They’ve left us
In the lurch,
Sitting on a perch
Lost and unaware
We who were alert,
Once of human trait
Fashioned so to care,
Said analogous of gait
Now beings in despair
On this planet earth,
When man paid a visit
He bled it dry of worth,
Utterly indifferent
Of once fertile play,
A likened spent search
Holds sanity in wait,
While sitting on a perch!
a consequence of indifference
Poetry on a Canapé 
Painful to read, “and bled it dry…” Forlorn says it.
When I wrote this piece yesterday, I was still trying to digest another of our elected present Government of Canada’s, manner of preforming their masterful budget cuts affecting arts and culture, discouraging young artists and brilliant artists and journalists through prematurely ending contributory careers. This while spending $33,000,000. on a military band parade.
Painful to read, and painful to live to say the least, what man does to his fellowman as my poem is meant to express,. I believe our Prime Minister and his band of forward thinking yes men are under the impression that culture is something that is found in yogurt.
As you commented so succinctly, forlorn says it all.
Jean-Jacques Fournier
Yeah, you said it in poem and prose quite on the proverbial money. Pathetic!
On a more cheerful note, a lovely weekend wished to you, Marianne, and your fur-ball gang.
The budgetary attacks on art and culture seem world wide, and then people wonder why the world is such a mess!
There can be little doubt in your assumption, nor can there be doubt as to the wasteful management of our tax dollars causing these budget cuts. The doubt and insult to our intelligence came when our elected representatives put people out of work and discourage creativity the while spending $33,000,000. on a military marching band. Need I say more, than of our present government’s concept of culture, not exceeding what they find in yogourt! JJ
Every budget cut to the arts, is a cut to our humanity. As you said so eloquently – “Need I say more….”
Thank you Rebecca… Every reaction against this kind of government’s thoughtless regard for our creative and talented, speaks loudly about our backward thinking so called servants of the public, and their failure to recognize the harm they do to the future of this country’s growth. Jean-Jacques