exhumed unreadables

by Roberto Lavidez

life is fundamentally

absurd through

the eyes of a

worldly expatriate

led into a thick

morass of vanity

or intimations

of mortality

through a fog

of approximate

translation

omnipresent sun

plays out its

fateful role

emerging from

the desert starving

and dehydrated

exposing a requisite

number of images

suddenly vanish

for no apparent

reason

unreadables

indecently exhumed

filled with the

disgruntled progeny

of defeated peoples

bringing new facts

to an old case that

would have grown

and thrived

in the darkness

turning reason into

a weapon

to decipher the

encrypted messages

embodying the

ineffectual fantastic

wish for justice

and retribution

from a steady

current of moral

concern and

political insight

become slaves

to a vision of

human life

we live in growing

fear that we shall

forget the past

born on a land

without ancestors

and without

memory but

a nightmarish

world of heat

violence and horror

might have been

looking for

a candy store

but finding

dynamite instead

stockpiled

in a match factory

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on the fringes

by Roberto Lavidez

an exotic aura

of mystery

surrounds

nihilists with

aversion to

order

well endowed

with heartless

cruelty

a harbinger

of social implosion

and collapse

addicts of ideology

on the fringes of

derangement

seeing beauty

in instruments

of death

fascinated with

weapon invention

abandoning

the last vestiges

of plausibility

insensitive towards

human suffering

the inevitable life

and death struggle

evading the various

encirclements

searching for

words with more

eloquent sarcasm

to counter any

twinges of conscience

and then they

sing mournful

songs expressing

the bitterness

of their heart

©robertolavidez2013

obliteRated x

by Roberto Lavidez

trial of strength

and clash of wills

the price to pay

is too high

for the meaningless

drama on the stage

of history

infused by

the metaphors

of war

in the overall

repertoire

of humanity

governed by

the trinity

of people

state and army

a political tower

of Babel

reaches triggering

thresholds

everything human

seems suddenly

obliterated

in a scream

like living inside a

vacuum from which

the air is being

pumped out

by empty talk

of anxious souls

between sunup and

sundown

dreamers filled

with naïve

enthusiasms

amidst worldwide

collapse of

ecosystems

nihilists disseminate

the gospel of destruction

with an insatiable desire

for the rawest and most

brutish pleasure

bearing the brunt

of satire and ridicule

endeavoring to break

the linkage with

conventional paradigm

of man’s ignorance

of the possible

©robertolavidez2013