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Class by Jerome Berglund

led
into gold . . conflict
of interest

by Jerome Berglund

It’s fascinating how black swan events and emerging innovations can effect scarcity and perceived value, one thinks of lab grown diamonds disrupting industry and also removing needs for exploitative mining practices. Here’s hoping they continue by making food readily accessible, water drinkable, air safe to breathe!

This poem is also about how divisive inequality is created intentionally, and removal of caste boundaries built on arbitrary material constructs is not desired by the opulent few in the upstairs most comfortable waited on hand and foot. But now thankfully… Robots, ai! Perhaps they can even eliminate brothels and patriarchy, servitude with Siri and company. Until Skynet gets a bee in its bonnet at least! ?

As per ABC News: ‘Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have successfully transformed lead into gold atoms, achieving an ancient alchemist dream through modern physics.

The Large Hadron Collider is a giant particle accelerator that smashes atoms together at super-high speeds. Scientists there have found a way to knock three tiny particles called protons out of lead atoms, turning them into gold atoms.

Instead of crashing lead atoms head-on, the team behind this discovery looked at what happens when the atoms just barely miss each other.’

Further reading:

‘Scientists turn lead into gold for 1st time, but only for a split second’, 2025, Louallen, D., ABC News, available: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/tfEWuW

‘How CERN turned lead into gold (very briefly) in the Large Hadron Collider’, 2025, Petras, G. & Beard, S.J., USA Today, available: https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/05/16/how-cern-collider-turned-lead-into-gold/83651264007/

Author bio:

Jerome Berglund, recently nominated for the Touchstone awards, graduated from USC’s film program, worked in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he has been employed as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Recently relocated to Louisiana, Jerome has exhibited many haiku, senryu and haiga online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, bottle rockets, Cold Moon Journal, Failed Haiku, Frogpond, Mainichi, Presence, and Seashores. You can follow him on Twitter @BerglundJerome and find more of his poetry here: https://flowersunmedia.wixsite.com/jbphotography/post/haiku-senryu-and-haiga-publications

Check out more sciku from Jerome here.

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Exploitation in Micro and Macro by Jerome Berglund

reproduction of
creepy manor in small scale
capital idea

By Jerome Berglund

Just as certain species of ants given ample opportunity will attempt to enslave other species, their victims must remain constantly vigilant to maintain or fight desperately to regain liberty. Social and economic patterns of exploitation and expropriation if not guarded against fiercely and checked through education and equitable distribution of resources can disrupt and endanger vulnerable populations under any conditions, from systems of the most diminutive sizes no less than those largest.

Further reading: 

Slave-making ants (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave-making_ant

Author bio:

Jerome Berglund, recently nominated for the 2022 Touchstone awards, graduated from USC’s film program, worked in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he has been employed as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves.  Jerome has exhibited many haiku, senryu and haiga online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bear Creek Haiku, Bamboo Hut, Cold Moon Journal, Daily Haiga, Failed Haiku, Haiku Dialogue, Scarlet Dragonfly, Under the Basho, and the Zen Space. You can follow him on Twitter @BerglundJerome and find more of his poetry here:  https://flowersunmedia.wixsite.com/jbphotography/post/haiku-senryu-and-haiga-publications

Check out more sciku from Jerome here.

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Vested Interests by Jerome Berglund

corporations decide
who’s sane, and the pharmacies
what medicine we need

By Jerome Berglund

Where vested interests and profit motives exist, there is a direct incentive to treat indefinitely rather than cure.

When those deciding how best to combat symptoms have a direct stake in the sales of pharmaceuticals for example – or those negotiating peace the sale of weapons for warfare similarly – it is a serious concern and given that, the worst sort of perversion of medicine and harming of patients will invariably occur indefinitely.  Just so with a system predicated upon, rewarding of greed, consumption, predation, which will quite reasonably in self-preservation deem heretical and absurd any alternative to the various overt madnesses its adjudicators represent, condone, and perpetuate.    

Further reading: 

Many Authors of Psychiatry Bible have Industry Ties, New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21580-many-authors-of-psychiatry-bible-have-industry-ties/

Author bio:

Jerome Berglund, recently nominated for the 2022 Touchstone awards, graduated from USC’s film program, worked in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he has been employed as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves.  Jerome has exhibited many haiku, senryu and haiga online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bear Creek Haiku, Bamboo Hut, Cold Moon Journal, Daily Haiga, Failed Haiku, Haiku Dialogue, Scarlet Dragonfly, Under the Basho, and the Zen Space. You can follow him on Twitter @BerglundJerome and find more of his poetry here:  https://flowersunmedia.wixsite.com/jbphotography/post/haiku-senryu-and-haiga-publications

Check out more sciku from Jerome here.

