Paul J Penton – Songwriter

Superpower- Daily Object Writing – Dec 7th

Russians, the United States, China. Super heroes- kryptonite, flame on – Meetings to limit the amount of M.A.D. [mutually assured destruction] that would take place, the cold war, spy novels by Len Deighton, people being arrested and detained and interogated in small rooms with bare electric bulbs hanging from a roof. Truth serums, truth drugs.

The leaders with their hands on the levers of control, the levers of destruction- how could an ex actor become president- or governor for that matter- anything is possible. It was always a fear through high school- the global warming of its day- the coming crisis in the consciousness of us all- the absolute unparalleled fear- playing out disaster scenarios. The end of the world, getting about from to to town, trying to find enough food enough shelter while sheltering from nuclear winter. The dawn of the world in a nuclear white out. Would I live on beans, tinned sausages ? Beans once in a while is fine, but everyday? The salty tomato orange broth they float in is delightful on toast with melted butter- real butter, not the canola derivative that will make your arteries rot. Haven’t deliberately touched that stuff in years- hydrogenated oil, all those trans-fatty fats. Revulsion at the thought of them, those globules sitting in the blood stream blocking arteries. No chest pains from that- from something else though yet to be identified. I need superpowers to get through the day to day these days. I guess the accumulated wisdom of the years suffices, but just once it would be great to up. up and away…..