Love Poem: Terrorism Writ Small
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Written by: Gerald Dillenbeck

Terrorism Writ Small

Coldly calculated
deliberately intended
terror-inducing violence,
physical and/or verbal,
is motivated by anger and fear,
but also sometimes, on a larger scale,
by beliefs that vengeance can be,
or at least eventually become,
ecopolitically justified means
toward an egocentrically healthy outcome.

Corollary: Nihilism could help me one day
feel and think and breathe OK.

Anyone who has been excruciatingly yet properly raised by four,
or perhaps even two, teenagers,
each of whom believes it is his or her,
or whatever in-between, duty
to update your more cooperative networking skills,
hopefully will have learned
that both belief in vengeful nastiness
and its nihilistic corollary
are errors in ecopolitically healthy
and correct judgment.