972 - Control

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

to use the three words of the week in a composition.

The words this week are: 

parched, rotund, scandalous.

Control

“Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. 

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

-George Orwell

Rotund men

In pinstripe suits 

And tall glass towers

Control our lives.

Yes, it is scandalous.

But we do nothing,

Feel we can do nothing.

That is their power.

That is how they

Control our lives.

We let them.

Like the man lost

In the desert—

Delusional, parched,

Desperate.

We crawl to wards

The mirage

Of hope.  Hope

That things will improve

It we behave.

That is how they

Control our lives.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2017

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