Thursday, 5 September 2024

Erosion of thought II

 

Part II


His bony tentacles scraped 

the withered red oleander flowers

of the green synthetic grass. 


In the distance waved a tree

its leaves at him. It was the last true

part of nature in this quarter


where even the neighbouring

twin girls had turned largely factitious.

Screaming their lungs out as


not a single parent had ever

made the effort to stop them from

yelling at the void of a world.


Watering the oleander shrubs

in the earthenware pots from a basin

underneath the plastic blades


of grass, he sensed a vacuity

in this minute preservation of nature.

Had not all become dystopian


as the fighter jet curved over

so low that even the twin's screaming

and his thought were outcried


© 2024-09-03



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