Morrock News, an American news and editorial site covering arts, entertainment, and culture, spotlights visual commentary through its Sunday Illustration feature.
Happy M
Give Me Your Young, Your Poor, Your Hungry Masses, Yearning for A HAPPY MEAL.
September 24, 2017 – Morrock News published Happy M, a Sunday Illustration credited to Sillygoose.co.
The work reframes a national welcome into a commercial promise, placing a fast-food mascot above a monument-like pedestal to underline how easily ideals can be repackaged as appetite.
The Piece
About the Work
At the center is a stark contrast: civic symbolism below, branding above. The text functions as the poem and the punchline, keeping the message blunt and memorable:
Give Me Your Young, Your Poor, Your Hungry Masses, Yearning for A HAPPY MEAL.
The Voice
“When a sacred invitation is rewritten as a sales line, the gap between compassion and consumption becomes the story.”
– Sillygoose
The Buzz
Impact and Recognition
Filed under Humor and Lifestyle, the piece reads as pop satire: bright, simple, and deliberately unsettling.
It uses a familiar cadence to expose a familiar mechanism: people reduced to demographics, and dignity reduced to a product.
Publication Notes
Key publication details are outlined below.
Publication Details
Title: Happy M
Publisher: Morrock News
Section: Humor, Lifestyle
Type: Sunday Illustration
Publication Date: September 24, 2017
Byline: Paul Morrock
Artwork Information
Featured Work: Happy M
Studio Credit: Sillygoose.co
Poem: Give Me Your Young, Your Poor, Your Hungry Masses, Yearning for A HAPPY MEAL
In the Headlines
Who sees it. Why it lands.
- Built for culture readers who like commentary delivered through humor and bold visuals
- Uses a well-known cadence to make the critique instantly legible
- Turns “yearning” into a consumer transaction, exposing how quickly empathy can be commodified
Together, the poem and image position Happy M as a compact editorial statement: bright on the surface, sharp underneath.