NOT DRINKING THE CURRENT COOL-AID

NOT DRINKING THE
CURRENT KOOL-AID

was drinking
some Nazi Germany
orange soda drink

fantasizing a la
the high castle science fiction alternate history
Californian imagination
of Mr K Dick

easier to
drink Fanta than
chew on the nose cone
of a V2 revenge
weapon, of doodle bug

physically
      impossible, also
politically incorrect if
not total verboten

which
     nevertheless, does
suggest an interesting point
of entry
from which to
launch into a Gravity’s Rainbow
type World War two
darkly surreal
satirical fantasy

now more than ever
apt for our age

and yet
    as for that war, its
truth (if such a thing)

after so many remakes,
hand-held camera moments
of Normandy carnage,
historical revisits,
re-
interpretations

have any
clear (not constantly
shifting) sensible
appraisal of
what it
      meant (and means).

for
  if yesterday
is different era

must be
ancient history, dawn
of man we
are talking
about here

tickling my palatte
these soda bubbles
         not gas
in a canister
produced to required
specifications by
FARBEN I. G.