An Unengaging Poem about a Peacock that Nobody Cares About

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At the shack by the dock I saw a peacock

Swaying gracefully, side to side, feeding her peachicks

Amicably, lovingly, tenderly guarding their lives like a tightly fastened lock

Twas profound; twas at the core of life itself, but it made me sick

How nobody's interested in a thing like this


Dutifully I march up my stairs to my chamber

Sitting and typing without light in the dark of night

Desperately longing to be the rearranger

Of the nature of man—what shocks him, stimulates him,

Brings him to delight


As when my writings get shipped to and printed by a rotogravure

I am rendered one thing sure

That a peaceful peacock, deliberately performing the essential acts of life, is not in the printing plan

Rather you will see a pettily decorated supercilious man


You'll view him in his pristine clothes—crafted for but having nothing to do with him

You'll gaze at his 7th beautiful wife, his present dramas unfolding, his current whims

Treated as matters of national urgency

Peremptorily I'm obligated to bring this to the press!


While everybody walks by the peacock helping her distressed

Peachicks LIVE on free

while humans lay captivated in superficiality

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