{"sf1_id":1702497,"sf2_id":"0mvZp0mv","title":"Maybe Stop Telling This Man What He Wants","author":"Rob MacWolf","words":151,"posted_at":"2021-04-03T05:34:00.000Z","tags":["Poetry","Quatrains","lyric"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1702497-maybe-stop-telling-this-man-what-he-wants","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/0mvZp0mv","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/68/24/6824cf2f-e5b3-46de-99f7-694ce762f70f","description":"#16 of poetry\n\nI wrote a lot of angry poetry in 2020, ok?","content":"\"Man wants but little here below\n\nNor wants that little long.\"\n\nHow often hath that platitude\n\nBeen strangled into song?\n\nBy men who do not want, but have\n\nTheir little and their more.\n\nIn rhymes perforce, in meter bad,\n\nThey serve it to the poor.\n\n  \n\n\"Contentment in a humble home,\"\n\nThey preach to homeless men,\n\n\"Is best.\" Then purchase palaces,\n\nAs many as they can.\n\n  \n\n\"Thy simple bread and wine is more,\"\n\nTo those who starving wait,\n\n\"Delightsome than delicacies!\"\n\nAs they refill their plate.\n\n  \n\n\"Humility! Forgiveness!\"\n\nTo the millions they have wronged.\n\nAnd would not even notice if\n\nThe last of us were gone.\n\n  \n\nIf man doth want so little\n\nThen little it should be\n\nFor these mighty and strong to give\n\nOur needs to you and me.\n\nMan wants but little here below.\n\nMy wants are only one:\n\nTake every scrap of doggerel.\n\nForce them to eat each one.\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"poetry","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1702496-eight-minutes-and-forty-six-seconds-on-june-twelfth-two-thousand-twenty.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1702500-obituary-instructions.json"}}