Evils of Absolutionism

Evil, how they talk about it now,
is fake. And it kills real people,
Like fake orange juice can, if

It's fake enough. Let's get back to real
Evil, which also kills people, but

At least you didn't have
The competing chorus of moral
Idiots and intellectual cowards explaining

It away with reference to nonexistent things,
Or the lack thereof.

Back when they knew what evil was. They were
Dispassionate about the matter-of-fact

examples:

The avalanche
or tsunami that crushes
and suffocates. The turn
of cards or markets or heels
that wipes out your fortune
or seals your fate. The blow
from above behind cracking skull
and back, whether dealt by
hand, club, act of
God (or gods, or God's duly- or
unduly-appointed representative), or
falling eucalyptus branch. Enough

Examples. These all and many
More are evils.

Evil is what befalls us. Some greater,
Some lesser: all are evils. And,

Unless you happen to live in moral
Idiocy or intellectual cowardice

(Both evils, by the way - devil
Take the lesser),

Are evil.

Evil is and evils are preventable and inevitable;
deliberate and careless; natural and artificial;
amoral, immoral, or moral; justified, rationalized,
impenitent or unnoticed; utterly random or cunningly
wrought.

Evil is and evils are very easy to see, recognize, class
and define. Evil is a useful, productive concept, and evils

Are senseless, destructive things. And

They do not lead on to good and better things.
Good and better things lead on from them.

Away from them, cursing and aggrieved, always
Away from them. Not from them. Past and through
Them and on, towards more to come, but hoping for

The preventable kind. With eyes
A bit wiser, to recognize.

Evil people

Do exist. They account for only
The smallest, or one of the smallest
Portions of the world's evils:

Deliberate, and see if you find
You think these people, or
These evils if you prefer, are

preventable.