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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…
OK, I guess I’d stopped thinking about them,
for the sake of sanity,
but now I am reminded,
and I revisit the details,
deep into the silo,
and… it’s mind-blowing.
Such might, power, prowess and hubris.
Yet, our buildings are crumbling
and our people are lacking.
… Truly, we are motivated by destruction.
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…
The month flew by
like an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile,
thrust into Space,
an affront to God,
burned up on re-entry.
Time, gone.
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…
They told me he wasn’t as vulgar as LBJ,
or,
as lecherous as JFK.
Indeed.
Nevertheless, in his own way…
…
When I walked into the office the chief was berating the intelligent-looking guy:
“For Christ’s sake, Henry, think big! Let’s get nuclear, goddammit!”
Mortified at the blasphemy, involuntarily I laughed.
Bemused, they looked through me, a woman,
an open door.
©SvetkaSamizdat
…
Slavery,
Exploitation,
Death.
Exposed,
in the hash light
of the dark side of the Moon.
…
My beautiful swan-like neck
is of little effect.
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…
Lies slip from her lips
like water down a mountainside.
Slick rock face.
Summer thunder storm.
Slippery slope
to doom.
…
It was a tumultuous time,
with few moments of comfort.
…
He asked his grandfather to record a TV program: Great Russian Writers, the Anton Chekhov episode.
His grandfather asked if he was a Communist.
He didn’t get it.
…
And the last thing I need to hear
is politicians and wannabes spouting and espousing
the need for progressive policies
and/or conservative values,
both oxymorons.
Change for change’s sake
and retention for the want of a bowel movement.
…
Like, who wouldn’t want to be known as progressive?
It’s a natural aspiration,
of course.
But the word (and world) has been hijacked.
Change does not always equal progress
and a step forward often results in many steps backward.
Study history.
Likewise conservatism,
a security blanket,
but, really, is the world here and now,
people, place, society,
so great that we want to preserve it, as is?
…
Go back into the hole you came out of,
one might say.
In between the devil and the toxic sea.
Turn on, tune in, OD, drop out.
Humans are stupid…
Bears have the good sense to hibernate.
…
The weeks pile upon the days,
the months melt into years.
Time loses meaning.
I don’t want to go forward
and I don’t want to go back.
Meaningless or not, time still passes.
And my every effort seems to become more and more futile
and, ever more hurtful,
resentfulness consumes me.
Discordant and awkward, messed up.
…
Exploitation.
Exploiltation.
Exspoiltation.
We mangle words,
we mangle people,
concepts explored,
money made
at great human expense.
The market is happy
but it makes no sense.
Like meat left to rot,
we spoil
for Dollars and cents.
…
Humanity debased.
Lives destroyed
wills crushed,
possibilities gone,
beautiful things desecrated.
Capitalism:
the world is a poorer place.
…
