This poem was inspired by a recent conversation with an apologist for the Cold War doctrine of mutually assured destruction, infamously known as MAD. I am not a fan of so-called “necessary evil”; if evil is necessary, then it is not a choice, and therefore outside of ethics, which is founded on moral agency. MAD is a classic example of sociopathic amoral reasoning, which, of coarse, is immoral. In more practical terms, good ethics is more about giving than taking, so…
What Gives?
Concerning
Mutually assured destruction
He proffered
“You gotta give the devil his doo”
Too witch I replied
I’m knot sure
I’m as familiar
Of the contractual obligations
With the devil
And his parently
Inescapable doo
Of guns too ahead
As might be
Afar right
Necessi-state
Doing what
It takes
Striking me
Surely others
The left
Un-stated
What gives?
