Bangkok deconstructed:
fractured concrete buildings, ripped apart as I watch from my Somerset window.
Steel, jutting haphazard in tangled knots; a once perfectly acceptable infrastructure,
now crumbling blocks fall into piles of useless rubble, while machinery scrapes the lot into a perfect square level playing field.
Ready for the next wave of antagonists selling prosperity,
pins & pegs.
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Nips & tucks,
scalpel’s cutting across corners, aligning smooth curves with invisible sutures.
Skin, falling into plastic bags; trophies with twistie ties, all captured by Five Eyes.
Fat globules disperse & intermingle among the blood & yellowing toxic waste,
stretch marks & saggy skin. Torture under white lights (hung, drawn & quartered), like medieval madness.
Discarded pieces of meat/flesh going up in smoke, incinerated into giant plumes.
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Rancid ashes & suffocating dust resuscitating enlightenment
into a new age.
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