"Perfection Of A Kind..."

The Gulag
was not a system;
Auschwitz
was not a camp;
Wounded Knee
was not a battle;
My Lai
was not a village.

They are all
an impulse
never far
from the thoughts
of men,
never truly absent.

The desire
to dominate
lurks in every
human heart.

Peel back
but a few layers
of civilization
(easily done):
the whole world
explodes
into  holocaust.
 - mce