Mutually Assured Destruction.
Perversely, it’s a beautiful thing.
Sorting the elemental from the superfluous.
And I am glad I made a stand,
rejecting the temporal,
even though it meant pillory,
exclusion
and prison.
After all…
what good is your big house,
your refrigerator, your 200cm TV,
your child, or life insurance policy,
when an ICBM hits your city?
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Woe is me,
Woe is you,
Woe is us…
Screeching fuss.
The human condition.
Heal me physician!
(As if!)
…
You seek help.
Placebo today,
Butcher tomorrow.
Vanity of vanities,
Perpetual insanity.
… Humanist?
What hope?
Together, all alone, we die.
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Every thought you think.
Every urge you indulge and/or struggle against.
(… Resist!)
Every order you obey.
Everything you say.
Every word you read and/or hear,
affecting, …
infecting your perspective.
Constant barrage,
constantly compromised.
Trust no one.
Your time will come.
Kompromat.
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Is there any depth to your depravity,
your violation of humanity?
Does it have an end, a meaning, a reason?
Or is it innate, shallow, banal,
everyday, personal treason?
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The Americans asked me: “Why Crimea? Like, what the hell?”
“Well…” I replied, “In addition to everything else, Koktebel!”
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Wave of futility
sweeps over me,
cold breath on my stiff neck.
Half-life, too much, and never enough…
Pain, so much pain…
… creeping death.
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Privet, Pripyat.
…
Tainted Earth,
long before ’86
Adam and Eva fell
(vice versus versa,
we’re in this together).
…
Indeed,
we all fall,
human beings disgrace,
yesterday, today, infinity,
stained,
no hope,
but perchance
pray
miraculous
Grace.
©SvetkaSamizdat
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