{"id":3284,"date":"2019-07-03T09:47:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T14:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2019-07-03T09:47:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T14:47:44","slug":"poem-victor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/03\/poem-victor\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Victor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The war ceased<\/strong>
\nAnd deceased<\/strong>
\nTelling their tales<\/strong>
\nRed the same<\/strong>
\nWith blood mingling<\/strong>
\nAs parents and children<\/strong>
\nAt won’s mercy<\/strong>
\nThe fodder of another<\/strong>
\nBequeathing its soul prize<\/strong>
\nAnd ultimate price<\/strong>
\nas Victor<\/strong>
\nVictor Frankenstein<\/strong>
\nWith monstrous mettle <\/strong>
\nSo easily mistaken for living<\/strong>
\nAs dead<\/strong>
\nAnd littering history<\/strong>
\nSow trying<\/strong>
\nA pieced together humanity<\/strong>
\nOnly Abel too<\/strong>
\nUdder incomprehensibly<\/strong>
\nAs accompany buy<\/strong>
\nThat haunting refrain<\/strong>
\nHell to the victor<\/strong>
\nThat vanquishing breed<\/strong>
\nAnd human raze<\/strong>
\nAnew create or<\/strong>
\nVictor<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Truth<\/a>\"No<\/a>Winning at any cost is the expedient reality of war. That cost is our humanity. As I AM known to say, “Truth is the first casualty of war; most of the rest are civilians.” The monstrous hell that is war cannot be won any more than an earthquake can be won. Disaster capitalism can profit from warmongering, but such a victory can only be earned with a shit lode of lowest common denominations.<\/p>\n

This poem uses the classic image and story of Frankenstein, a tale of confusion over what is life and what is death, an iconic creature that traffics in grunts, a monstrous alien-nation whose soul solace is murderous conspiracy wrapped up in the death of innocents. The will to create is corrupted by the ambition to control life, ultimately killing what it seeks to master. Never the less, in the dance of life and death, giving life is the expansive truth more sow than taking life. When we give, it is ours to give; when we take it is an other’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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