ARTIFICIAL BLUES



I've got those polystyrene plastic
Artificial blues,
All the good things in life
Are now left unused.

My milk is mere powder
Powder and warm water,
My diet is receding,
Can't get much shorter.
My clothes are synthetic
Pathetic artificial wool,
The world has been taken over
By such bloody fools.

Even my meat now
Is really just rice bread,
Instead of real wheat
Now I'm eating lead.
Artificial coloured
And sweetened too,
Artificially preserved now
And tasting like spew.

THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts

About this poem

Another song lyric from the 1970s.

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Written on 1977

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 30, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXXX BBXBAXBX CDXDXECE XX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 492
Words 87
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 8, 8, 2

Phil Roberts

I turn 65 on the 31st of January 2022. I love cats, rock music, and horror fiction and poetry more…

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