"My People...Listen" (IE)

[Phoenix.]

"My People....Listen"

The media reigns a menace,
over a battle field of strikes
pay-cuts cause dismay,
as stuntmen devote aimlessly
to be replaced by a 3D cinema
and shows made for the people,
become a cardboard audience.

"...Please Listen"
[Climbs onto his cardboard podium,]
[placed strategically on the sidewalk.]

reality has become surreal
love became emotionless,
drug fueled actresses
become anorexic to appeal.

entertainment screams
but the producers misread cries,
"we know we're killing you,
but we'll keep giving you more...
reasons to weep."

[Ignorance is bliss]

"You are being mislead"
"fine i'll take things into my own hands"

the radio is extinct,
even nature looks on in pity
that something so pure,
the music, the energy
was given a face,
now staring aimlessly.
and now the face of music
is only being a vessel for porn.

[A broadcast intercepts all Media Airwaves]

"My People.... Listen"
...
"Transmition ends tonight."

[Power Failure]

D a r k n e s s

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[Keeby Swaggz]

wow... I don't know what to say with this... well written, descriptive, with vivid imagery... it's deep, and thoughtful, and it's a very poignant perspective of the way our society is rotting... at least, that's the meaning I took from it... anyway... very creative, nice job...

[Spoken Deity]

I like a lot of this...
You had some beautiful descriptive lines, with some emotional depths and intelligence. I liked how 'political' it was and how original you came with a played topic. I enjoyed this read...Your picture used was brilliant as well.
I noticed a place or two where your grammar could have been better to help the reader stop, start, and continue sentences. I liked this sir.
Keep it up!

[abiona]

found myself nodding my head to parts of this. very strong statements... and i think the shortness of your lines and directness of your language really helped to allow those statements to hit hard.

i wish you had one final stanza to wrap it all up at the end.. but then again, i kind of like how it broke off right after the line about the music... along the lines of 'we interrupt this broadcast...etcetcetc'

worked the structure to your advantage. nicely done.