*(* <* *> "the misconstrued photo" <* *> *)* (a disabused muse on another symposium of posings pre-imposed)

maligning direction,

reputed "sides"
riddled

with proportion's
distortion

distract to protract

their
binary bases'

statis

of mined
and
blindered

lies.

for
none of the players

verily pay

for
anyone's "protection"

in the laundering
of projection

attending
conventions;

notwithstanding
the abdicated media's

adamant refusal
to recognise

those jarring
dissonant echoes

in the yawning,
unconscionable gap

between
focus-hocused,
fawning propaganda

and the
inconclusive inconvenience
of
un-complacent fact.

for ever since
the
rebranding

of
incessant
interception's
grand
inception

NATO,

that flag-bedecked

territorial rigging

of tagged
and
wagging intrusion

has always been

an OFFENSIVE organisation.

*

assuredly,

the inured
Lording boards
insuring the hoards
of
SuperPowered
Profiteering

are in their
ringing heaven

and all slides right

in the

slurred
blur
unfurling

as
dictation-taking stakers
for
colonial
fakirs,

bespoken,
betokened,

hollow-
wooded
toy generals

and zombie-eyed,
regime-begleamed,

teeming
scheming
spokesmodels

at sordid, assorted
editorial portals

that enable
enfabled
entitlement

are
inclined
to
advisedly
ween.

*

for
inexpressible reality

lies
reliably,

obsequiously
hidden

in Profit's
bidden midden

of slickly
bickering,

embittering
sheen.

** *** * ***** * ******* * ***** * *** **
- Evan Hawthorn,

that day they stormed the Bastille (hint, hint), 2018