Vista-71: Midnight on Tuesday

Vista-71

Friday, November 05, 2004

Midnight on Tuesday

By Nikhilesh Dholakia

Listless putrid streams of bigotry
Meandering
Through jungles of ignorance
Discovering
Placid pools of obscurantism
Masking
Furiously swirling eddies
Of Byzantine beliefs
Merging, creating
Powerful conservative currents

Channels of deceit
Conspiratorially planned
Meticulously concealed
Subtle
Subterranean
Collecting
The menacing currents
Creating
A fervent tributary

Into the raging river
Of greed
Unbridled
Unprincipled
Shimmering
Glimmering golden waves
Of covetous, barricaded, opulent monopolies
Covering sinister undertows
Of exploitative bloodlust
Avarice
Masquerading as imagination
Cowardice
Promenading as determination
Duplicity
Strutting as resolution

Rushing headlong
Plunging precipitously
Into a Niagara
Of imperious descent
Of ominous omnipotence
Of arrogant pretense

Profiting
Enthralling
Lavishing
Showering
With black gold
Conniving opportunists

Bewitching
Berating
Haranguing
Driving
Compelling
Lulling
Pulling

America
Into
An ocean of global oblivion

Kingston, Rhode Island, November 3, 2004

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