News and current affairs:
it’s good to be informed, aware,
empowered, they say.
So, I watch, read and listen,
and learn some confusion,
plenty of opinion,
compote of hateful rhetoric.
… I need to tune out! …
Today’s events,
developments and pissing contests.
Tomorrow’s screwed.
This is “The News”.
(To be continued…)
©SvetkaSamizdat
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When *things* seem to lose meaning,
when inversion and perversion become the norm,
when figureheads disgrace themselves,
when one set of money and power fights another,
when the people (the masses, so as to say) are spat-upon pawns…
It’s OK, don’t despair, turn on the TV,
go online, browse Twitter…
There are myriad experts who will tell you what to think,
what to believe, what to know,
self-proclaimed experts who delight in the cacophony of confusion…
No, no, it isn’t true, it’s all delusion:
Elvis, indeed, has left the building.
(To be continued…)
©SvetkaSamizdat
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Resistance is futile,
as is compliance.
Either way,
whatever we do,
we’re screwed.
(Human, all too human)
©SvetkaSamizdat
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If ever she says:
“I’m proud of you.”
It will be tinged
with the sadness of knowing,
for me,
it is not true.
©SvetkaSamizdat
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Yesterday’s miracle,
today’s distant memory.
The beautiful and divine
supplanted by
everyday
shit.
…
I was grateful,
truly
I was,
essentially human, however,
I always want more.
…
A glimmer is never enough,
fallen world,
hopelessness surges,
overwhelms.
©SvetkaSamizdat
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The government taxes you,
to provide
and to protect you…
With and from what? (I ask)
… Sinkholes, potholes,
a trail of breadcrumbs through the forest …
Indeed, the system taxes
and exploits you for itself!
*They* create and perpetuate
shit and spectres,
fear and loathing
the lubricant of their machine.
The authorities are parasitic,
the populace delusional
and busy exploiting their
friends, neighbours
and own subjects.
©SvetkaSamizdat
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Today, they convert you
to their perverted way of thinking,
seducing,
enticing
and delighting certain tendencies.
(Clever, addictive storylines on your TV & computer screen…)
They inhabit and take over,
your soul and being,
leaving no space or desire
for resistance.
(Indeed, I wonder which evil was worse, and how:
then or now…)
©SvetkaSamizdat
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Yesterday, they occupied you physically,
totally,
and made you pay, as they saw it, for the “privilege”.
The Nazis were a diabolical force.
Today, they occupy you mentally,
emotionally,
totally,
and make you pay, as they see it, for the “privilege”.
Nazis live, in government and media,
dictatorship by stealth,
democratic and liberal cloak.
©SvetkaSamizdat
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I’d been reading about a(nother) manifestation of Third Reich evil.
And my American friend told me about the TV series she’d been watching.
Strangely,
sadly,
disturbingly,
it’s difficult for me to assess which is worse,
more decadent, more evil, more *wrong*…
Nazi debauchery, 1943,
or American “entertainment”, 2018?
©SvetkaSamizdat
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Some people seem to like
the constant struggle
of life in this world.
The ceaseless battle
motivates and stimulates,
providing willpower
to get up each morning.
Other people
are repulsed
and sucked dry
by such futility.
They know they’ll never win
in this corrupt system.
For them,
deep thinkers
and bottom feeders,
life is a kind of death.
©SvetkaSamizdat
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