and now, the news

so, on April 2, Russia called an emergency meeting

of the United Nations Security Council

to condemn the international crime

of attacking a sovereign nation's embassy

(murdering 13 human beings,)

but the US, the UK, and France

refused to condemn the (obvious) culprit

and instead blamed

the

(usual demonised) victim

for what they called

"regional escalation,"

warning them not to respond

to their (lavishly supported)

willful genocidal pet's

blatant provocation.

*

that ought to tell "Americans"

everything they need to know

about

just who

the consumptive presumptive

profit indicted

domination addicted

equality conflicted

"SuperPower" bowered

colonial cotillion

of

colluding threats

to

peace on earth actually are.

but, alas,

most of them are still hooked

to the empire crack

called "the news."

and now, let's turn to sports.

*

- Alfonso the Mouse

an Obscure quote

what does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not?  all the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care.  that excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.

- Thomas Hardy

(in "Jude the Obscure")

the day after the posse parked

another speaking portrait, oh fisher of consciousness, thee!

and yet, alas, i cannot pin it up (as has been my curious wont for ever so long) at least on that (state plated plaque checked compartmentally caged) facebook page. for i've been summarily ejected therefrom, for going and sharing a wordless cartoon

(in which a US-flag collared hand pushes a traditionally uniformed Ukrainian soldier into a consuming inferno.)

* it's ever so ironic, but i suppose quite telling, that after all the raging honesty smithed by my musing pen, and all the verboten articles by (too helpfully informative) persona non grata Alfonso the mouse has managed to cleverly slip in, the (we define the) "community" normalised groping dissention roping conscience eloped robotic zombie thought police for the wagon circling collective west ("us" against the unpeopled rest) finally aimed those memory hole paved, narrative staving, validation craving, reflection concaved, common humanity waived, domination entempled, ("authoritarianism" dissembled,) connection unsampled, creativity brambled, disrespect for others entrenched, (no unreined eyes in this teaming bench,) the wrench of incompetent failure stenched, "liberal" and "conservative" carafed, democracy stuffed, independence bluffed, rebuffed "others" cooperation snuffed

conformity ratcheting silencers on this borderless hearted muse possessed wily elf himself for having

transgressed

a simple eloquent image. * * sigh *

* - Evan Hawthorn, (the day after the posse parked)

[the visual aid ensconced at the top, (Mister Fish,"Rest in Peace or Else") is his newest painting; the setting, if you will, on which transpired this very latest muse inspired truth unbriared responsive poem.]

homecoming

Alfonso and i are ened to note the homecoming of citizen informant Daniel Hale

("treasonous" "enemy" of domination's state) whose crimes include pointing out that,

for example, during a five-month period of "Operation Haymaker" (an acutely

contemptuous entitling within the brutal unprovoked invasion of Afghanistan)

nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were NOT the intended targets.

welcome home, brave Daniel,

(champion of illumining compassion);

thank you for so courageously
placing your bit of our
universal soul

directly in the
line of ire's

honesty punishing fire

in order to selflessly
(soulfully) tap into

the mockery of democracy's
relentless
and
resolute

mislaying of humanity.

freedom of choice amidst the hands of oppressors

for even as he took those
irretrievable steps,
Aaron went and said,

'i’m about to engage
in an extreme act of protest,
but compared to what people
have been experiencing in Palestine
at the hands of their colonizers,

it’s not extreme at all.'

*

and of course he was right,
here in the colonial collective west's
moribund reflectionless extremity,

it's not so extreme after all.

not when compared with,
say,

having one's cells blown apart,

suffocating under collapsed buildings,

undergoing surgeries and amputations without anesthesia,

starving to death,

watching loved ones die at the hands of pitiless colonizers,

all normalized now
by
a fabulous wealth hoarding
domination lording

memory hole fueled
socially tooled
staged dueling
cruelty grueling

conformity saddled
piracy addled
intelligence embattled

election immune ruling class.

*

rest in peace,
brave
and
fully conscious Aaron,

forever in my
tattered heart's

open ended lease.

be still my tattered heart...

what's that, Alfonso?
you've gleaned a song from Sting?

our written history is a catalogue of crime;
the sordid and the powerful, the architects of "mine;"

the cult of domination, oppression of the mild;

independence made illegal
on auld lang syne's stolen dime;

the psychopaths' fear of letting "others" fight back

(the "protection" racket's docket)
always plugged in freedom's socket,
stocked in the rockets

democracy's mockery
spilling from it's pockets...

might "siding" right(s)

conforming their porn
and
circling the wagons...

a nurtured loss of memory;
rogue aggression as its child.

be still my brittle heart
'twould be better to let it cool;

it's too fragile to be so open, and yet
misery spurned is hard to forget...


it can't be healthy, this horrid pace
blood running red
from that single human race;

slip from the sill
my shattering heart,
we must learn to stand our common ground...

(when honesty died in Julian's cell,
did it make a sound?)


though i've been to every sage i know
can't water the drought that plagues us so...


i sink like a stone that's been thrown in an ocean
where connections are drowned
along with shared emotion;


don't stop until theirs'
finally start...

keep up that beat, my spattering heart

disorder of the day

and as Alfonso and i add

another blanket to our sleep chair,

there they are,

having lost their belongings

as they fled falling shrapnel

collapsing cherished roofs

to the very edge

of

their abducted open air prison,

occupied by "freedom & democracy"

(for us but not for you™);

shivering in wind wrapped tents,

listening for the revving

of approaching death,

looming in the "rules based" hoarders'

ordering of sky.