Date Posted:02:48:06 09/17/01 Mon Author: WindWalker Subject: EVIL IN SOCIETY
EVIL IN SOCIETY
Are there people on this world
who take pleasure from inflicting pain?
Need one ask?
Two men pound each other’s flesh
in an arena
to the cheers of thousands
and money flows!
There are those who rejoice
at the thought of war;
bullies who beat up on the weak;
endless movies where the gun
is bigger than the gunman!
How does society in general
respond? Well, it’s alright
for adults to brutalize each other
but (says current wisdom)
children should not do so
in a school yard or on the street:
– it is not nice –
Why not, may I be so bold to ask?
Is it because no way has been found
to squeeze a buck or two
from this particular form of brutality?
The point of my asking?
Does ‘society’ have a soul?
Does it have empathy?
Does it feel the pain it condones?
Inflicts?
Causes?
Supports?
Encourages?
Don’t get on my case:
I’m the poet. I ask the tough questions.
