(from the upcoming poetry collection Sunsetting: Poems for Failed Civilisations) It was here, by this empty office tower where voices once bounced against the concrete as people talked about their work about their promotions and portfolios while the world around them was silently dying Their voices were too loud for anyone to hear the sifting … Continue reading Canary Wharf
Terrified of being loved for who we are we found refuge behind fluorescent screens trading in our voices to become voyeurs only to be watched, Silently by millions of others. Our hearts became infected with a lust for self-rejection as eavesdropping became the new romance and we discovered a love without a face or a … Continue reading Blackout
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
(from Pocket Philosophy for End Times - A Lexicon of Dystopia) Our economic system has been sustained by the invention of the abstract and physically impossible concept of waste: the irrational notion that any object, resource or even human can suddenly lose its value, sometimes without any actual change in its physical properties, and be … Continue reading Waste
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
George Tsakraklides 