Bad Signs
An Ekphrastic Sonnet
By D. J. ReddallPublished 16 days ago • Updated 16 days ago • 1 min read
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Amoral, avaricious nihilists
Savants when they're looking for weaknesses
To exploit, in everything that exists
Laws, institutions, gods and waitresses
Power as an end and not a mere means
Shrinking life into competitive sport
Trumpeting their counterfeit, elite genes
Quite happy to the rest of us deport
Humans prone to dehumanizing
The poor, the weak, the baffling, dark other
The sons you cannot prevent from rising
The daughters of an outraged, sad mother
Unhorse these engineers of destruction
Leaders often need moral instruction
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D. J. Reddall
I write because my time is limited and my imagination is not.
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