poem is wonderful, English and full of passion... just like you
Love it
PS I 'm off for my Op next Thursday... when I get out ...we must get together for a serious discussion re set up logistics etc, ... I take you are still interested??
Gus

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clarissa mckone

Sat 2nd May 2009 03:50

very nice poem, fast pace. I know yall dont see things that we do, and we see things yall dont. On a nice note, Colonel Sanders was said to be a very nice ,humble man, true or not, I cant say. For Southern Mothers on a Sunday, he made life a bit more easy. You could go get all that would be a normal dinner.I dont recall us doing that. Fried chicken, fresh beens, and mashed potatos and gravy was the norm, with biscuits. Then it was time for Bluebell ice cream. Those were the days of milk and honey. A ride on a tractor, through the cotton fields, to see the oil wells. Those days are over, everyones fat and lazy, on drugs, and I could go on and on. They are druged, by the ones in power!Polluted by the ones in power. I hope they change. Ps nothing better the a milk shake or a rootbeer float! Home made fried chicken is the BOMB!!!! Cool poem, wish I was not from such a hated place, its not all bad yall, and others helped the problems happen and they live with yall.

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