Values '67
Pass by citizen don't look left or right Keep those drip dry eyes straight ahead A tree? Chop it down- it's a danger to lightning! Pansies calling for water, Let 'em die- queer bastards- Seek comfort in the scarlet, labour saving plastic rose Fresh with the fragrance of Daz! Sunday! Pray citizen; Pray no rain will fall On your newly polished Four wheeled God Envoi Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Get it out with Optrex
Values '67 - meaning Summary
Consumerism Replaces Nature
The poem satirizes modern consumerist conformity and the replacement of nature and genuine feeling with manufactured comforts and advertising slogans. It presents a citizen trained to avert attention, destroy a tree as a supposed hazard, prefer plastic imitation over living plants, and treat a polished car as a quasi-religious idol. The closing lines expose irony: supposed beauty and relief are commodified remedies rather than real experience.
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