{"id":1061,"date":"2007-09-13T06:48:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T06:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2007-09-13T06:48:17","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T06:48:17","slug":"civilised-ways-two-poems-by-gary-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/civilised-ways-two-poems-by-gary-beck\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilised ways – two poems by Gary Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aging Vessel<\/p>\n

<\/span>My brittle skeleton<\/span>
is trapped in the prison <\/span>
of my festering flesh<\/span>
and keeps my soul an inmate,<\/span>
clinging to my splintering bones<\/span><\/p>\n

Philosophic Ramblings<\/span>

In the coincidence of life<\/span>
we postpone death daily,<\/span>
yet rarely seek higher purpose.<\/span>

Now that we have been mastered<\/span>
by the seductive video screen<\/span>
we are victims of electronics.<\/span>

Evil conspires with gravity<\/span>
and pulls us down, down,<\/span>
as we substitute spectation<\/span>
for entangling alliances.<\/span>

The grievances that rasp our hearts<\/span>
devour the pleasure of our days<\/span>
and stir seething cauldrons of hate<\/span>
that will spill on our tomorrows.<\/span>

Man is the cruelest animal<\/span>
exceeding any creature of nature<\/span>
in torture, mayhem and destruction.<\/span>

We are raised in the garden of greed<\/span>
and become trapped in the ghetto of need.<\/span>

The unkind earth eats us all.<\/span>

Death smiles when chill creeps in our bones.<\/span>

Humanity, our dysfunctional family.<\/span>


\u2022 Gary Beck's poetry and fiction has appeared in numerous publications. His chapbook <\/span>The<\/span> Conquest of Somalia<\/span> will be published by Cervena Barva Press. His plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off-Broadway.<\/span>


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