Terms and Conditions

 Poetry 12

Lines of laborers like soldier pines on the horizon

marching through desolate sands
Exposing humanity's hearsay heresy

"Love at first sight with a man behind barbed wire"

Life is nothing but prisoners and prostitutes

Save face, appearances for appearance's sake

Thirty waiting women in crimson under a Chinese flag

Turn down the pastries made with stolen flour

Heroism served on a platter for war-hounds

Rejecting conjunctions, proposals starting if

Power station traps, tripping profiteers

"You and Sai will die," escaping mutineers

No more trust, no greater love

"Your clumsy humanism kills good men"

"Straddling a fundamental contradiction and trying to justify it"

Torrenting torment straight from the internet

[Inspired by The Human Condition I: No Greater Love]