The Hunger Games
Musa Okwonga * Track #5 On iPoems
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Musa notes:
I only just watched The Hunger Games (the first film, not the sequel) this evening, and was blown away. Where do I start? Jennifer Lawrence playing a majestic role as lead? Lenny Kravitz as a revelation? One of the best representations of a dystopia I’ve so far seen in art? Genuinel...
The Hunger Games Annotated
Truth is,
Our youth are already playing Hunger Games:
We’ve lowered them into the pit,
Then pulled the ropes away:
We have made them work for painful hours without payment
And view their plight as casually
As online entertainment.
We promise them a harsh future of infinite constraints
And then we make examples of those who would raise complaints.
We show them that, so they’ll survive,
They must be selfish brutes,
That they must spurn compassion, and all other such untruths.
Our youth are playing Hunger Games already, that’s for sure:
We teach them to greet backs with knives,
Each other’s eyes with claws -
But thankfully,
There are still those young people resolute
To use their kindness to tear our whole world up by its roots.
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The Hunger Games Q&A
When did Musa Okwonga release The Hunger Games?
Musa Okwonga released The Hunger Games on Wed Nov 27 2013.