Not Poetry. Quatrain Verse in English & Swedish. Dagsverser. On the Mundane & the Arcane.
The ‘peace dividend’
since fall of Mastodon
seemed a heaven-send
in 1991
But the Pentagon
please try to cotton on
can’t but carry on
needed to bear down on
Despite it’s vainly bloat
it just won’t concede
a single tank, plane, boat
or other war steed
seemed at time providential
turned out inconsequential
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-cotton on = understand, or begin to understand
-1991 = the collapse of the Soviet Union (here: Mastodon)
Where property claims trump common good
we’ve an unjust society
it ought to be discernible you’d
end up with impropriety
Quality of life has devolved
For in a society
from commonality absolved
brings us deep anxiety
You just take a quick look around:
Distraction, denial abound
Erstwhile kids, now grownups
galloping wildly
standing in own stirrups
Long now since childly
Ought not be arcane
let them be who they are
So give them free rein
and the chance to go far
Do free them, or would you rather
that they turn out like their father?
I västerlandet bortskämda
tillika så lättskrämda
I vårt umgänge ostämda
förstår oss ej utskämda
I dessa helt befängda tider
ej hejd på hur vi försöker maska
å inte minst på hur vi kvider
när det enda som bör överraska:
är hur vi finner oss alltfort
i det som pågår helt förgjort!