what the paranoid psychopath chortled; a treasonous soliloquy leaked by Kassandra (from an unwanted poster in the plushed awkward hush of transparency's crypt)

[a pithy reimagining, fused and remused, of a year old sapling,
concisely precising the meaningless quibble over stubble in
Obama Trumped entwining beholden's trolled "difference."]:

*

"keep us safe"
cried the
mythically weaned,
winningly meaned,

immaculately screened people,

in the ubiquitous
undead stead
of the ramparted glare,

pledging allegiance
to the identity-plied,
privilege personified,

bipolar caparisoned,
uniformly garrisoned,

paranoid psychopath

*

as he murdered
three million
Southeast
Asian
crying babies,
little old ladies,
artists, theorists,
teachers and
pharmacists,
ne'er-do-wells,
swelling belles,
charmless swells,
emaciated farmers,
angst sprung teens,
and brave unstaved
defenders
of independence;

*

as he theorized
in the slipstream
of domination,

twiddling

his

tipping dominoes,

dodging natural

comparisons

with Hitler

(for successfully
normalised,
reality twisted,

presumption encysted,
insistently enlisted

decades

beyond remembering);

*

as he fenced in
and leased
the stolen plots

of

used to be
México del Norte;

*

as his successive

'presidential' precedents

either

thumped brazen chests

or

mourned the "loss" of Cuba

in

disturbingly consistent journals

handing on or mislaying

a Caribbean island

"emerald" bead

in

their upper crust entrusted,

choker brokered,
liberty wrung "necklace";

*

as his pure race embracing

unreal estating agents

astonishingly redistricted

the entirety
of
Latin America

as a Euro-lashed,
conquistador zoned,

big brotherly intoned,

disappeared bone strewn,
holy subsidiary "backyard";

*

as his eternally famished,

never questioned "interests",

having already swallowed
second helpings
on oceans and continents,

still found room

to

"pivot"

to

China

(his main
resented creditor
and inscrutable object
of obsessive fixation,

having managed to pull
a billion souls out of poverty,

and more threatening still

to the dollar's

divine stranglehold

doling out starvation,

nefariously embarked

on linking up
the underrated planks

of a multipolar world);

*

as he snapped at the heels

of fearsome giant slayers,

Sasha and Alexei,

the very day

they

climbed

the

Czar's

beanstalk,

to snatch the barest

exemplary breeze,

lest a serf

anywhere

should accidentally

happen
upon

uncommodifiable freedom;

*

as he went on the lamb
from sheepish justice,

fancying himself
the
'essential global policeman'

(long before
the penned and cushioned
inheritors of whiteness
could be brought
to see what that meant),

proceeding to sanction
his hysterical hallucinations

of

hypothetical fabrications

draped on the unconscionable

nuclear weapons

he's yet to face

charges

for

using

(not just on those two
unforgivable occasions

in that muscling fit
of tough guy bulging,
territory duking
yellow menace rebuking
god blessed hubris,

but every other
clinically psychotic,
utter failure of diplomacy
threatening instance since,

red state blue state,
bunk betrunked
or
practically assed,

over and over
and over
again,

like a Mafioso hit man
that,
regardless of outfit,

only knows
how to do
one
lawless thing);

*

as his revered, slavery depraved,
dearth berthed, gold crushed,
thanksgiving stuffed ancestors

silenced entire language families

in the

unchattelled wilderness

that haunts

his
unrecognised despair;

*

as he divvied and chivvied

the 'underdeveloped'

(yet to be enveloped)

threadbare survivors

along
his

whitewashed

periphery,

'protecting'

the yet to benefit

from global baking,

pre-productive,
pre-inductive,
pre-prosperous 'global south'

from their
capitalist jonesing,
indigenous communing,
nature in tuning,
myriad better selves;

*

as he tore through

the crusade plagued,

Armageddon stained,

siphoned profit planed,

broken cradle

of

civilisation

riddling the Middling East,

thrusting imperfect
fragile congregations
of precariously existing,

careworn human beings

and
other innocent
bystanding
or falling,
flying
or
crawling
living things

into the Western railed,
historically availed,

colonial nailed "consensus"

of consumptive intervention's

white manned,
burdened and behooved,
decimation improved,
free world greased
and dividend grooved,
cavernous open wound
gaping and oozed,

mass induced stone age;

*

as his teamed and seeming,
forted, purported,
distortion escorted

'liberals' and 'conservatives'

