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[ellajam]

Love isn’t useful,
A soul can’t be eroded if it knows love,
People can’t be bought or sold if they know love,
Can’t be bullshitted, or controlled, or fucked through the skull & up the arse,
can’t be bullied, or bribed, or bled, or swallowed up & shat out.
No, love is not useful.
It must be vilified, and laughed at, and spat on, and destroyed!
No, people should not love one another,
and God forbid that they love themselves!

We must put razors in their minds,
Clingfilm over their hearts,
Batteries up their arseholes
And padlocks over their genitals.
We must delude and distract them with cardboard fantasies of two-dimensional icons, born out of a synthetic reality.
We must choke them on plastic food, preserved and fortified with twenty different flavours of piss & shit.
We must convince them that their friends are their enemies, and their enemies are their friends,
Put guns in their hands,
And then..Finally!....They will be useful.

Hi, IZ, this is nicely "In your face". I think you've made a mistake with the "can't"s in S1, I think they would work better as "can"s. It would keep the opening fully sarcastic.

I'm not sure the long lines add anything to the poem, I think there are some interesting breaks that can be found in them.

Good luck with it, thanks for the read.