My Answer To Diane Hine ….. [see Her Poem Mankind's Survival ….Or Not; Perhaps Tongue-In-Cheek; Fairly Short] Poem by Bri Edwards

[not b or c or d. a in part. but also e]


e) Forced by desperation and doubt,
the weathered survivors cast about,
and no longer saved the lives of those..
too old or feeble to reach their own …….
…..toes.

Those who could not or would not work,
though young, were eaten, ….feet to tongue.
Medicines to save dying babes, and the old, and …
cancer and ‘bad-heart' patients, etc., was sold ….
to those who could pay the steadily rising prices.
No longer would it be doled out to the ‘poorer', in slices …
…of government handouts.

Another 'tool' was mandated family planning, to control population,
increasing or decreasing, as varied from nation to nation.
No more vacation flights, as most planes were grounded.
Few conveniences and longer work hours, as before 'civilizations' were founded.

To bed with sundown and up to toil at dawn,
no more pink flamingos on manicured lawns.
The survivors would make or not make a new Dawn of Mankind.

(March 12,2016)