what freedom is when it's not at home

pointing out that Black Lives Matter,
or that LGBT-identified relations
naturally enough, exist,
or indeed,
that "minorities",
the broken
or the tokens
or bespoken
silenced women

are valid persons
answerable only
unto
themselves
(not explainable or otherwise
disposable furniture
in someone else's
self-focused landscape,
but one of the "us"
our abdicated media
tacitly manages
to exclusively speak to),

or suggesting
that
threatening
the tattered independence
of our
already suffering cousins
who happen to reside
in less
well-appointed countries
abandons
the pretense
of courageous protection
for the cringing desecration
and shameless contempt
of an astonishingly cruel,
state-mandated
terrorism

all run into the
same presumptive,
privileged assumption.

evidently,
that much vaunted "freedom"
the Demented Beacon's
insecure puritans,
bullying patriots,
pandering politicians,
Hollywood hacks,
and enabling, profit-driven
press of propaganda
are always on about

is the
"freedom"
to take
freedom
away from others.

alas! America,
that stolen "homeland" of democracy's dearth,

where ignorance is maintained,
denial and violence
mainlined,
and delusional projection
is the mainstream religion;

where bipartisan blinders
and myths of good intentions
won't let anyone
actually see

that America, alas!
has abandoned its dreams
and will never let freedom be

from those walls of indifference
and mounting justifications,

to that utterly reflectionless sea

till We the would-be People
discover in ourselves

all the yearning persons
in our "we".

** ***** ** **** * ******* * **** ** ***** **

- Evan Hawthorn, the 30^th of September, 2017

Manifested (invested) Destiny, too

(a subversively conscious plea)

the duopoly's mythinformed,
infotained consumers...
to fool them once
one must fool them twice.
as Facebook amplifies
patriotic projections
those binary blinders
are donned in half a trice.

** ***** ** **** * ******* * **** ** ***** **

- Evan Hawthorn, the 17^th of September, 2017

imagine, if you will

these memes of resistence
are inclined to leave out
those strange "liberal" bedfellows,
the co-enabling co-enfablers
of the soulless amnesiac elephants -
a differently branded faction
of wholly owned subsidiaries;

who also march in lockstep
to the profits of death's drumbeat,
deploying "the law" to snuff out
lives of colour the world over,
but speak well in their
emotionally appealing photo ops,
whilst their actions
are routinely ignored
by the abdicated media

and an entertained
faithful following
of distracted consciences,
who reap the rewards
of a "lesser" billed
complacent complicity

in the privileged,
denial-dented,
destitute box
of manifested destiny's
'exceptionally'
'essential'
duopoly of evil,

thus preventing the untoward,
almost unprecedented predicament
of the Apparency
of Democracy's
falling into
the wrong hands.

- Evan Hawthorn, the 2^nd of September, 2017

observing 'whiteness'

(that fragile conceit)