2016, a rumination
by richibi
“Warning Sign“ (2006)
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in an introspective moment, I mused
the days move on, the years, it’s
2016, beyond what I could ever
have imagined, born as I was
before even television nearly,
1949, Israel was being invented,
the Geneva Conventions were
being devised
the future had been predicted with
“2001” in 1968, Kubrick’s visionary
masterpiece, if not quite with “1984“,
Orwell’s 1949 attack on imminent,
impending, totalitarianism
though that work was too close to
have significant impact, we still, by
that eponymous date, weren’t at all
aware of possible pervasive
personal monitoring, of even
entirely innocent transactions,
we were busy deregulating,
privatizing, ceding our patrimony
to unscrupulous speculators, that
which our forebears had even died
for, who once had been serfs and
as indentured
Big Brother since has been
identified, verified, and you, we,
are the perpetually espied
we are seduced by the idea that
our innocence will be our salvation,
though innocence, like beauty,
truth, is in the eye of the, not
necessarily impartial, beholder
and the beholder, the monitoring
eye, cannot be impartial
see God
we have ever been at the mercy
of not necessarily Reason, but
inexorable Fate, though prayer,
I’ve found, has worked miracles
it is the only hope we have
I wish you miracles
Richard
Richard
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