Opium is the religion of the masses

[tectak]

Opium is the religion of the masses
 
The rich throw us under their mill,
indiscriminately grind our flesh & bones,
yet forbid us poppies to succor
our mental anguish or quite our pitiful moans.
 
erthona
 
©2017 

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Opium is the religion of the masses
 
The rich throw us under their mill,
indiscriminately grind our flesh & bones,
yet forbid us poppies to succor
our mental anguish or quite our pitiful moans.
 
erthona
 
©2017 

Hi Dale...it is I. Pop-up poetry from you...whatever next? Immediate though is, why? I happily conceed that you must have had a Damascus moment to produce this miniscule and seemingly weighty thought but I am damned if I can get the measure of the mass....speaking Newtonially. I am left feeling "so what"? Thing is, the leftist clarion call is always unchanging and pitifully but genuinely predictable. All I can do with it is to  bitch on about the bits I feel are unworthy of you as a seer of things which others do not see...so....what or where is "under" the mill? Under the hammer, under the the cosh...yep...but THROUGH the mill, surely? Why indiscriminately? How would discrimination work in the flesh and bone grinding process...I don't see it. I don't see it at all. So...where is this going? Well, for me you need to get off the soap-box and give this minimalist quanta a raison d'etre. I.mean, no rhyme, scan, shaky metaphorical whinge BUT the poppy contra could and should be expanded...Papaver somniferum has a beautiful intonation...write the poem.
Bemused,
tectak