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free on credit

Posted: April 18th, 2011, 2:26 pm
by saw
they institutionalized her

doesn't sound too bad, does it
it's the PC way that families use,
when they really want to say,
Oh, you didn't hear
she's in the nut house

they put her on a weight loss diet
it was called Thorazine and Shocks
let her watch plenty of TV
this is how she learned to trick them
when her shrink asked her how she felt

she told him she had an uncontrollable urge
to buy things with plastic cards

they released her

Re: free on credit

Posted: April 18th, 2011, 6:50 pm
by constantine
spastic on plastic - the great society.

Re: free on credit

Posted: April 18th, 2011, 11:13 pm
by judih
like a Rorschach test
you see what you see
'free on credit' - brilliant

Re: free on credit

Posted: April 19th, 2011, 2:31 pm
by dadio
fine poem & theme.

Re: free on credit

Posted: April 19th, 2011, 6:17 pm
by mnaz
sometimes it seems the whole damn economy is a "house of (plastic) cards." and the wind is starting to pick up. are we broke yet?

Re: free on credit

Posted: April 19th, 2011, 11:02 pm
by stilltrucking
they consumerized her.

neat poem
thanks

Re: free on credit

Posted: April 20th, 2011, 8:45 pm
by edsiejka
Great poem...sad but accurate. Only God protects the elderly.

Re: free on credit

Posted: April 21st, 2011, 4:57 pm
by saw
thanx for all the great comments.....it's cool to hear what people are thinking....feeling........peace & happy writing.......it's spring !

Re: free on credit

Posted: April 22nd, 2011, 10:56 pm
by snowman
funny and sad at the same time