763 - On The Other Hand

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #182) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:

machine, flesh, tease, lotion, gimmick, hypnotizing,

lust, chickens, torture, uniform, liquor, brains, trains

On The Other Hand

There are machines that take our jobs

But do ones that have been fatal to children in the past.

Whores sell their flesh

But some use the money to educate and feed their family.

Advertisers tease us

But commerce is what pays for our jobs.

The cosmetics industry sells fake lotions

But placebos have been shown to work.

Every week there is a new gimmick

But we crave variety and change.

We are hypnotized by affluence

But few can really achieve it.

We are expected to lust for more

But we live in a finite world.

We imprison people

But demand chickens be released from their cages.

We are promised uniform opportunity

But the promise is never kept.

We are told we over-consume liquor

But have seen the effects of prohibition.

Our brains are used to devise evil things

But they devise miraculous things as well.

The media trains us to be compliant

But we sometimes rebel when we see a wrong.

We take firm ‘moral’ stands on every issue

But refuse to consider the value of the other side.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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