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
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Author:
Neville (
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Sooner the better.
What is wrong with the Russian people, they can't be that brainwashed.
.. 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 ..
Well we live in hope.
............................ I'm sure there are a lot of us in the same queue .. Cheers DA .. N
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.
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
(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'
............... 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
Here's a one off - Thanks Mek.
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 🙂
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....
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 🙂
Metal jacket or not those fragments tell their own sorry story - --- such a powerful subject and read...........x
I take my helmet off to ya .. thank you Fay .. x
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.
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
I wish that time would come quicker and that the war was stopped.
Make love, not war.
Andy
Nobody in their write mind is gonna argue with that my little golden wonder .. 🙂
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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