The Korean War was a proxy war enacted on the Korean Peninsula by neighbouring great powers. Millions of people were butchered over those three brutal years, and the former national territory was utterly destroyed. – Han Kang (trans. Deborah Smith)
The controller of my dreams is not I. To have blocked off from each other these two persons unable even to shake hands is a great crime. – Yi Sang (trans. Walter K. Lew)
i. garglings4gargoyle
puerile writhelings overawed by the sky
puerile roundlings over-awed via some 'poltergeist'
poltergeist'd heists of ex-nations (n./s./38th)
counterintuitive con-job discombobulates the mob to be fobbed
rat-fang clangs da din gong
ii. cluster-pie
fossilized faces of old, anguish untold.
iii. cleanshaven4themaven
cosmos as: a kind of (concentration camp).
(we're on opposing teams.)
i.e., there are instances when, to run away becomes, 'all there really is'
– & it's presupposed so many cried so that We could flitter our russi-fied eyelids (away).
(it's presupposed so many tried, anyway.)
iv. obituary riders
four diminutive skulls on kill-grief-clover.
hibernation's for the hunted.
drones for a funeral
v. cleanshavenviathecraven
hearse fog
we've dialectically miscreant roles to play
nuke'd, bw'd, rapalm'd, bullet'd. for whom.
ghoul-frog saves the dang'd day
perennially speakin' & thinkin' swell of ya'.
whoa sagalicious rat-craw
'twas splat-a-tat-tat' (as opposed to rat).
dialectically reptilian ghouls, to keep at bay.
busybodies play at being busy to play at being kind (come what may).
keen, outta-dah-whirlwind (as the turntable, transmits).