Desert Dweller

-thoughts on life, death and gardening.

Owls And Jackals

Only owls and jackals remain
where everything has been destroyed

Led by the bloated,
puffed-up cretinous clown,
horny bonobos,
in the guise of patriotic christians,
ignore good science and fuck (up)
everything they touch—

Industry and extraction
wrestling wealth
from traumatized earth
in the name of progress.

The house is afire!

Cities around the world
are becoming homes for money.
Money, crushing everything,
erasing neighborhoods and cultures.

Neighborhoods, decimated by rolling tides.
Songs, myths, tribal memories,
social mores eradicated.
Cultures subdued by amnesiac greed.

Neighborhoods existing
only as grotesque imitations of themselves,
converted to places where
only owls and jackals remain.

Ghostly neighborhoods
of air-bnbs, homes for money,
where human beings,
hearts withered like grass,
sometimes sleep
like owls among the ruins.

© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge 259/365.

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