I have old memories
from when I was a child—
the nineteen-sixties:
wars, corrupt politicians,
civil rights protests, race riots,
governments attacking their own citizens.
I thought
those painful times
were in my past.
History repeats, despite
knowledge that states
history repeats.
Why are we repeating
repeating mistakes
from the past century?
Do we suffer from
from global
cultural dementia?
We call ourselves
homo sapiens
(wise man).
Why don’t we act like it?
© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge day 42/365.
Merger of an old senryu and some random thoughts.
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