Flower Power — I Have Revisited the 60s

Many recognize and acknowledge

The enigma that he is

Knowing he is an enigma

Is not quite the same

As knowing what the enigma is

Some things are not menat to be understood

But merely loved, either from near

Or from afar

Do not try to probe

There is nothing underneath

That is the enigma

How things issue

From that emptiness

Where neither identity resides

Nor any residue of time

Spontaneity itself is charmed

By this enigmatic man

Who is not quite a man

Though walking around

Almost aimlessly

In the woman’s world

But still remaining

That guy in khakhi knickers

And of course sneakers

Which boy Brinda Karat

Addressed so endearingly

And the little comrade not yet 17

Remembers to this day

And that proved to him

Communists are the real deal

Throw in Che into the mix

And his world is complete

The compass has landed in his lap

And now he will not get lost

In our adult world

As he goes around

With his peculiar look

That sees right through to your bones

And can tell what is ailing you

This bloke called Samudrala

Vamshi Krishna, in whose name

Rama does not belong

As those girls he flirts with

Would testify

And I am slowly learning

To flirt with him myself

Though sometimes I get confused

Who is playing whom.

Regarding #Chornobyl / #Chernobyl / #Chornobylj , let me remind a couple of things which people abroad may fail to remember.

The disaster was not an accident. #Commies wanted to drain a few more watts from the Nature (now y'all tend to blame #capitalism for that, ha?) and ordered a crazy experiment requiring the majority of safety systems in the reactor to be shut down. What could go wrong, indeed?

After the catastrophe, the reaction of #USSR authorities was blatantly poor. #Communists tried to conceal the event and its impact (while rumours, obviously, started to circulate), and in particular, refused to cancel the demonstration of #May1st in #Kyiv. And don't fool yourself, it was not a kind of intrinsically protest demonstrations (as if any other ones made any sense in a free country) you can see them now on #1May in free world, it was a state event, act of #communism idolatry (and yes, if you had decided to fail to appear, the authorities would have QUESTIONS). So yes, they literally pushed people under radioactive fallout for the sake of their deadly ideology.

In #Ukraine, there is an opinion that Chornobyl disaster was one of the nails in the coffin of the #soviet nidus. Hard to say, but it remains a toxic scar on beautiful Ukrainian Polissja, which will poison the nature for centuries.