The perfect person
Would drive a normal person
Utterly bonkers.
world war is bonkers
yet humans never can learn
when comes the next one
soz missed the italicising
World War I and II
Defined the nineteen hundreds.
What horrors face us?
May all your horrors
Come from books, plays, and movies –
None from daily life
Movies titillate
Violence, lust pantomimed.
No consequences.
No violence here
All have come to know my peace
I’ve forced it on them
A forced conversion
Rings hollow. Salvation is
Not to be press-ganged.
Why, Press-ganged or not
You all fall under my blows.
Resistance has failed
A hoary cliche:
“Resistance is futile!” Still
Good for a guffaw.
ancient and hoary
like ruins of old cities
forever still, dead
Forever is now.
Forever is the far past.
The future too.
look to the future
for the past is dead and gone
always look forward
Forward and reverse,
Park, idle, neutral – the gears
Of a mobile life.
if you reverse time
and meet yourself in the past
will you survive it?
We survive despite
Heartbreak, reversals of luck
And damn fool goof-ups.
my heart is shattered
who takes sick pleasure in this?
this evil heartbreak
The mirror shattered.
Glass shards flying everywhere.
That’s one ugly guy!
the wicked witch said
‘mirror mirror on the wall’
the answer was bad
A wicked woman
Brings grief to those who trust her.
A wicked man does too.