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the past revisited He was going back to his home in a tiny village from where people congregated living close together and professed to hate it, the absence of war had cost the country dearly, and unemployment was high, like the enforced idleness had made people apathetic there were no cars on the road, petrol was too expensive for people, as was electricity to recharge batteries how the situation was in other countries, no one knew as the fabled internet was forbidden it had it was said a bad influence on the young who believed the rubbish about freedom for the individuals A man with a horse pulling a wagon stopped and gave him a lift to where the road ended, and only used by sheep when he turned to thank the man, he had long gone On his walk on the track to the village, I remembered a video he had seen of a man looking out of a small window to see if the shooting had stopped and was hit, in the head by a bullet Did this person know he was dead, or was he doomed to forever looking out of a small window? Outside his house, his dog sat, reckoned, the dog must be around 135 and didn't pick up smells as good as before; when the dog finally remembered, it was glad to see him, wagging tail but too old to jump up but happy to once again being called Jason the third. A person came out of the kitchen, our man said, this house is mine, you will have to leave, The kitchen man who had introduced himself as Their Kerr looked flummoxed, I have lived here forever and have nowhere else to live; bye the way my name is not, Mister Their, we don't accept biological sex OK, Their, you can live in the basement and take all your little theirs with you. With this the rightful owner took his dog for a walk Returning from his walk, a man with the number nine iron told him the village didn't exist anymore he realized he had trespassed into the future and he had no business being there saddened by this and the loss of the dog, he walked and walked looking for his past

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Date: 12/26/2023 3:30:00 AM
You poem offers a thought-provoking exploration of a journey back to a rural village, capturing a dystopian atmosphere and reflecting on societal changes.. Sad how things change, and a lot of it is to do with colonisation and even sadder that these former powers ignore the plight of the continent now...
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