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Civil Disobedience by Jerome Berglund

honeyed words profess
or letter wrapped around brick
different windows

By Jerome Berglund

From Minneapolis – where belligerent citizens have nearly achieved meaningful abolition of their existing law enforcement institutions, are presently excitingly experimenting with innovative alternate approaches to policing not rooted in ‘slave patrols’, and utilizing social workers who do not view citizens as enemy combatants rather than goons trained to react violently – one distinctly appreciates the power and potency of responsible, cautious exertion of civil disobedience in achieving critical goals.

Just as salty suffragettes employed outside the box solutions to win their votes, one wonders what sort of inspired disruptions, boycotts and protests will become obliged to convince venal, bought politicians who ‘vote with their wallets’ to finally act in their species’ interest to seriously address the devastating industrial destruction well on its way to making the planet uninhabitable, already having wiped out 70% of existing animal populations in the span of half a century.  

Further reading: Conservative republicans highly skeptical of climate scientists

Author bio:

Jerome Berglund, recently nominated for the 2022 Touchstone awards, graduated from USC’s film program, worked in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he has been employed as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves.  Jerome has exhibited many haiku, senryu and haiga online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bear Creek Haiku, Bamboo Hut, Cold Moon Journal, Daily Haiga, Failed Haiku, Haiku Dialogue, Scarlet Dragonfly, Under the Basho, and the Zen Space. You can follow him on Twitter @BerglundJerome and find more of his poetry here:  https://flowersunmedia.wixsite.com/jbphotography/post/haiku-senryu-and-haiga-publications

Check out more sciku from Jerome here.

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Illusion by Jerome Berglund

double the wages
and then halve their value
trompe-l’œil for posing

By Jerome Berglund

Trompe-l’œil is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. Popular for taking photographs to post on Instagram and other social media, these tricks of the eye and perception are reminiscent to the cosmetic, superficial appearances of progress, change and modest victories in terms of relative earnings, in the West and everywhere.

Our recent practice of hyperinflation following suspiciously closely upon the heels of distinctly minimal incremental graduated gains on wages which have stagnated grotesquely for decades, while productivity increased exponentially, as wealth continues to consolidate into smaller and smaller numbers of hands, the trend toward worse austerity, impossible situations for housing, affordable family creation, healthcare, are only exacerbated, insulted and injured by these distortions passing themselves for supposed reforms, amounting to deceptive sleight of hand magic trickeries.

Further reading: The science behind sales, deals, discounts and promotions

Author bio:

Jerome Berglund, recently nominated for the 2022 Touchstone awards, graduated from USC’s film program, worked in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he has been employed as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves.  Jerome has exhibited many haiku, senryu and haiga online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bear Creek Haiku, Bamboo Hut, Cold Moon Journal, Daily Haiga, Failed Haiku, Haiku Dialogue, Scarlet Dragonfly, Under the Basho, and the Zen Space. You can follow him on Twitter @BerglundJerome and find more of his poetry here:  https://flowersunmedia.wixsite.com/jbphotography/post/haiku-senryu-and-haiga-publications

Check out more sciku from Jerome here.

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Environmental Charlie Browns by Jerome Berglund

children’s ambitious
chalk drawings smudged by elements
December morning

By Jerome Berglund

After Democrats, during campaigning, vocally aligning themselves with Green New Deal initiatives, the imperatives of climate science and crucial regulatory, environmental and energy reforms, Joe Biden’s energy policy has been supportive of fracking, retains $20 billion in annual subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, continues to focus on expansion of nuclear infrastructure that (beyond being potentially catastrophic) are as much as three times as costly as wind or solar alternatives.

Progressive supporters begin to feel increasingly like betrayed Charlie Browns, as one supposedly leftist representative after another double-crosses their constituents, reneges on clear promises and continues supporting the very detrimental agendas and structures they purported their stances on were the meaningful thing which separated them from science-denying or ignoring conservative opponents.

The most perfunctory analysis of who is buttering bread of politicians on both sides of the aisle gives a telling indication of which interests they are representing, and what their terms of office’s legacies in policy will look like.

Further reading: Biden’s climate agenda stalls, and progressives fume

Author bio:

Jerome Berglund, recently nominated for the 2022 Touchstone awards, graduated from USC’s film program, worked in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he has been employed as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves.  Jerome has exhibited many haiku, senryu and haiga online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bear Creek Haiku, Bamboo Hut, Cold Moon Journal, Daily Haiga, Failed Haiku, Haiku Dialogue, Scarlet Dragonfly, Under the Basho, and the Zen Space. You can follow him on Twitter @BerglundJerome and find more of his poetry here:  https://flowersunmedia.wixsite.com/jbphotography/post/haiku-senryu-and-haiga-publications

Check out more sciku from Jerome here.