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Gawker - Repost


I originally posted this personal fave on 2-10-17.



Something tragic just happened up ahead,
somebody got hurt real bad ...
someone might even be dead
So you slow your car down,
just to take a peek
Peer out your window
for a quick look-see
Why is it that you're so fixated
on seeing someone else's misery?

Gawker,
you ain't nothing but
a passing by gore stalker
Always got an eagle eye
for any ambulances flying by

You love to feed on someone's suffering,
snap-chat pictures of their pain
You never seem to get enough,
you always stop ... time and time again

Gawking is your favorite pastime;
looking at the sobbing faces,
broken-hearted spirits huddled in dismay
This always makes your day

Giddy is your gawk,
the more carnage there is to look at
You circle in like a hawk ...
The more onlookers fret,
the more your curiosity gets whet
And closer to the accident scene you must get

Because you're a gawker,
that is what cam condor gawkers do
Should someone be taking their final dying breath,
a ghoulish gawker 
will always want the last vulture view

Gawker,
you ain't nothing but
a mobile morgue stalker
Always got a roving eye
for any ambulances flying by

You love to feast on someone's suffering,
rub your owl eyes in their moist, blinding pain
You never seem to get enough,
you always stop ... 
nighttime or daytime      Again and again

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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Date: 12/14/2019 4:40:00 PM
this brings to mind questions whether it's feasting on suffering (you could go gawk at the homeless or look at pictures of starving children etc) or just a morbid fascination to see blood spill - kinda like people who go to boxing matches or bull runs, then there are those who will faint at the sight of blood...why horror movies are so effective when they splash the red all over! It seems to bring on a kind of adrenaline rush in a very base way? Gore stalkers.. good one! Enjoyed the read :)
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Date: 12/14/2019 8:54:00 AM
So true though Freddie, what is it with us humans that we have to satisfy our curiosity is it that we might be able to help or just want a picture, strange beings, humans. Tom.
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