terror preservation

rumors are buzzing

that the brains at Uppsala Univ., Sweden,

have stumbled upon a way to eliminate

unwanted memories---that

the attempt at getting rid of horrifying

memories is now becoming reality,

as shocks of electricity get thumped into

the heads of human lab rats in question,

so as to stop the hardwired formation of

fears before they solidify in proteins &

this has got anybody who has flipped

through Loriga’s masterpiece,

“Tokyo Doesn’t Love Us Anymore,”

wondering if these scientists had sat

down with the book & used it as a

manual---

for this isn’t how it should be,

after all, we need the preservation of

terror, we need to have memories of

horror in order to remind us of

the balance that is life---

certainly, if one puts their hand on a

burner & fries it, but now they can erase

the memory of doing so, said individual

may very well do it again---for

wouldn’t it be so easy to send soldiers off

to war who wouldn’t remember the

horror?---they’d be perfect human

machines, killers without memory, killers

without guilt &

killers without a need to even try &

compartmentalize what murderous deeds

they have committed with their very hands

in the name of nationalism or

patriotism or whatever f*****g excuse

one can pull off the shelf at any given

time.