avatarKallol Mazumdar

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The web content is a poignant and evocative poem that reflects on the harsh realities of life, the suffering of children, and the societal constructs that perpetuate inequality and hypocrisy.

Abstract

The poem "I Took my Begging Bowl and Slammed it" is a profound narrative that delves into themes of despair, societal decay, and the loss of innocence. It paints a vivid picture of a world where children are victims of neglect and abuse, their skeletal remains a testament to the failure of society to protect them. The earth is depicted as a place of turmoil and upheaval, where the only constant is change and often not for the better. The poem criticizes the hypocrisy within the 'Manosphere,' where masculine virtues are preached but not practiced, and the vulnerable, especially children, suffer at the hands of those who claim to be protectors. It highlights the commodification of innocence and the exploitation of the less privileged, suggesting that the powerful maintain their status by oppressing the weak. The narrative suggests a cycle of abuse and exploitation, where the alpha male archetype is exposed as a facade for misogyny and chauvinism, and the true cost is the lives and well-being of innocent children.

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  • The author conveys a strong critique of societal norms that fail to protect the vulnerable, particularly children.
  • There is a clear condemnation of the hypocrisy within certain masculine circles, where the rhetoric does not match the actions, especially regarding the treatment of the weak and innocent.
  • The poem suggests that the powerful exploit the less fortunate to maintain their privilege, often under the guise of societal roles and expectations.
  • The author seems to argue that the concept of the 'alpha male' is inherently flawed and perpetuates a cycle of abuse and inequality.
  • The narrative implies that the true victims of societal failures are the children, who are robbed of their childhood and innocence.
  • The poem reflects on the environmental and societal degradation, indicating that these issues are interconnected and contribute to a sense of hopelessness and disillusionment.
  • The author expresses a sense of urgency for change and a need to confront the uncomfortable truths about society's treatment of its most vulnerable members.

I Took my Begging Bowl and Slammed it

Dreams are dying, the earth is shaking, and everything dismantling in and out for the little one is dying

Credits: St Janko Ferlic, Pixabay

Isn’t earth the only place to live? Where will we go?

The only haze of shades, blurry lines, crossing each other as a man carrying a sack approaches a skeletal body,

Body, brainless body, usurped body, it could not defend itself as the gaze never fell pity for the skeletal remains of a child.

On the banks of the river lay the misconducts of social penetration, beings with body contraptions,

Diseases move the skin in and out, heart freezes inside the bone trap.

As the noises come beaming in the river shores, never to return, other skeletal remains undergoing the same perpetration,

Annihilation, destruction, demonization, deinstitutionalization, deconstructing the body to suits and ties, for who cares about a naked infant,

They are left hung to dry till the organs crawl out and feed moisture off of the sand.

Demons exist as they can turn stone into water, crushing it in and out,

Digging its holes, porous surfaces, and crazy edifices; the water seemed like a gushing bewildering waterfall, as it floats, gloats, and comes,

For it was not a gift, it was a momentary uplift, to seize the throne and make themselves the bigger man,

For man can be big and small, of many kinds they can exist and can’t.

While the big ones with privilege are open to splitting a living being into two,

Yet the sirens won’t bug your neighbors, you can wait till the time lapsed.

For tables turn and minds churn, every being is distant from reality, hope, and assurance;

A man of any form, hierarchy, or duplicity extension chooses to envision an encapsulated mind, diving, and dwelling in utopia.

Yet he says and tells everyone he was the skeletal body, robbed of his childhood, innocence everything.

Everyone can see, be anyone in childhood, but the real ones are fending off for themselves. Fighting the odds to live day in and out.

Credits: Dmitry I, Unsplash

Hypocrisy in the Manosphere

Masculine Godly verses, like the word of God, fight for weak men, injustices, children, and women.

Yet a man fails to submit that he often torments the infant, be it a girl or a boy.

For he can tell you how to be treating their children, in smudge-free clothes, ironed and without creche, go to the bottom well-aligned wardrobe.

Rob and hop off of the childhood innocence packing it in through the deep dungeons of mines and demonic shrines, where the infant slaves get poisoned by the dust of Lithium, one that powers blood batteries, stories, and ferries, do not entail switch and swap, to let the duplicity kill the curious air.

As fire smelts to make it embolden, the pigeon responsible for spreading the message splitter that into pieces, breaking and eating like her favorite grains.

While the skeletal body, an innocent boy could not fathom thinking that the alpha male is a subtext for misogyny.

Deeper and deeper it weaves into chauvinism, not patriarchy, for that’s too light to describe this sort of permanence in being an imbecile.

Call the protector yet robbing lives, ways of living, and taking off of infant lives of people from a different part of the world.

As the suits and ties twirl and fancy the infant sitting, watching with an eye, as the other was sold to build conviction of begging, by a different alpha male.

From the kidnapper that accumulates skeletal bodies and loses organs to weave people’s emotions to high intensity.

To make bones and a body with no organs, through beggars he eats and takes care of living through the alms of the infant.

While the infant stands upright on the river banks, watches the voice curl and crawl.

It decides to dive into the river, purposefully expanding till the bones can have moisture, and so does the alpha male,

So is the alpha male who requires weight for its rootless existence.

Credits: Jyotirmoi Gupta, Unsplash

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