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Ten Minutes to Midnight
Larcenists and marauders
Delight amidst flaming metropolises
Nine Minutes to Midnight
The innocuous populus inhales
Bloodguilt like precious air
Eight Minutes to Midnight
Diplomatic Negotiation collapses
Under hypocritical controversy
Seven Minutes to Midnight
Pervasive cries of pleasured pain
A bacchanal saturnalia
Six Minutes to Midnight
Genocidal annihilation
Necessary purification
Five Minutes to Midnight
The search for a panacea
Ends with a pandemic
Four Minutes to Midnight
Fiery earthsplitting cataclysms compliment
Tempestuous and torrential wrath
Three Minutes to Midnight
Human existence reaches breaking point
Mutually assuring destruction all around
Two Minutes to Midnight
A Revisiting of the Cold War with a little
More Heat and Explosions
One Minute to Midnight
The inevitable spiral to our final gateway
Doomsday is coming
As two become one and one becomes zero
A silence descends upon the world.
Bright light fades into nothingness
Till next time, may you agglomerate all your unpremeditated contemplations
6 years ago
3 comments:
Another one of my perfectly random comments coming up,
WHERE IS THE SHORT STORY INSTALLMENT?
Anyway, I suppose parody is the best form of flattery, and this sort of stuff that resembles Plath is pretty good.
~ngiammy
lol Ngiam, this is definitely NOT like Plath.
Nuclear holocaust is an interesting topic. People seem to think that we were on the brink at the Cold War, but it's just as bad nowadays.
I love how the unchanging first line of each stanza gives a feeling of inevitability and futility towards the outcome.
the tension does build as the poem progresses ;P
well...in my opinion at least
nice work eric
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