World War Three
by Jim Hanson / January 30th, 2022
It happened early morning
on the day tanks entered Kiev.
The computers crashed used by
the Russian force, then retaliation:
Ukraine
Russia
United States
the world.
No shots fired, all was quiet and still
in the war of the digital worlds when
viruses deleted algorithms.
All the World Wide Web computers died,
Internet vital functions ceased:
utilities services
money transactions
data and clouds
AI technologies.
It happened thereafter,
worldwide suffering and blame:
first bomb in Kiev
then the world,
done after the day the earth stood still
and World War Three would then begin.
Jim Hanson is a sociologist and retired Senior Researcher at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. His poetry collections include
Endless Journey: Poems in Search of Meaning published in 2022 by Spartan Press,
Perspectives: Educational Poems on the Humanities and Sciences published in 2023 by Wipf and Stock, and
Ruminations: Poems on Living and Dying published in 2023 by Cyberwit Press. A chapbook titled
Anthropic Musings was published in 2019, and single poems have appeared in some thirty websites and printings.
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This article was posted on Sunday, January 30th, 2022 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.
