XVII ee Cummings
Lord buried, Satan dead,
are adored by many and Presto;
thinks evil is evil, is good only
what fancy;
says humble yourself tic, tac, obeys ;
Eternal is only Five-Year Plan: if Joy and Grief
march
arm is there who can be called human?
shadows no dreams crooks cook,
his Henry is Tom, your Tom is Dick;
if caw Tackle kill and grow,
the Cult of Self is the most chic;
new-style instruments, is well worth
Denuevocuño :
if a micro becomes the Jew Coptic
is there who can be called human?
false claim for Truth, Freedom
demand their slaves;
the Rough is holy, the poet is slow, painful tunos
illustrious Progress;
poscritas Soul, Courage sick, what will
Mind if ill the Mood : Koito
if love and hate is a game
is there who can be called human?
Cristo Rey, the world is finished, and we have no
a lifeline:
if only the way waves
Some people can be called human.
Bukowski Ch Dinosaurs
born and in the midst of this
while chalk faces smile as Mrs. Death laughs
as the elevators break as political landscapes
disintegrate while university graduates are working as clerks
spit fish oil wrapped prey is wrapped
oil while the sun is masked we are born and
in the middle of this war
amid mad
prudently amid visions of empty factories with broken windows amid
bars where people no longer speak amid
fights that go from fists to guns and
[knives.
born in this
between hospitals so expensive that it is cheaper to die
between lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper
plead [guilty
in a country where the jails are full and asylums
[
closed in a place where the masses become in affluent
heroes [the inept
born that walking and living through this dying
why mutating
castrated so debased
disinherited so deceived
used so why so screwed
so mad and sick
converted into violent beings turned into inhuman beings so
hearts are blackened fingers seek the throats
gun knife
pump fingers are directed to a god looking fingers numb
pill bottle
parakeet have been born in the midst of this deplorable devastation
were born in the midst of a government 60 years ago
debt that soon there may not return the interest and burn
banks money for nothing
will not be free and unpunished murderers on the streets will
guns and groups of people wandering
land it will be useless food will decrease
nuclear power is in the hands of the majority Incessant explosions
attend
land affected by radiated robot men lurk other
[men
the rich and the chosen observed from space platforms that will
Dante's Inferno look like child's play
not see the sun and always will
night trees will die all vegetation will die
men affected by radiation
eat the flesh of other men affected by radiation
the sea will disappear
polluted lakes and rivers
rain will the gold of the future.
A dark wind brings the stench of rotting bodies
[of men and animals
The few survivors will be shot down by new and hideous
[
diseases and space platforms will be destroyed by wear
supply depletion
the simple effect of general decay
and then emerge that the
most beautiful silence never heard
and the sun still hidden
be waiting for the next chapter.
It will 