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poetry Waterblasting

Amid “the caked-on lies” of our political leaders and corporate aggressors, New Zealand poet John Sweden offers no remedies, only an imagined hope.

Waterblasting

By John Sweden

Tomorrow we waterblast!

Sloughing off the caked-on lies

calcified layers of betrayals

twisted deceptions, empty promises

etching stubborn stains, accumulated filth

of corporate shittin' on the little guy.

Tomorrow we waterblast!

Foul scum of cunning innuendos

threadbare survival dramas and

warring hominids in the highest

temples of the land.

We'll waterblast your war god

clean of toxic self-infestation,

illusions of importance.

He will stand bare

His hair will point straight up exposing

the grasping power-addicted fool beneath.

The one who makes mouth noises

with twisted intuition, mouth wide open.

Open as the yawning grave that will

strip it from him like water off a

duck's back.

Tomorrow we waterblast!

Born 1943, John Sweden lives in Manukau City, New Zealand, a place of widely populated ethnicities, and is fascinated by human pattern recognition, the rise and fall of hominid alpha dominators and development without growth.

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