List: Society/Social comment

• Put-down

  / / / / / / / / / I bought a book / About positive thinking. / / I had a positive thought. / / And I put it down. / / / / /

  35 words, 16 comments, on May 15 3:48 PM 2007
• Tour de Farce

  / / Look at me - I can fly / I have the wings of an angel / and the strength of a god / able to suffer what men / should not / / When it

  192 words, 11 comments, on Jul 27 2:36 AM 2007
• Not in front of the children

  125 words, 18 comments, on Aug 3 2:13 AM 2007. In Adult, Life, Rant, Society
• An Unkindness of Ravens

  / / / She stood squat and square, / bluebottle-black hair / to her shoulders. / she had no neck. / / Her gaze, downward, unblinking /

  84 words, 20 comments, on Oct 12 12:29 PM 2007
• Doggy People

  / / If a dog is a man's best friend then I am sure / Goddammit, that guy needs to get out more. / For though a mutt may love him, rich or

  65 words, 15 comments, on Oct 29 1:55 PM 2007
• Christmas with the Celtic Tiger

  144 words, 9 comments, on Nov 29 10:46 AM 2007. In Life, Humor, Adult, Contemporary, Society
• Samurai

  / Jimmy loved knives / how they looked / how they shone / the sweep of the blade / the heft in the hand / / he used to boast / he had forty of them / including a real Samurai sword / hanging on his bedroom wall / / that

  68 words, 4 comments, on Dec 20 7:26 AM 2007
• Capital

  98 words, 9 comments, on Jan 7 6:49 PM. In Adult, Dark, Life, Love, Rant, Society, Spiritual, Weird
• Designer Labels

  / The Spending Game / I am unique. / There is nobody quite like me. / At least that’s what the mass media would have me believe. / Beli

  207 words, 17 comments, on Jan 14 5:17 PM
• Colosseums

  / / meeting old men / is like reading / about the Roman Empire / / it had its day / / but it shrivelled away / (they all drank / and

  74 words, 6 comments, on Feb 21 7:35 AM. In Life, Humor
• Torn Stockings

  / / / / Only a certain woman / can wear torn stockings. / Demure, polite, unsure? / No way. / A whore? / Just shoddy packaging. /

  235 words, 32 comments, on Mar 2 3:08 AM
• 2084

  soon nobody will venture
  beyond their own front door

  127 words, 6 comments, on Mar 6 11:38 AM. In Society
• Alarm Bells

  229 words, 4 comments, on Mar 26 9:52 AM. In Adult, Society, Doom
• Rat

  / / / He's got the poor mouth on him. / the last man in Ireland / with an outside loo / and no electricity / / he's proud of that

  94 words, 9 comments, on Apr 7 2:46 PM
• Pre Fab

  After World War / Two / they melted down all the bombers / and made prefab-ricated housing / / talk about forging swords / into ploughshares / / All over Britain / there were neat rows / of pretty white houses on

  122 words, 18 comments, on Nov 2 12:10 AM 2006
• Older Women

  93 words, 37 comments, on Nov 9 9:13 AM 2006
• The Difference

  234 words, 20 comments, on Nov 24 8:53 AM 2006
• Bad Boy for Christmas

  Dear Santa, / / Please send me a bad boy for Christmas- / just like I’ve always dreamed of / tempestuous and smouldering- / the kind you’d lick whipped cream off / / Give me all the trimmings / six-pack, dark and flashing eyes! / Don

  314 words, 30 comments, on Dec 6 5:20 PM 2006
• Shopping for the Apocalypse

  282 words, 19 comments, on Jan 7 12:20 PM 2007
• Cats and Dogs ( in response to Celestialpie's 'Because')

  352 words, 14 comments, on Jan 25 8:32 AM 2007
• National Pride (on the occasion of Ireland v. France at Croke Park

  413 words, 10 comments, on Feb 12 5:11 PM 2007
• Cafe Provence

  156 words, 7 comments, on Mar 15 1:07 PM 2007
• Sex in an alleyway

  217 words, 26 comments, on Mar 30 1:26 AM 2007. In Adult, Society
• Bewilderbeest

  307 words, 6 comments, on Apr 18 5:44 PM 2007
• Jesus and the Nazis

  444 words, 27 comments, on Aug 7 4:14 PM 2006
• Waiting for Spiderman

  279 words, 12 comments, on Aug 22 5:23 PM 2006
• Like Most Men

  393 words, 24 comments, on Oct 13 3:17 PM 2006
• Can (or 'What if Polar Bears were Idealists?' )

  224 words, 24 comments, on Oct 17 9:15 AM 2006

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