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Skin is wearing thin

John E Marks
2 min readAug 13, 2022

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Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

Homo sapiens have out grown their use.
Long in the tooth, but not sharp at all
They snarl at each other
As they queue in the supermarket
For the bargains.

Humans defame the dignity.
Of the wild animals
They abuse, flay alive, eat.
Dogs, chimps, lions, gazelle.
Any living thing on their road to hell.

Homo sapiens have no shame
They seek to inflame each other
By their diseased behaviour
To discourage the pale decencies
Of life. Their stupidity enrages me.
They spit, fart, masturbate.
Massacre the innocents
Delight in petty conquests
Full of greed and cowardice
In their refusal to take real risks.
They boast in their obesity
Are terrified of death

They admire their own reflections in skewed mirrors.

They never sink into a sunset nor rise to a sunrise
They do not read the signs or signals of our lives.
They mock children’s innocence,
Condemn the naive, the…

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John E Marks
John E Marks

Written by John E Marks

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot

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