Cavalcade Charades
by Anthony Salandy
A deformation of progressive codes
Is lost to obfuscated jargon
And simplified communication
Or rather bastions of banal idolatry,
A soothing odour to deities mistaken
And hidden behind pixelated gates
Cruel, Where vile life dwells
In resplendent betrayal
A sumptuously concocted fallacy
Of bureaucratic effectivity,
A contraceptive to the human spirit
Where dishonourable discharge
Is deposited in accounts many,
Ravished by detritus commentary
In cavalcade procession dystopian,
But generosity is lost
As are bygone tendencies
That upheld genuine human spirit
Led astray by demagogues in plain sight.
About the author:
Anthony Salandy
Anthony is a Black Mixed-race poet & writer who has spent most of his life in Kuwait jostling between the UK & America. Anthony's work has been published 215 times internationally. Anthony has 2 published chapbooks titled 'The Great Northern Journey' 2020 (Lazy Adventurer Publishing) & 'Vultures' 2021 (Roaring Junior Press) as well as a novel 'The Sands of Change' 2021 (Alien Buddha Press). Anthony's Chapbook 'Half Bred' is the Winner of the 2021 'The Poetry Question' Chapbook contest. Anthony is the EIC of Fahmidan Journal & Poetry Editor at Chestnut Review.
More of his work includes Slumber and Demonstrative Demands, which is available soon in Erato, Issue I: Bloom.
Twitter/Instagram: @arsalandy https://arsalandywriter.com/
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Photo: Gray Charades by Erato Magazine via Wombo