DAY 555 09-01-2023

Men die
In Far-off Lands
To Defend the West’s
Imperium.

Mid-century
The Atom split
The world too - Between
Revolution and Stasis.

Decades
When Nothing changed
Except the growth of Militarism
Capitalism and Technology.

A Sundered World
Then put back together
By the Superglue of Globalism
The Neoliberal West Triumphant.

Now, Against the Inevitability
Of its Decay, this dying Empire
Sacrifices the Human Flesh
Of its European Borderlands.

Was Ever Thus:
Steel and Fire
Blood and Guts
For Empire.