Thank God for the luxury of ice;
crystalline, jagged, and unnaturally square,
clear, white, and blue.
Thank God for snow, and the melting glaciers
of the Himylayas.
I thank God today
for my trivial icemaker,
and my artificial life.
I cannot even spell Darfur,
but know all the happenings in Paris,
fashion central.
Thank God for my ignorance,
and central air,
and for endless distractions.
Thank God for the luxury
of down pillows,
HDTV, and American Idolotry.
Thank God I know what’s really important,
and for the ability to shut my eyes
and see nothing around me
except my own fat stomach.
Do you want answers?
There are no answers!
Thank God there are no answers, turn up the volume
and relax.
Thank God for ambiguity and selfishness,
Target, and Walmart!
Oh thank God, thank God that the Vietnamese were evil.
And the Iraqis were evil,
the Afghanis, Brits, and Japanese.
Thank God they were evil!
Thank God for clear concience!
Thank God we can bomb those bastards
right back to the stone age
so we can keep our way of life,
way of thinking,
our perversions and distractions,
and our wonderful ice,
wonderful luxurious, crystalline ice.
Submitted by conect11 on 11 June 2007 - 2:57pm.| Updated 11 June 2007 - 4:50pm.
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thanks, it WAS rushed, as I’m at work. I do want to flesh it out more, it felt naked when I was done.
You shocked me
I did not get any sense of irony when you called all those people evil. Surely, please tell me it was there. If any country in the world is evil it is America, the biggest importer of oxygen and exporter of filth. I would like to bomb it back to the stone age except it is people, good people. I thought 911 could have been a brilliant joke except good Americans died. Oh, maybe I am being too serious, I didn’t miss the other ironies. Good poem though
ironic
yes my friend, there is an extreme level of irony in this poem. It is about how gluttonous and selfish we Americans are. The fact is, clean water and ice are luxurys(sp) is many parts of the world, and we take them, and far grander things, for granted.
evil
the irony in the evil comment is that is how things were taught to us in school when I was young, that the Vietnamese, etc. were evil. After speaking to people from all over the world in my adulthood I have come to realize that most people in the world get up in the morning, (or whenever)get dressed, go to work, and go about their daily routine.It’s the small handful of ignorant people (some are “extremists,” some are in charge) that make the world rotten.