Put Down

The horse with a limp needs to be
Put down.
The noisy president from that threatening Western Asia country deserves to be
Put down.
The telephone land line should be abandoned and
Put down
Like the once dominant Blackberry that is already being
Put down.
The boy band of the day is required to be
Put down.
Finnegan's Wake is unreadable and a book to be
Put down.
Pictures of food on Twitter should be outlawed and
Put down.
Critics who say that Jackson Pollock's paint dripping canvases are great art should be
Put down.
People who mistake sex for love will eventually be
Put down.
Those who are intolerant of other's failings can be
Put down.
People who are not honest should be
Put down, just as
the anger in this prose should be
Put down.

© Poem Fix http://www.poemfix.com 2012
Photo: Britannica

Claiming Victory

I am trying to think of a way to say
I don't appreciate you
As a human being,
But I won't.
Taking action would reveal the
Size of my ego,
So I'll remain silent.
In you I see someone with an
Angry heart
That demands justification,
Judges people,
Tears them down.
This observation makes me
Just as judgmental, and
Perhaps even a worse person,
Doubly so
Because I observe your failings and
Decide they are faulty.
I measure myself and others as better and
Choose to do nothing.
Your failings are honest and transparent;
Mine are complex, calculated, suppressed.
Please end my misery.
Provide relief by calling me out and
Claiming victory.

© Poem Fix http://www.poemfix.com 2012

Photo by Christopher Walker