“Worse for Wear” a poem by the Bard of Murdock

It’s Sunday and today’s poem by The Bard of Murdock challenges the nanny government’s insistence on controlling every aspect of our lives. The Bard first published this poem on Saturday, February 2, 2013. Please be sure to read the article linked by the Bard before reading the poem.

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Worse for Wear

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Article link: Soda, candy out under USDA’s proposed school snack rules

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At first it was my cigarettes,

And then it was my drink.

It seemed their plan was common sense.

I guess I didn’t think.

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I didn’t think they had a plan

To rearrange my life,

Said project being underway

With management by wife.

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But now they’ve turned their helpful hands

To what I drink and eat.

They plan to make potato chips

And soda obsolete.

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Granola bars and veggie snacks

And water make the list,

Approved by those in government,

On which I must subsist.

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But living someone else’s life

Does not appeal to me.

To die a little worse for wear

Is part of being free.

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The Bard of Murdock

My goal is to produce poetical cartoons. I try to use metaphors and caricatures (or a politician’s own words) to address complex political and social situations. In this way, I sum up current events in humorous verse.