No one remembers exactly how it happened We just woke up one day And the world had become one big digital machine There were no surprises or mysteries everything was planned ready for us on a smart screen We were content there was no mystery, no skipping hearbeats We fell in love with ourselves instead, … Continue reading Heart Failure
Every storm is an opportunity for the sea to have its tantrum as it attempts to tackle the monsters of industrial society each wave, a gastric convulsion as partially digested foreign objects are churned out rejected aborted looking for their new place in a world where they never belonged. Those white stones over there Look … Continue reading Spasm
We built our cities on the coast of this giant bowl taking full advantage of the forgiving qualities of water Next to an abyss as deep as our confusion, we did our business Thinking the magic toilet had eatenOur invommitable sins But the whirlpool was reversible The flush took its revenge An exponential excremential soon turned into a hurricanebringing us face to face for … Continue reading Reflux
The cloud started its life small: a tiny grey blemish in the sky, completely unaware of its own malignancy. As it sat lonely at the backside of the mountain, it became used to being fed by humans, just like a butcher’s dog. It never rained, not even moved. Just sat there all alone growing fatter … Continue reading Entropy
One bright morning the sea was eerily quiet a cloud of smell began to color the air as an amphitheater of sunbathing corpses emerged lying on the incline like children put to sleep casualties of another hangover, the only evidence of a night no one remembers No one but the sea, who has tried to … Continue reading Sin
Most times it acts as a mirror reflecting curious eyes from its dark secrets Other times, it becomes transparent Allowing short glimpses into its world, before armies of blue veils rush in to censor the rest. You can only explore it by entering One touch, and it shivers all over It knows you’re here. The … Continue reading Waterborne
(from Pocket Philosophy for End Times - A Lexicon of Dystopia) The complex social, cultural, economic and political structures that emerge once a species begins to effectively parasitize its environment, and the creation of the myths, religions and toxic, self-serving belief systems that temporarily allow this system to sustain itself, evolve and propagate at the … Continue reading Civilisation
Down where the beach shimmers there is an invisible timewarp. As you step into the fluttering starlight you may find yourself 10,000 sunsets back. You’ll see a young version of yourself carving the same footsteps on the same beach as the sea observes you like a watchful parent, unable to hold on to you knowing … Continue reading Spacetime
Spawned into abundance offspring of a wealthy family you were cursed with a cognitive malfunction gorging on your mother’s unlimited milk as she cleaned up after your messes. And then the wind changed Covered in your own filth, you watched the earth burn you saw your cities melt like sandcastles in the rain as you … Continue reading Burn
Down where the ocean draws the line I tried to turn the page lapping at the beach like a wave trying to wipe the slate clean. But the scene is all too familiar walking by the same carcass each day feeling like a worn out canvas used over and over to paint the same blur. … Continue reading Storm
George Tsakraklides 