Civil/Not Civil
1//Signal
Everyday talk
becomes prophecy.
Coworkers smile
badass war.
They do not see
the abyss opening
in casual phrases.
2//Table
Modern war means:
no table left standing.
Every device
weaponized.
Every channel
infected.
Nothing means anything
when meaning itself
is fire.
3//Division
First fracture never healed.
Second fracture
unending cascade.
Lines within lines,
neighbors dissolved,
ideologies fed
to the algorithm.
4//Echo
Cool, they say.
But I hear only
the collapse of symbols,
the silence of bridges,
the dust of nations
burnt twice over.
5//Aftermath
There is no after.
Only division rehearsed,
division repeated,
division without end.