2016 and 2017. Years in which the world seemed to settle ever deeper
into a spiral of collective craziness and waste. Years of casually
barbaric war, desperate refugees, 'Breaking News' terror attacks,
man-made tragedy, corporate indifference and the grotesque election of a
vengeful, narcissistic, imbecile president by a supposedly intelligent
nation. Dystopia becoming commonplace. These poems are a surgery of the
human condition, an exploration of the helplessness and uneasiness of
being alive in these machine-dependent times of selfishness and
superficiality. Edgy, skeletal poems juxtaposed with poems of clear
lyricism. Poems of universal turmoil and personal loss. An offering of
rhythms and words trying to make themselves understood against a
deafening backdrop of inevitability, foreboding for the future. Or,
possibly, there really is nothing out there to fear, and something good
will always happen.