this isn't a poem...

[fayefaye]

Balance Sheet


Tort law.
The paper, the numbers, the words and the figures.

Skyscrapers. Power.
Phallic symbols.
People who put a price on organs, on kidneys on uteruses.
On their own ****ing children.
Damages Assessment.
How much are you worth?
Quadreplegia. An overstatement of damages.
Being a quadriplegic is worth less than you got at trial.
Give us back our money.
Bottom lines. Guiding Beacons.

Lies.
Destroyed evidence.
Falsified hopes and dreams.
Deformed babies. Thalidomide.
Bottom lines.


More than 9000 Women exploited.
Their uterus is gone now.
Bottom lines.
Others gave their lives that your company might prosper.
Death. Drugs. Sex.
Do you wipe front to back or back to front?
Cross examination at trial.
Undermine the witness.
Delay, delay, delay.

Corrupt regulatory bodies.
Obstruct and delay regulatory interventions.
‘financial incentives.’


Vexatious and frivolous litigants.
Damned lawyers, they should be the lab rats.


Self interest.
Drugs.
Sex.
Money.
Death.
Bottom line.

[Helga]

Why do you say that this isn't a poem?
I think it is, not the old conventional style but it's really good, exactly what an artist/poet should do. This really reminds of an Icelandic poet and author, I don't know many 'new age' poets in the UK or America so I can't say much about that, but here this is a very well known style. and I really liked it, the rythm is so good and you say 'bottom line' at so good places it fit's well in. I want to see more of this from you!

[mono]

Wow, fayefaye. If you do not call this poetry, then I remain stumped of how to define this amazing piece . . . I hardly know what to say. :redface:

[Koa]

This is just INGENIOUS - and take it as a double recognition cos I don't like Futurism and therefore visual poetry and stuff like that...but this is just great (maybe because, unlike a lot of Futurist stuff, it does make some sense and is written with a mind beyond, not just for the sake of doing something that doesnt follow the usual lines...) Really ingenious work.

[amuse]

faye, you are lying; you have never lied that i can remember ;) but you have really, truly fibbed.

this is a poem, dear one. :thumbs_up


* & btw, i beg you to write more.

later...it reminds me of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. the architecture of this piece is really dazzling.

[Avalive]

Whatever it is, it's a unique piece. I like it.

PS, damn lawyers ( I shout with you )

[fayefaye]

wow... thanks. A lot of it is actually taken - paraphrased - from articles and cases I had to read. I felt like I was about to LOSE MY MIND confronted with such unbelieveable immorality. Companies who knowingly market products DIRECTLY to those who THEY KNOW they are likely to injure (in the case of the Copper 7 IUD). Others who don't remove deadly drugs from the market (Upjohn) and try to avoid regulation authorities. People who will SUCCESSFULLY sue doctors for giving birth to HEALTHY CHILDREN ('their own ****ing children' - a case from the high court of AUstralia) the whole thing makes me sick.