Brainwashing

So we take a momentous leap into the present 

where we meet a brainwashed teenager who’s 

charged with plotting to explode a bomb in the 

street, or public concourse of Martin Place - or 

any densely-peopled spot for that matter - as a 

who-knows-‘blot’ way to 'express' outrage - yet 

deemed religion-motivated & hazy in ideas lots 

of murdered people are the right solution to 

Oh at least he’s not doing it for notoriety; pure 

thoughts of great ‘personal sacrifice’ are ways 

to avoid that obloquy - and yet there’s no face 

to a cause with meaning, except that of inane 

regression to an insane age where the ‘event’ 

catastrophically explains things that matter 

What need concern us is the idea we’re party 

to its genesis, bystander innocence - culpably 

connected to infected greater-malaise - we’re 

in the way where we’re needed as the ‘frame 

of reference’, being the death and destruction 

expressed as causal indices of our demise 

All I can say’s that’s some fey brainwashing! 

© 11 May 2015, I. D. Carswell