Vladimir’s Full Metal Jacket

Neville

Vladimir’s Full Metal Jacket

 

The one that passed right through him sure

moved fast

and it stung, like a hornet, on amphetamine ..

Although

despite everything, including the difficult to

determine

and presumably calculated trajectory and so

many other

variables, they could never be entirely certain

it had his

name on it, since the mountain of discarded

magazines

and shells strewn all around, each carried the

mark that

linked them with Oсоборонэкспорт, and then

of course

there were the fragments of as yet, unidentified

DNA strewn

around the factories, hospitals and playgrounds ..

and we knew

it was only a matter of time before someone took

the bastard out

 

 

  • Author: Neville (Offline Offline)
  • Published: June 9th, 2022 02:36
  • Category: Unclassified
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  • Users favorite of this poem: L. B. Mek, Doggerel Dave
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  • Paul Bell

    Sooner the better.
    What is wrong with the Russian people, they can't be that brainwashed.

    • Neville



      .. I believe it has everything to do with fear & the severity of reprisal .. but I know what you mean .. thanks for being in my corner Paul ..

    • dusk arising

      Well we live in hope.

      • Neville



        ............................ I'm sure there are a lot of us in the same queue .. Cheers DA .. N

      • orchidee

        We can only hope - even if sounding un-Christian, or un-spiritual.
        I have to admit to rather jumping for joy when a cat-killer in the news snuffed it. Kitty's revenge?! No, not the naughty poet on here. lol.

        • Neville



          I'm not really meant to express such views outside of my padded cell .. but some things, just need to be said, don't the Mr. O

        • L. B. Mek

          (I'm sorry Hyung
          I read your words
          and a month's worth of frustration and despair
          poured out of me
          in one, self-indulgent ramble of ink..
          I hope you know I mean no disrespect
          I'm just overzealous
          with my foolish
          over opinionated, self..
          please, forgive me)
          'the enemy of my Enemy
          is my friend...!'
          before, judging the entire
          Russian population, we must
          remember
          the zealotry efforts of the west
          and especially USA, to induce
          a feud with Russia
          from the minute WW2 ended
          that's
          more than half a century
          of west, policies and sanctions
          and calculated, actions
          aimed at inciting
          volatile reactions..
          'This war or a form of it
          was on the cards the minute
          the US planned to bolster
          Ukraine's defences'..
          (
          https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/14/us-army-iron-dome-weapons-ukraine-511787
          )
          now, does this mean
          Putin is correct in butchering
          his own, blood
          to stave off, USA's intensions
          NO!
          absolutely not!
          and yes, let's not forget
          he is a former
          KGB general
          a prodigy child of their influence
          and proxy, control over Russia..
          but
          Please, let's not just play
          that lazy game
          where we pick
          'our side' and then, scream
          evil, evil on those
          across the lines of our battlefields
          let us look, Beyond
          that reductive and impotent
          'good and evil', labels
          and Seriously, consider
          the cause and effects
          of our reality..
          Because only then
          can we empower our future generations
          with a Chance
          at preventing this same, cyclical
          warmongering
          conflict inducing, conditions
          from, repeating....
          again n again
          and Again!
          Russians are humans
          Putin is Human
          Biden is Human
          We, are All Humans!!!
          fallible and glorious
          Humans
          there is no
          Them vs Us
          there's just, One
          humanity!
          No to War
          and NO
          to those, who
          Plot, conflict
          as Solutions
          to their Political
          obstacles...
          in the words for the great
          Sylvia Plath:
          'Tea leaves, thwart
          those
          who court catastrophe'

          • Neville



            ............... I have no objection whatsoever to anyone speaking their own mind .. Indeed, I agree with much of what you have said .. and so there is absolutely nothing to forgive .. Neville

            • Doggerel Dave

              Here's a one off - Thanks Mek.

              • Neville



                he was rather good now wasn't he you old dog .. and there was me, only quite recently wondering whether the anaesthetic had got to ya .. N 🙂

                • Doggerel Dave

                  Thanks Nev. Nah - nearly but not quite. Horizons pretty narrow right now, as knee and rib . cracking fall days after Op have slowed me down.
                  Add to that a PC on its way out. I do pop in and keep a watch.... You never know where or when , depends on my bloody PC.
                  Take care and keep warm.......... Delete: you are warm , it's me that's cold....

                  • Neville



                    Bugga, I am sorry to hear that .. I hope things start to improve sharpish .. Take care ... and if you really are cold, I've got a space blanket you can borrow, if ya like 🙂

                  • Fay Slimm.

                    Metal jacket or not those fragments tell their own sorry story - --- such a powerful subject and read...........x

                    • Neville



                      I take my helmet off to ya .. thank you Fay .. x

                    • MendedFences27

                      Politics is a dirty game and, as such, does not lend itself to poetry very well. But the human side of this piece, when one considers the loss of life on both sides, proves the arrogance of war. Would Putin's death be a solution to that? Maybe, but what if some other egomaniacal depot-to-be pops up and replaces him.? There are thousands of paths that events going forward could follow. The answer lies in the hands of the Russian people. They may have an opportunity here to gain their freedom once again, but it will be a struggle requiring great sacrifice. It is however, their choice. - Phil A.

                      • Neville



                        politics is indeed a dirty game .. and we in the UK or GB as we were once writefuly known largely agree with you .................. most will have to wait and see the eventual outcome of this madness .. as for me ....................... well I'm gonna try and do my bit ... Neville

                      • Goldfinch60

                        I wish that time would come quicker and that the war was stopped.

                        Make love, not war.

                        Andy

                        • Neville



                          Nobody in their write mind is gonna argue with that my little golden wonder .. 🙂

                        • Doggerel Dave

                          Re:
                          "I am taking some time out to try and help out a little bit in the Ukraine .. not sure how long I will be away, but will be back .. just you mark my words .. stay safe folks N :)"

                          Whatever you do, YOU stay safe, Neville.



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