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“Execute the brutes!“
Once proclaimed, the masses sow
Fallacies follow
About the Creator
Matthew J. Fromm
Full-time nerd, history enthusiast, and proprietor of arcane knowledge.
Here there be dragons, knights, castles, and quests (plus the occasional dose of absurdity).
I can be reached at [email protected]
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Past Lives
War made for odd couples. To Private Jim Mclellan, Sepp seemed a good man; better at least than some of the monsters he heard stories of deeper into the Reich. Real monsters. This Sepp almost reminded Jim of his uncle; the one from Wisconsin he met a few times at Weddings.
By Matthew J. FrommExclusive • 10 months ago
Day 4 of Quitting
If this is how sobriety feels, maybe it’s better to go through life a little buzzed… this, along with other hits like, I want to kill myself, I wish I was dead, and I’m going to throw myself off a bridge have been the only thoughts on rotation these past few days. I promise myself that if, in a month, I still feel like this (‘this’ meaning despondent, full of rage, and simultaneously numb) I can go back to smoking. Until mid-February though? Nicotine is off the table.
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Comments (9)
Another one that feels like an excerpt from a legend or classic tale!! Congrats on placing fifth on this week's leaderboard Matthew!!
Wooohooooo congratulations on your Leaderboard placement! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Back to say congratulations on placing on Vocal's weekly Leader Board. Well done.
Indeed! Fallacies/‘constructed’ histories. At least I think that was your meaning. Extra slow tonight! 😅
Nicely put together! Told an unfortunate story in 3 lines. But I would have tried to fit 'idiots follow' in there somehow, lol. Nah! It would cheapen the tone. I like it just the way it is... But they are idiots.
Et tu, brutes?
This shows that history repeats itself, and not always for the better. Well done, I really like this one.
What's most striking about this poem is how it applies to the present as well as the past. Nothing good can come from mob mentality, yet that seems to be the tool that many rulers use. Well done on the haiku.
Ouch. This had a real bite to it and such a striking and vivid image to create with so few words. My bud, my man, you have done it again. Mixing history and poetry, so eloquently!