Reality, a computer program to open or close,
options available where to reside,
Virtual Reality,
a place to dream, a place to hide,
Financial Reality,
the only asset,
paper passed back and forth,
again and again, until we die,
grab the mouse and let’s give it a try.

© Douglas Polk

Technology will enable us to live forever says futurist
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Douglas is a poet from Nebraska. He has published three books of poetry; In My Defense, The Defense Rests, and On Appeal.

North Africa like a cord,
or cable made of interwoven wires,
begins to unravel,

with each strand lost,
the stress increases,
as does the tension on the cable,

the first wires to unwind,
old and frayed,
Tunisia and Egypt unwound,
and the cable seemed intact,
the damage only hidden to the naked eye,

now as the strands continue to unravel,
the cable reacts violently to the strain,
soon the region in chaos,
as all that binds the region together,
becomes as unhinged as Gaddafi himself.

© Douglas Polk

Where the Arab spring will end is anyone's guess
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Douglas is a poet from Nebraska. He has published three books of poetry; In My Defense, The Defense Rests, and On Appeal.
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Editor's Note: Douglas equates the turmoil in the Middle East, with the unravelling of a cable. But is it all coming undone at the seams, or will these events ultimately have a unifying effect?

Syrians suffer,
the revolution defied,
Libyans protected,
by the jets in the sky,
the answers unsettling as to the reasons why,
Libyans valued more than Syrians.

© Douglas Polk

Syria: Eyewitness accounts
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Douglas is a poet from Nebraska. He has published three books of poetry; In My Defense, The Defense Rests, and On Appeal.