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Diptych of Drones<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 1. Convenience Killing<\/span><\/p>\n Over eight thousand miles away A funeral party had died Pacman and Super Mario Who sit, as they have always sat They sit somewhere in Nevada, 2. New Medal<\/span><\/p>\n They award medals now for remote-controlled The Distinguished Warfare Medal for button-pressed But there are no medals for the burnt funeral parties, Calgacus, referring to the Romans, said they created Diptych of Drones 1. Convenience Killing Over eight thousand miles awayfrom where the devastation wasa zap-happy, kapow-cowboyyeehah’d from his computer screen. A funeral party had diedin the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":12031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
from where the devastation was
a zap-happy, kapow-cowboy
yeehah’d from his computer screen.<\/p>\n
in the same way as the deceased
they were assembled to honour –
zapped at the press of a button.<\/p>\n
and later Sonic, the Hedgehog
may have been the apprenticeships
for today’s Killer Drone cowboys<\/p>\n
when playing games on their consoles,
enamoured by technology
and lost to life’s great mystery.<\/p>\n
yeehahdists killing jihadists,
the new dialectic of rage
that fails to think of consequence.<\/p>\n
killing. This has nothing to do with gaming
consoles and their stages or levels reached.
It is much cruder than that. Much cruder.<\/p>\n
killing, thousands of miles away from the carnage
created by the pressed button, honours ‘the extraordinary
actions that make a true difference in combat operations.’<\/p>\n
none for the burnt children – all are collateral damage.<\/p>\n
a desert and called it peace. Now they seem to create
a high-tech hell and they call it freedom. Freedom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"