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Old gods lie abandoned
Battered in the bloody dust
Left without a second though
As their clergy arrives here
Given up for American Gods
The god of credit card
of internet, of gossip
The god of celebrity
of entitlement, of pharmaceuticals,
of casual sex
The deities of Tele-(vision and phone)
Do those old gods survive?
The god of virtue
of creativity, of inspiration
The god of life
of history, of health,
of love
The deities of our fathers
Do you remember them?
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Athena lies dead
Ravaged by internet
Hermes, quick wit
Done in by highway
Osiris sleeps, bound
Held by the magics of chemistry
Zeus, thunderstruck
Power grids hold him
Tyr lost his other hand
In the blast of an atom bomb
Ares yet thrives
Wandering the middle east and Africa
Aphrodite enslaved
In the eyes of Hollywood
Cellphone spreads the word
Television is communion
Internet the bible
Banks, your churches
Convenience your reward
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The backwards ways
Of the gods of old
Scorned by the laity
Of the American Gods
The monuments of laserlight
The gospel of the anchorman
The oracle of stockbrokers
The true cross of video
Even the saints of industry
They claim to preserve
No oil, no meat, no impact
Yet their forefathers die
Your American Gods
Have come to save you
From creativity
From having to think
Twinkies, the body
Coke, the blood
For the concealment of sin
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Those American Gods
Start a mission in Europe
Another in China
As the spirits flee
The American Gods
Fight for dominance
To become
The Modern Gods
they hunt down resistors
Through GPS
They destroy them
Through anti-psychotics
Those Modern Gods
Like AIDS and Internet
Invade the world
Of the fallen gods
By: Michael Kane
a really long but i like the message that you are putting out dad.
Oh my GAWD!!!!!!!!!! That was REALLY good Mic!!!!!
Poetrylife: I warned you did I not.
Drummer: I like it.
bro, you're growing up.
i believe this is the first i've seen you write without a rhyme scheme.
i'm proud =]
either way, you succeeded
you have a habit of it
This was the first I showed to my parents, It got rave reviews.
Mom is threatening to sent it to my priest, and she wants me to get a body of work I'm willing to see published. Dad wants me to send it to the family, along with another one "Unheard Words" which I will be posting later.
I was a bit worried about this one and dad because he's really no nonsense about religion and well....
I hoped the intended message would be clear.
She's "threatening" to send it to your priest?
I'm a coward. I'm very hesitant to show anything to anyone, I'm afraid that it won't be received as I intended (there are three messages I draw from it myself) I'd rather not go through the long talk on not making fun of god again. (note to self, do not tell God in a bar jokes in earshot of the bishop.)
****!
******* BRILLIANT!
One thing: is that causal or casual sex? Either works in the phrasing, and I was not sure. =)
I love the Greek and Roman God references--very, very T.S. Eliot.
I've been working on a poem with tons of references for a few days now--it's difficult, eh? You have to research for metaphors. It's actually a continuation of Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, except this is written by J.A. Prufrock's son. It's one of the most difficult things I've ever done.
Props to you, Mentalist. Wow. Great poem.
It's casual sex but I cna't splel smoetmies
Humanity is beautiful when it is humanity.
However, what humanity can become is not beautiful.
I'll explain it with a quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky.
"People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov (The best damned novel of all time.)
