Eradication By Proxy
Where would you have stood
had you understood the cost of war?
A list of options pours
onto your screen,
ranging from obscene
to unforgivably horrific.
The monolithic
nature of the issue
is easy to miss, you
wish you
had the time to re-cognize
it, start to finish.
This, however, would diminish
the returns of your
"Me time,"
capital M,
as well as those of your hustle.
The atrophied muscle
of your metaphysical heart
departs the forepart
of your thought
when it ought
to bogart
your attention.
The tension
between what you do
and what you truly
feel is right
must ever be on your mind.
Maligned vulgarity,
this parody
of reason which seems,
to me, to be forever in season,
sees an
opportunity, masquerading
as virtue.
Have I heard you right?
Invading
forces, unprovoked, pervading
the lands of the innocent,
devastating every dissident
with the threat
to destroy the world?
And there is no better
path to peace
than never to cease
firing back
up to and including the release
of the nuclear djinn?
Who wins?
The piles of irradiated ash
all over the world, which
used to be civilian populations
just seconds ago?
Or the people, rich and connected enough
to receive timely invitations
to the furnished bunkers of the ones
who sold the weapons?
About the Creator
Jacob Sherman
The desire to read, and perhaps to write, should be cultivated and nurtured with care throughout every stage of life. For my part I will inject what strangeness and truth that I can into our written history. Expect no constants but honesty.
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A beautiful portrayal of such a final topic - ...the nuclear djinn - love it!