Against the war



War notes,

Thoughts that from the front darkened by waxy flashes and congealed blood escape death and recreate old enmities and chains of inhuman figures.
War it is.
A word a bullet.
Not the same.
War it is.
Pacifists oblivious to the curve of time
and irredeemers applauding the purifying fury,
foretaste the joy of the righteous.
There is no justice,
horror becomes acclamation.
There is no logic in the smoke spirals and deaths
of ordinary bistro narrators.
War it is,
because war must be.
Calming the spirits of the righteous
burying scattered consciences of the short century.
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Written on July 05, 2022

Submitted by franco.cilli59 on November 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme aBcdBefgghiaBfgf
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 588
Words 114
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16

Franco Cilli

Franco Cilli (1959) is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He has worked at various ASLs in northern Italy and at the ASL of Pescara. After a 30-year career he is currently retired. He was part of formations of the extra-parliamentary left in his youth until the early 1980s. In the 1970s he was editor of Radio Cicala; in 2000, he collaborated briefly with Radio Città di Pescara, Popolare Network. He is the author of short stories in the fantasy-fantasy genre. In 2001, he participated as a GSF Sanitarian in the Genoa Days. That experience resulted in a book, Obbligo di Referto of which he is co-author, published by Fratelli Frilli Editori in Genoa. He is the author, together with Domenico D'Amico, of the novels Razza Impura (Smasher Editions 2010) and Spinoza Rosso Sangue (Delos Digital Editions 2018). more…

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