eric sundin

When your phone seemed lost
prima facie
didn’t you blame, accost
going crazy?

Then found! You were returned
from despair’s deepest canyon
No longer were you spurned
by your Dearest Companion!

How you had yearned to be prompted
back in ‘phonily’ graces
charmingly enticed & wanted
held in torrid embraces!

You may find it condescending
if labeled ’smartphonistic’
though hopefully not offending
but simply sybaritic?

Now you’re back in Reality
in cool nuzzling normality!

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-prima facie = at first appearance
-sybaritic = loving luxury, sensuous pleasure

edited 12/30/23 1150

Our Species’ great distinction
is to precipitate
the Sixth Great Mass Extinction
which just won’t mitigate

It’s been portending
trending since long
Soon it’ll be ending
horridly wrong

Here is what it shall entail
no mere innuendo:
‘going out of business’ sale
in screeching crescendo

Whether found untoward
still Apocalypse
in climatic discord
Then Necropolis

In the final crunch
we’ll be checking plugs, cords
(cluelessly lack hunch)
in vain pounding keyboards

Amidst the climate collapse
all left is to implore
in a last breath bugling taps:
“It used to work before!”

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-Sixth great mass extinction = The planet has gone through five ‘great mass extinctions’ over the past some 440 million years, each of which is thought to have annihilated anywhere from 50 to 95 percent of all species on the planet. We are now well into the sixth. Let’s give ourselves a big hand – us humans have worked hard hastening the sixth!

edited 10/04/23 0950

While open to critique
I’m of course quite unique
You must let me bespeak
with responses oblique

And I do declare
let me ensnare
I do not forswear
being unfair

For my subjectivity
is surely, I declare,
the true objectivity
Beyond that should I care?

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-bespeak = engage in advance; to speak beforehand
-oblique = misleading; indirect

edited 06/20/22 0755

The consistently failing but still not changing U.S. foreign policy: Why don’t they ever learn?!

On the contrary! The Power Elite has learned only too well from their ‘mistakes’ & remain ever so determined to repeat them. These ‘mistakes’ feed their heady hubris and float their depraved delusions while amply providing notoriety, power, profits, careers, ribbons, pensions.

Steeped in inequality & iniquity, the Elite cannot be much bothered about the dire & deadly consequences to other people at home or abroad.

Before the tales of Gibbon
humans swung like gibbons
off to war, way quickly gone
seeking shiny ribbons

Since our Species’ dawn
man pounded chest
with taunt, flexing brawn:
“Who’s the bravest?”

The Elite gets People excited
about foreign machinations
to trust propaganda benighted:
We’re upholding laws of nations!

Though the Elite doesn’t have People’s welfare in mind
it can carry on – as we’re a cowardly kind

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-Gibbon = Edward, author of ‘The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’
-gibbon = a lightweight, tree swinging, quick ape with long powerful arms & loud hooting calls
-ribbons = here: medals or similar decorations, military & civil; promotions

edited 10/24/23 0850

I belånade hus hopklämda
i slö trafik inklämda
Politikerna ostämda
mens så käckt oförskämda

Åt utvattnade skämt
ej färdigskrattat
Känns vår Livslopp utskämt
å färdigkrattad?

Hörs ångerns fotsteg på grusgången?
Av oss låtsaslejon färdigrutet!
Raspig hörs den senaste sången
bortslösat det sista torra krutet

Klimatet ödesbestämt
Framtiden obestämd
Men tack å lov att alltjämt
vår mobil är finstämd!

edited 10/13/2026 1600

Try to dream with flowers
let them be it all
filling the dark small hours
staunch in rustling squall

Silently thunderous
by winds blown lustrous
frugal while generous
flowers grow wondrous

When our life glowers
try dream with flowers

edited 10/1/23 1510

Day dawns in anticipation
morning opens up ‘wide screen’
There’s fleeting exhilaration
as off to work we careen

But soon fades the day in routine
stuck on the corporate track
where indignity and caffeine
afford little joy or slack

If at the day’s end we’re found drained, filled with misgiving
shall we still be counted among the truly living?

edited 02/02/24 0720

U.S. security in peril
from nations antagonistic!
Those foreigners always found feral
their voices propagandistic!

Thus forced by others in cahoots
U.S. must keep up the whack-a-mole
as even when ‘on the ground boots’
unable to exercise control

Expand embargo targets!
Kill collaterally!
The same old Beltway argots
unilaterally:

“All options are on the table
won’t stand for contradiction!”
What pontificating fable
of titillating fiction

Still Elites ought to shiver
as Empire slips, they trip
Out of arrows in quiver
they’re now losing their grip

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-argot = jargon

edited 09/02/2026 1750

Seamless, senseless the aggression
spawned by Exceptionalism
the Imperial obsession
Kissing cousins of Fascism

Limbs blown away & bodies grilled
in ancient cultures debased
Millions (yes, no less!) maimed or killed
millions more fleeing displaced

Many countries devastated
by industrial slaughter
Trillions of dollars plain wasted
while economies totter

Spilled blood, gore & grime
in hell fire doom
done time after time
Brought on by whom?

By Department of ‘Defense’
term deceptively stretched
in obfuscating pretense
offensively far fetched

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Exceptionalism = here: American exceptionalism

edited 05/20/22 0940

Whether buying socks or crockery
it’s about deliberation
Making right choice or face mockery
a taxing preoccupation!

Stuff made in sweatshop
makes for low price perfect!
Heady feel atop
with power to reject!

Total waste to try and humor
any purchase quandary
that’s faces our base consumer
who knows not of boundary

All opportunities acute
for a consumer resolute
Prudence never found too minute
for a consumer who’s astute

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-acute = of critical importance and consequence
-base = having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality

edited 10/06/23 1000