[Venomous Vixen]

**WARNING** Mature content



Gilded is the cage we lay,
day after day -
Bent over, ankles clutched,
Fucked, by Corporate America.

Tarnished are these greed held bars,
idle scars and hearts -
Stopped beating, stopped dreaming,
Bleeding for Corporate America.

Exits but vanished away,
work saturdays, cut pay -
Pockets lined, fancy suits of silk,
Our milk money feeds Corporate America.

And our kids are starving, hallowed,
beat, bribed and followed -
Sheep in a herd, they observe,
Subserve to Corporate America.

Generations of follow-the-leader,
greedier and greedier -
Sodomized a civilization,
The nation belongs to Corporate America...

[Lubesh]

Biting. Bet it feels good to get one in. Technically, well executed too.and your words powerful, accurate sadly but pwoerful.

[Venomous Vixen]

Originally Posted by Lubesh

Biting. Bet it feels good to get one in.

Mmhmm, bad day at work

[Vorcla]

Hope you feel better, because you let somebody have it. I'm sure they deserved it. You excel at these "zingers," Bri. This one falls under the "sad but true" label. Nicely done, hun.

[Rakkasan]

I love the feel of this. But then, you read my entry for the CFPC#21, and these are both in the same family, so to speak.

There's more to be said. If only we as a nation would wake up and tell them where to stick it all! I was personally screwed by Corporate America, and have watched others get the shaft as well.

You put it all out there so nicely, and in all the truth that was expounded, the one simple word that could possibly be used to effectively sum up the hopelessness of our self-imposed situation, you aptly chose to be the title.

Bravo!

[Venomous Vixen]

Rick - thank you very much!

Rakkasan - Glad you enjoyed the title, it was one of my favorite parts of the whole thing Yes, bloody corporate america, I am stuck in it myself. It's a shame, and more so because I do not see much changing. In fact, even government workers are having things taken right out from under them even with the protection of unions. It's scary really. I see it as one day we will be working and paying them to do so Thank you for reading hun!

[Corneac]

And she's back!Teeth bared and peotic skill making my words hang there head in shame. Your back! I enjoed this to no end - the biting narrative, the harrowing images and the metaphor carried trough, impeccable langaueg and form, as always.

Bent over, ankles clutched,
Fucked, by Corporate America.

This struck me right away. Such a brutal, cringe-worthy, unsettling imgae. But so powerful, and true too. It take kill to profanity in a poem, poetically,a nd fits perfectly, fits the anger and darkness of the poem. Awesome.

Stopped beating, stopped dreaming,
Bleeding for Corporate America.

...and here we go again. Bri and her skill with poetry as a whole, the reptition, the images, the contantcy of metaphor. Your poetry has a discipline, innate really, that mines doesnt'. Which makes it much stronger. I loved how you carried through the image of the next generation.

Our milk money feeds Corporate America.

Generations of follow-the-leader,
greedier and greedier -
Sodomized a civilization

I loved this. Sly repitition. Fantastic. As always. The milk money line was gold, reminded me of ani, lol.

Now write another one! I'm back now, so I can burst your bubble of blow it up, when need be. I enjoyed this though - showded a ide fo you we don't see much; angry, dark...and yet, still empathising. Great job.

[Venomous Vixen]

Thank you very much. As far as our poetry goes - I think it's hard to compare. Yours always blows me away. Glad you enjoyed this one - and yes, Ani, I could see how that would relate lol. Always a pleasure to receive a review from you!

[Jimbalaya]

WOW! What a statement! And so frickin' true! You should e-mail this to the President, Bri. Let 'ol George get a good look! Nicely done!

[Venomous Vixen]

Thank you hun lol. I should, I may be shot though, who knows these days.

[colinbaker62]

Sadly this is true in my view. The nation to which you refer does indeed currently belong to (in the sense of effectively being owned by) 'Corporate America', both legally and ideologically. In his 1984 work 'The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class', the social scientist, Kees van der Pijl adopts a neo-Gramscian approach, describing the domestic ideology of the USA as that of 'corporate liberalism'. This ideology it is argued, also serves as a unifying, transnational ideology for the capitalist class globally. It is a persuasive argument.



Colin

[Venomous Vixen]

You have perked my interest, I will have to look into that. Thank you for reading!