APOCALYPSE: Some Thoughts about Impending Mass Extinction IMAGE: A mandalic semi-translucent nuclear-ball with some torn textual fragments Frida: No discourse fits for Hiroshima. No explication seems to hold. Ying: (sighing) Poetry is usually frustrating to me. I usually have no idea what most authors whimper about . . . Frida: (speaking louder) No discourse is apt for Nagasaki. No explication can hold. Dmiritri: (ignoring Frida) Who said this is poetry? Frida: (emphatically and with impatience) Do I need to repeat myself? Satoru: (ignoring Frida entirely) Yeah. I think of it as a kaleidoscope. Frida: You're avoiding an unpleasant truth: the human race is at the edge of WWIII. The wheels of destruction are moving, and most people are doing nothing. ===================================================================================== from Peace Pieces: Reflections on Violence and Conflict Resolution by T Newfields SUMMARY: A cleansing mandala and conversation about poetry and nuclear catastrophe KEYWORDS: denial, immanent extinction, mass destruction, poetic criticism Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 2002 in Nagoya, Japan ⩝ Finished: Finished: 2018 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/PeacePoems/eco.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/PeacePoems/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/PeacePoems/indif.htm