(by all their other names)

shouted down

their not so respective
narrative declarative

media consortiums'

complacent abidings
in tribally dialed,

regimentally turnstiled,
context exiled,

emotive stoking
cloakings
and
invokings
of
denial's riled pride;

*

as he arranged countless coups

in that peculiarly American

theocracy shrouded,
progress clouded,

hypocrisy compounded,

counterintuitive 'spreading'

of the less is more shredding

insteading

of

democracy;

*

as he hounded

and

impounded

the would be

shining seeds

in the

sea of seen to

(curbed, tortured,
sticked and stoned)

spurned seers of truth,

stamping out

the slightest

sentient bloom

in
the parched
and withered
might have been
gardens
of
an honestly informed citizenry;

*

as he became the number one
weapon's supplier
on earth's fragile canoe,

offshoring all his other factories,

dashing the winds
of
organised labour
in the crushing fell swoop
of austerity's parody
of parity repair,

a global race
for starvation wages
in manically inflicted
depression addicted,
"free trade" depicted,
winner take all
parasitic roulette,

to focus only
on predatory profit,

pimping every lethal

plaything

of

the devil

from pocket humping

(not just glad to see you) pistols

to the latest experiments

in viral interference's

selective adherence

to dna strands;

from the depleted uranium
that poisoned the future
of Al-Fallujah,
punishing their battered
determined independence

to the next generations
of fiendish inventions

that sizzle skin

and leave no trace

so dependably advertised

by Hollywood's spurting,

flirtful diverting,

crowning

of

thy

good;

routinely endorsed

by an abdicated media,

turned state's witness

a century ago

with the

impress of freedom's
liberally suited,

justification booted

zombie resurrection

born again

as

the establishment's

empirical confirmary

of "left" and "right"

indivisibly clothed

stenographers of record;

reflexively enforced

by a "state" department

long given over

to 'resistance is futile'

bullyings asunder

for

piracy's plunder,

furthering the

prospective

convective disaffecting

of the CIA's hooded,
Saudi monarchical,
slyly apocryphal,
hedged and betting,

rogue and bogus

simmering droves,

those rabid packs

of head chopping,
slickly flicked,
terror fendered,

avidly funded
fundamentalists

and the staged rage
of "free press" enhanced,

covertly financed,
rabble rousing,
viciously bruting,

'freedom' espousing
molotov rebels

aimed wherever
uniformly despised
demonised nations,

still unaligned
and
independent,

have managed to survive,

with the fulsome support

of the foaming upper crust's

decaying dust,

living on gilded memories

of

America's greatest degeneration

in the slippery velvet
whispering lee
of handsomely gloved,

corporate sponsored,

tailored and wedded,
whorily embedded,

steepled
and
rifled
inflicted dictators

in

all their bleached
and brightened,
regime gleamed
gory glory,

fomenting every

imaginable misery

to

fall upon

the poorest

of

the poor.

*

yet,

curiously,

any remotely conscious,
unprepossessed,
bleeder of the free world
unimpressed

Martian on holiday

clapping a few eyes
on the rank trail
of bank cranked misleaders

would likely be able to grasp,

without even straining
the universal integrity
of intelligence divining
rabbit eared antennae,

"keep us safe"

is precisely the thing

paranoid psychopaths

are not designed to do.

'twould go against
the (ambered waves of) grain

(in those
nutritionally hampered,
invasively tampered,
scandalously pampered
big ap bumpered plains.)

and anyway,

we have it

from Saint Obama's

scripted well spoken
mesmerant lips
in
the latest 'liberal' lulling,

given the freely admitted
"overriding purpose"

of

"full spectrum dominance"

safety

has never been

anywhere
near
the intention at all.

for smack in the gist

of all this
bipartisan charted
and
mainstream hosed
imposed projection,

leering through ominous

Orwellian foreshadows

far
ahead of its time,

what is this recurrent fell beast,

lurking in the sexed up trappings,
roped in hopings,
doped change elopings,
and soul to sleep scope creep
of status latticed quid pro quo
dystopian gropings?

