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Wild Dogs

 

You tether your thoughts to a leash

and send them out with gnashing teeth

 

They slather through the mystic maze

to tear the flesh from fragile days

 

You feel them pull and twist and jerk

those thoughts released become berserk

 

They bloat and swell beyond inception

too large to shrink at mere rejection

 

You feast and gorge on their return

such well-placed words can make worlds burn

 

They are now beasts beyond command

unbridled from their master’s hand

 

There's no dominion of recall

what comes for one will come for all

 

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David RL Moore

Mon 1st Apr 2024 09:19

Thanks Ray,

The danger with so many things in the assumed command of men is that those things often grow arms and legs of their own.

We now live in the world of AI, some are busy researching how we might restrain intelligence which is devoid of conscience. I think we have moved beyond Asimov's "Three laws of Robotics" The dogs may be off the leash and currently rampant in a confined space, segregated only by what remains of human capacity to understand a beast moving rapidly beyond its control.

Mankind being sentient has built itself walls of protection. We have the Hippocratic Oath of "first do no harm" yet we live in the world which spawned Harold Shipman..and these are things we thought we had control of and regulated.

Who knows where all this ends. Fundamentally things fall apart, entropy has a hold. We're just along for the ride it seems.

David.

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raypool

Sun 31st Mar 2024 14:27

Incredibly explicit and masterful use of description - and particularly appropriate for that backs to the wall antidote for the fragile freedoms we might enjoy.
As an aside, I got a lift from a police van once as my car ignition failed and I had to leave the car - they pushed it out of harms way. As I got in there was a ferocious barking and scratching from behind a panel dividing the seats from the back. One of the guys said don't worry...

Ray

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David RL Moore

Sun 31st Mar 2024 13:20

Thankyou Stephen,

It is also now a tool of State...as well as being a state believed by and used by occasional tools and fools.

Delete your tiktok accounts folks, would be my advice.

David

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Stephen Gospage

Sat 30th Mar 2024 07:53

A disturbing, well-written poem, David. It is very evocative of something that I think we have all experienced.

Thank you for this.

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David RL Moore

Sat 30th Mar 2024 06:31

Thanks to those who sent flowers.

Awaking to check my own dogs this morning I noted they all returned safely with no damage done, as intended.

David.

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David RL Moore

Fri 29th Mar 2024 16:02

Thankyou Reggie.

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Reggie's Ghost

Fri 29th Mar 2024 07:53

Some great lines in this David, and although they say the pen is mightier than the sword I know which one I would rather encounter when walking home from a night out!

I jest... things said have a long lasting effect that can split families and cause wars.

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