A Plastic Another

A Plastic Another

A Poem by Brett Hernan

The sea

will always

fight back.


But, she

can never win.


In this game,

it is of the utmost

importance to delay, take,

and/or impede

one's opponent's pieces.

In order to achieve

the successful outcome

of becoming the winner,

every time.


Laser ink jet printers print

and only create

so many thousands of copies

until a counting microchip

on the circuit board,

as standard practice

simply switches

the entire,

otherwise

thoroughly operationally

functional device,

permanently off.


Planned obsolescence?


Abolition

regulation,

regeneration

of small industry

through production

of a final,

penultimate,

(repairable) model

of each one of everything,

we need and/or require

at an absolute zenith

of design,

that the combined,

'We',

the integrated communal comprehension

of the sum of all of the knowledge

contained within all recorded human intellect,

expressed, as such

through the re-design

of that

which we now find

to be continually

'wearing out' (!)

and being industriously

disposed of,

(it being designated 'cheaper'

to just buy

a plastic

another,

given

the extremely high costs

and extravagances

imposed when involved in

the repair of any of the

mass-produced consumer

items), (those

which make today's homes

so modern, so convenient),

and therefore, being

an example of the fatal

global model of an economic base

thoroughly unsustainable indefinitely

by status quo ritual ceremonials

the exhausting of

a finite world.


“I don’t know whether

it's you

getting stronger

when I ask you

to accept

the act of a task on my behalf?


“Or, if I'm getting stronger

by teaching you

to use your body

under command

at will?”


In place of mine,

something

so far

from

strength.


© 2017 Brett Hernan


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Author

Brett Hernan
Brett Hernan

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia



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Low-resolution sample only. Born 1968. All of the images accompanying each of these written works are my own. (Except that one of the guy putting a flower into a soldier's rifle barrel!) more..

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