sheltered from shepherded view
in the spangle shingled
why look at the past
unindicted war criminal
spattered hymnals
yanking the blinders
on the red and blue folds
of silken seclusion,

shadily aligned behind
the media's Frankenstein,
curtly blurting, obscenely preening,
register ringing golden goose
buzz of distraction Buffoon of Oz,

lost amidst the berserking perks,
opium shuffling shades of trade,
and stately looms of doom
in the smirking and gloating

white men in suits pursuit
of the freeboot looting
Freudian gloaming

'tis Jack the Ripper himself

bewailing
the
brittle chipped fingernails

frantically scratching his face;

forever talking about foreign threats,

paving the John Wayne
memorial pilgrim praised,
dawn's early light
(that lit on multiple
Cheyenne massacres) unphased,

national scolding make my days,
semiquincentennial glazed,
feel good tutorial daze

of the good dead indian
mother of bombs and just deserts
sanctimonious happy endings
golden oldie likeness molded

inherently racist craze

for the high tech blessed,

benevolence tressed,

popcorn digressed,

righted side
of
history caressed,

industrious obliteration

of

vulnerable victims;

glaring suspiciously
from the fanning,
canted slant
of
eight hundred bristling
militant bases

planted in
other peoples'

disrespected spaces;

impelled by manifest destiny's

essential disconnection,

stalwart aversion to reflection,

and the fathomless emptiness

reeking from the welling
of the
knelled reeling selling
of a craven stolen haven's

impenetrable chasm

of

insatiable need,

fed by rival rivulets

of lushly sponsored,
mainstream creamed

creedings of greed,
affixing its agenda
on the redoubtable scaffolds
of age old anxiety's
preexisting
need to be right blight

and stabled enfabling
tolding's posh holdings
of boldly stolen airwaves;

hounding the
fish in a barrel paralyzed steps
of its treason seasoned
patriotic prey
like the consummate pimp
it's always been
since the
nineteen ought
ostrich's to the slaughter
bought their first
versed hearse
of
world war lost,

sinking in

its stainless fabricked,
surreptitiously classed,
brassed propaganda

by the psychologically
gelling magic
of virtue curfewed
unanimosity's
twentyfourseven
evidence free barrage

of
laissez-flaired,

trumpeted and blared,

abject agreed upon

mindlessly repetitive,
plausitive uncausitive,
chirped regurgitation.

and just when
the sudden onset
of a pole to pole
climate controlled
rampant clamped
dissent rent
panicdemic

is so conveniently

covering the tracks

of advancing automation's
robotic belaboured
scabbed droning apped
harsh and precipitate

plunging of millions

into

the abruptly destituted,
no longer necessary
cramped crevices

of
We the wee People's
discontinued redundance

(another anticipated
amassing of disruption

propelling our minders'

nightmare quelling
protest dispelling

everywhere at once

militarisation of police)

comes the pièce de résistance

of errant arrogance's

failure to survive

its blithe suicide

can't miss countdown

to the breathlessly exclusive,
revolution preempting,

must see season finale

of

the super duped,
power afflicted,
let them be staked,
the Commons baked,
though karma tardy
hardly yet flowered,

alpha spooked,
Barbie and Biff
manikin cowered,
broken toy general
armchair bowered,
manna from heaven's

pennies showered

final betrayal of humanity;

a razzle-dazzle

sunset spectacular,

go for the jugular,

collision with
collusion's delusion,

its climaxed lost raiders

parked in a Jurassic

cattle prodded paddleless
earth tremor raptured

shark infesting ark

for a lucre sodden,

blistering tryst

of
twisting fate fisted,
coastline flooded,
aquifer misted,
desert smouldered,
borders disordered,

small cruelties
indulgently engulfed,
microplastic middened,
desperation maddened,
homeless trampled refugees
overrun and hemorrhaged,
endangered species
all gone missing,
uppity primate
giddily pittanced,

fare thee oil well riddanced,
summer splintered
nuclear wintered,

man unkind out of the line,

profit bidden melt down.

*

oh, land of banded insecurity,

home of the sounding rings

encircling freedom,

shooting like a drug

the significance

of nothing,

in
its

awed
fenced

denseness

of
defensed pretense,

thy promise
lies
broken

in one
or
another
unrecognised
neighbour's
yards,

underneath the smoking charnel,
pitiless shards,
and
thousand year radiant shrapnel

of thine eternally coveted

harvestings
of
waste.

shaken thee awake!

hearest not?

o servant of monstrous conformity

in
thy
left, right, and centre
quadrennially paraded,
lauded, pandered and boarded,
lorded, lawed and ordered,
codependent independence drag

'tis of thee,

that sole exceptional
genocide abiding
sea
of
shining thee,

the exasperated,

Alzheimer
plucked,

flattened lady sings.

*

- Evan Hawthorn, the unlooked for ides betiding July, 2020