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Adults Don'T Read To Their Children Anymore

The Judas Cow had a self-fulfilling prophesy That he was going to betray his species And lead them all to genocide by way of slaughter He laid down in the road as an alternative His remains were given to a poor family so they might eat well for half a year. When the stock market crashed Chicken Little fell out of bed and broke his back Chuck Little the investment banker (Chicken Little's substitute) Ran to the top of The Empire State Building, yelling "The Stock market is falling! The Stock market is falling!!!" The three little pigs foreclosed on their houses And fully expected a bailout They didn't get it the FatCats in Washington refused They only wanted to bailout the Sheeps on Wall Street And the Monkeys in Detroit The greed meter is broken! The clock is ticking way too fast!! Something has gone terribly awry Even in the Fairy Tales Adults don't read to their children anymore.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 1/5/2009 8:47:00 AM
This is excellent. The narrative is beautifully imaginative and I like how the crisis of the title suggests the crisis of the narrative. I'm not sure that the last stanza is needed. I think that the reader should be left to sum the narration for themselve. But this was a real pleasure to read.
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