WASHINGTON BURNING: A Future Premonition

	The past is seared in the future,
	& as history screams
	time-waves move bidirectionally . . .

	Once proud monuments now stand as ruins
	& bustling offices have become bramble
	amidst detritus where boardrooms of cockroaches
	& assemblies of mutant rats govern
	desolate streets

	Traveling through this radioactive swampland
	the past looms up eerily
	A city that put Carthage to flame
	became a nuclear grave


Terri: Certainly there are a lot of people who would love to blow Washington D.C. up.

Ted:   Yep. And it's only a matter of time before someone eventually succeeds.

Kris:  I'm less pessimistic. If America can avoid blowing other cities around the
       world up, its capital will likely remain intact.

Tim:   Historically, ever civilization eventually falls. However, often the decay
       comes from the inside – not the outside.


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from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: An imaginary visit to Washington D.C. several centuries after its demise
         and image of a burning U.S. capitol and dialog about the demise of civilizations.
KEYWORDS: Washington D.C., time waves, Washington on fire, bidirectional time waves,
         Washington in flames, Terror in Washington, post-America, American demise

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 2002 in Nagoya, Japan / Finished: 2016 in Shin Taipei, Taiwan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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