eric sundin

Got a sweet crush
on robust rush?

The activity junkie
moved by proclivity
ever foraging, spunky
in reactivity

Must keep up the constant clanking
as quiet locomotion
found infinitely more rankling
than noisiest commotion

and stopping to catch one’s breath
would surely be to risk death!

edited 02/15/24 1650

Am writing here yet another verse
of life languished in delusion
In pretense putrid, pallid & terse
persevered in cold collusion

Make no waves, to go & get along
in narrow self absorbed living
Life squandered for a trinket or song
while pretending no misgiving

Earth’s habitat, turned inside out purse
our kid’s lives can only get worse
Planet becomes Humanity’s hearse
they’ll perish in wailing & curse

edited 06/25/26 0650

The day in nature dawns quietly, gently and unhurriedly. The day in the consumer world is impatiently forced open like a screechy metal sliding door on to the storefront that we have allowed society to become:

Screeching cacophony
just noise & rattle
profane, nothing holy
impatient prattle

But then ain’t our span of attention
as short as is long our pretension?

edited 04/29/22 1645

***%) ‘Free will’ is a joke cruel, as humans may lack self-rule

What’s with all that piling schmear
such sad state of affairs?
Are we now suspended here
wonder in whose crosshairs?

In this precarious mess
seems we’re doomed you & I?
We shall furthermore digress
when realizing why:

‘Free will’ amongst cruel jokes
a most dire delusion
victims of the programmed hoax
of earthly confusion!

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schmear = (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together

edited 09/05/24 1620

Life’s narrowing path now turns steeper
our strides shorter on feet colder
Glimpsing the shadow of The Reaper
we turn, in vain, the cold shoulder

Our breath wheezing & shallow
gotten deaf to light sounds
Ages since we were callow
though still may act like clowns

While as our ego-driven selves fade
we’re freed up from the urge to persuade

edited 05/26/24 0710

‘Insight’ bolts out from under a bush
like a hare, catching it too hard!
Unfazed it jumps, twists in frantic rush
baffling the long suffering ‘bard’

Couldn’t write it down, lost in a flash
what if it had been ‘profound’?
Might it beyond fevered dreams rash
have impacted with resound?

But then how likely a deep loss to Humankind
something springing from a mere versifier’s mind?

edited 10/19/22 1105

Catch the mind meander
ambushing, springing
skirting facts & candor
us along-stringing

Mind hatches impudent plots
involve stories oblique
cause & effect tied in knots
unfazed by all critique

Blurry ‘film clips’ squeak crudely
like rusty shears of fear
whirl & creak & clack rudely
through tender feelings tear

While the cold mind races headily
our warm heart keeps beating steadily

edited 07/28/26 0650

Here kids: The planet Earth
long time now since was replete
Circles, rotates in dearth
with you while fully deplete

Wondering if ours were plain theft
draining the planet hollow?
No, no, no need to feel bereft!
Just carry on! Go wallow!

Simply the generational dance
Earth ain’t wholly overheated
Have faith in ‘techno fixes’ perchance
who says you are being cheated?

Kids, keep up the winning same
piling profits by extraction
Self indulgence brings no shame
just tune out, hide in distraction!

edited 04/18/24 1720

Concurring with Henry Giroux that:

” … what emerges is a savage form of casino capitalism along with an
army of walking dead zombies who celebrate a narcissistic
hyper-individualism that radiates a near sociopathic lack of interest in
other people and civic life.”

() Wall Street vs Main Street

While Wall Street ‘prophets’
in system degrading
make windfall profits
on pension fund raiding

We let us be manipulated
to trudge on own ‘Google coned’ day
us zombies get humiliated
as too much piled up in our way

Palpable the diagnosis:
A one-sided symbiosis!

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‘coned’ = course marked by bright cones; in this case: ‘guided’ by ads, reviews, social media pressure etc

edited 10/25/23 1800

Thanks but, they’re mere hinges
Worse though is my mind
bumping on the fringes
To some: too opined

Were it only mind & knees
what a gentle, kindly breeze!

But Life is howlingly intractable
careens oddly, nefariously
Life’s play is but tenuously actable
although sometimes hilariously

edited 02/06/24 1440