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 |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 492 |
Words | 87 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 8, 2 |
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