eric sundin

Today’s fiends
downward leaning
gawk on screens
cyber preening

If suggested they be weaned
through an intervention
they’ll act aggrieved & demeaned
in glib circumvention:

“We must be left free to careen
hunched over with noses on screen!”

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fiend = a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm for something; someone addicted to some pernicious habit

edited 01/16/25 1350

While one cheats in golf putting
other flinged racket in tennis
indicative, off-putting
of their deadly menace:

Benito Mussolini
full blown fascist, brazen
‘Donito Trumpolini’
proto-fascist, phase-in

Their egos dysplastic
spur their speeches bombastic

Their jaws jutting
language crude
postures strutting
manners rude

Died in ’45, Benito
while Donald lacking circumspection
not even close to finito
so runs again for reelection

Because both such slickers
brash, ignorant & tacky
they attract boot lickers
minions in millions, wacky

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-dysplastic = growth larger than normal
-golf, tennis = here: Don’s & Ben’s respective favorite sports

edited 10/14/23 1755

Again and again she looks
for what’s urgently ‘essential’
zero objections she brooks
then pours on efforts torrential

These things she’d ‘wanted forever’
and won’t fumble on follow through:
She pursues in all out endeavor
as been her custom hitherto

No hurdle shall stand in her way
allowing herself no rest
against peace of mind she’ll inveigh
until having scored the best

edited 11/21/23 1710

Of pride an overdose
dense, too bellicose?
but would be grandiose
to try diagnose

Trying to philosophize
on the meaning of existence
is a frill that ossifies
best focus on co-existence

Try just belong
let’s not be headstrong
“To Get Along”
ought be our theme song

Listen closer to bird song
until our common swan song

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ossify = to become rigid or inflexible in habits, attitudes, opinions, etc.: a young man who began to ossify right after college.

edited 09/21/23 1710

Svagt mänskors omdöme
jämt i bråk å tjat
vår tvärställda tumme
förstört vårt klimat

Fiffiga i försnillning
uppblåsta i inbillning
konstfulla i korvgrillning
mindre så i urskillning

Vem borde sitta på zoo i buren?
Säkrast vi människor, inte djuren!

edited 08/03/24 0825

When we were youngster or child
woke up from deep sleep delicious
Each morning embraced beguiled
finding every dawn propitious

Now coming to from sleep shallow
hapless dreams repetitious
Images jumbled & sallow
race in flashbacks pernicious

Now since have gotten old
most mornings leave me cold

edited 06/21/25 0710

What pusillanimity
socialist insincerity!
Why fake magnanimity
bother with solidarity?

Don’t you know generosity
went long since out of fashion?
Cheap shot of grandiosity
to indulge in compassion!

Thanks, but rather stay solipsistic
than have to pretend altruistic!

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-pusillanimity = pusillanimous, timidity, cowardliness
-solipsistic = extreme preoccupation with and indulgence of one’s feelings, desires, etc

edited 02/24/24 0930

Is their ignoring contradiction
freedom from friction in fiction
communicative dereliction
or intended malediction?

Not inclined toward clarity
those fumblers of the simplest sentence
While lukewarm on what’s verity
won’t feel disquiet or repentance

Restraint in speech since long faded away
But so what? Aren’t we just texting anyway?

edited 04/01/26 0845

Allt färre tänder
ens ögon grumliga
huttrande händer
vars fingrar fumliga

Hållning oböjlig
i stelnade seder:
Babblar på, löjlig
om ansvar å heder

På en utsliten planet
som kollapsar torr å het

edited 08/23/25 1540

Frisk kvist klar i färg
i lekfullhet
stolt å stark i märg
i livfullhet

Växte på linden
en spänstig kvist
käck, vig i vinden
men utfall trist

Med förtröstan i bröst
såg den fram emot, naiv
långt in i ålderns höst
få ett skönt förgrenat liv

Men orättvisa trägen
i alltför tidigt dags
fann sej kvisten i vägen
av en glupsk trädgårdssax

Klipptes av, kastad på hög
påstods att den inte dög

edited 11/06/23 0840