eric sundin

In offhand complacence
with little forethought
we offer obeisance
as we yield distraught

Got no appetite for fuming
in righteous indignation
just looking busy consuming
hiding in resignation

In successive fits of ‘sloptimism’
we suggest: What’s wrong with escapism?

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‘sloptimism’ = (by license) wishful sloppy ‘thinking’ found in groundless optimism

10/31/25 1020

Frejdig, knapp på flera språk
när seglade på månget hav
Förstås en svunnen epok
nu i duschen går lätt i kvav

Har ej lyckats slå rot
var än världen utsmyckas
Stadigt söker jag bot
men föga troligt lyckas

Trots vet ej om jag saknar mitt fosterland
så tar längtan då å då starkt överhand

edited 05/22/25 0935

Each morning fresh verse
incites my daily pace
For better or worse
each day another race:

A day that blithely sings
not one that mires mopingly
Its welcoming gate swings
fully open copingly

May our days be filled with grace
like flowers brimming their vase

edited 05/05/24 0830

“More ribs cooking on U.S. grills as meat supply increases” 5/28/18 news in our hometown paper. Wow, what a feat!

Quite the welcome feat
Americans love ribs:
More supply of meat
smoking hot, we’ve got dibs!

Short lived cattle anxiously bleat
Soon resting in their burial place
which for them, our supply of meat,
is our insatiable stomach space

Cattle’s plight? Why does that matter?
Just pile more grilled on our platter!

edited 10/14/2026 1505

Exists there stronger fealty
in our late stage capitalism
than speculate on realty
as entitled opportunism?

Lost in stock market goosery
watching transactions careen
Splashing awash in usury
indulging profits obscene

with justifications spurious
while to multitudes injurious

edited 06/22/2026 1635

Situation turns precarious
the Exceptional State rumbles
scary, while sickly hilarious
how its effete Elite fumbles

Exceptionalism losing gloss
down to bare metal, corroding fast
The world sneers relieved at its loss
history shows: Empires never last

The Environment stands slim chance
when us Humans purblindly butt in
Never fades our arrogance
until someone presses The Button

when we’ll hope not to be among the last
still alive after The Mushroom Clouds blast

edited 05/16/25 1100

As Western propaganda
keeps glowering vitriolic
beware its memoranda:
Cast Putin as diabolic!

Rarely hifalutin
like Netanyahu and Trump
the more astute Putin
won’t join on their distraught stump

Tell me, why this mythos
Russia as ‘adversary’?
What’s so amiss with us
that makes this necessary?

Perhaps Russia must be blameworthy
so that The West can look praiseworthy?

edited 11/16/23 1500

As the morning dawns
a next day announcing
We’re ready, poor pawns
for another trouncing

But when I get myself versed
there’s air under my wings
Not ensnared, slogging cursed
among prosaic things

Lightens the day’s burden in trade-off
when starts off with a rhyming take-off

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well versed = here: able to write a fair verse

edited 02/15/22 1640

Mänskors hjärtan kalla
pumpar obevekade
vårt prylbegär svalla
mens ‘Lagom’ förnekade

Är ej vår grunkfullhet
blott knökad tomhet?
Vår självgoda klipskhet
dundrande dumhet?

Vi stack klimatet i lågor
genom slarvig girighet
ställer till skräckfyllda plågor
genom tarvlig tanklöshet

Bland jordelivets fåfänglighet
slår mången en onödig pryl
liksom vår egen anstötlighet
som av hästsparkande rekyl

I vår inkrökta trångsynthet
arvet till barnen: Trolöshet!

edited 01/05/26 1720

Ungdommens fyrverkeri:
när det blixtrade å smällde
välkommen kakofoni
när förtjusade vi drällde

Men blev snart gammalt:
nu ej långt kvar
på Livets anstalt
Fann vi nått svar?

Inget. Världsalltets gåta
låter sej ej inlåta

edited 09/29/24 0740