The Fragmentationalists

A poem from the collection:

"The Spaces We Inhabit" by Colin Read / Reade Collins.

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The fundamental maxim
Of the fragmentationalists
Is embedded in abstractions
Of in extremis axioms
Unfathomable antics
Sequestered in semantics
Self-truths that beg defiance
From the factualness of science

And we are us to us
As they are us to them
And they are them to us
As we are them to them

Once language was important
In attempts to sublimate
Now we self-fulfil all prophesies
With talk of war and hate
The egocentric narcissist
Who only says, “I am”
Whose greed for self surpasses us
Is now the “everyman”

And we are us to us
As they are us to them
And they are them to us
As we are them to them

Rationalised economies
Nationalised theonomies
Political protectionism
Profiteering acquisition
Trickling down as micturition
On the dis-em-manumissioned
Drowned in rising imposition
Of fractious factitious perdition

And we are us to us
As they are us to them
And they are them to us
As we are them to them

And the fragmentationalists declare

This is just
Like war

We must reframe our language –
To gain a clear advantage
Rephrase the lingua franca
To justify our rancour

To speak in words of weapons
Our lexicon – aggression
Pre-emptively to threaten
Malignant Armageddon

The enemy to be opposed
Our enmity to be composed
All threats to be eliminated
All empathy exterminated

And the fragmentationalists declare

This is just,
Like war

And we are us to us
As they are us to them
And they are them to us
As we are them to them