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Darko R. Suvin: DIE VERWANDLUNG, 1990S [200 words] affectionately, für elke u. gerd
Dark twisters whirl all around our adrift life Nothing can be taken for granted any more The road signals horrify us like pestilent dragons We are strangers in this land of police corruption
Pleasure comes bottled in plastic bags You talk to me as a polite smiling automaton Filled to the brim with quarters No sense of a her or his story that would be ours
What remains: memories of the sunny climes Unreasonable happiness the future extirpated in lobotomy Thus i've decided to become besotted with precision Measuring letters drop by drop
Deciphering the arms dealers' covered tracks Thru the cowering jungles of UN statistics
Ah, the balcony in Barbados, the sea's azure expanse But balance the starving infants of globalization How the teenage harlots' curse Runs in blood down World Bank walls
We could have waited longer Eaten some more sandwiches & cakes in appreciative silence Brewed herb tea or instant coffee with honey instead of saccharine Sunk into the grass Looking at the louring cloud plates lowering
Until ants came out of our eyes Tenderly agile, uncaring of any birthday
Yet enough is enough. 261000
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