[and now we pause, here in alienation's supinely primed homeland, for a duplicitous message from the proud liberal sponsors of unrepentant nuclear aggression]: >*< "The Strung, Freedom Wrung, Unimpeded March of Chimes" *(an honest history of the lockstep trajectory of the last fifty years)*

you mean to tell me
that all the way back then
they'd already mastered
the reassuring art
of flipping creamed
and finessed
feel good phrases

wrought entirely
from
the specious "helpings"
of
empty narrative

meant to string along
their
starry-eyed,
ubiquitously blanketed,
unminded presumption
numbed,

projected infection
of
protracted redaction's
distracted inaction 

masquing the acute
destitute reality
that democracy's
undermining,
minority stifling,
photo op trifling,
independence siphoning,
absolved revolving half
of
the tinned sin prideful refining,
wince tinting, whiteness minting,
spin dinning, libertied rifling,
war "winning",
brotherhood knifing,
vicious circling status quo

in fact actually,
most assuredly and obtusely,
as an unalterable matter
of parring its course,

resolutely serve
the rote,
colour by number,
runnething asunder
lavishly funded "interests"
of oligarchical masters 

and that,

after all this time,

excepting a fragile hiccup

(from back in the dewy day when
they could still be made afraid of us)

shuddering its fractured opening
breath of freedom's
unconditional love
for our mother's othered children,

shakening the awakening sixties,

startling whole schools of fish
with the unexpected
reflection
of
the pooling of prevailing's
strident abiding
genocidal tides
they'd been swimming in

or,
as the Trilateral Commission
so tellingly put it in the seventies

(once the dust from the nick of time
CIA assassinations had settled
and the "presidential"
precedence
had been safely restored,
allowing an in depth focus
on the mere making of waves),

the "excess of democracy" crisis
in which the "wrong people"
thought they deserved a voice

compellingly silenced
by its promptly profited by
bud nipping recommendations,
thanks to the
monied establishment's
Black Panther stamping,
think tank ramp revamping
Me First regeneration
of the Star Wars and Alzheimer's
warlord trademark
unremarked,
zippity do dahed dippered Gipper,

after all these intervening decades,

(that is to say,
this otherwise unwavering trajectory
of well over half a century)

during which
the focus cloaked, whorily chorused,
offensively knotted, Overton slotted,
lockstep bipartisan march to the right

relentlessly moved us,

rocketing stock
and
querulous barrels,

almost off the dangling edge
of
humanitied earth,

*

turning "Democrats"
into far right Republicans

(indistinguishable
from the pander laced
complacent patrioptics
of law abiding Nazis
in the nineteen thirties)

and "Republicans"
into aluminum sided,
platinum blinded,
Christ eviscerated
baptising ostriches
ducked in dunes
with
pale insecurity's surety
of
merciless radical goons;

*

qualmlessly evolving
the trifecta'ed slurping up
of what were once
public funds
in the no child left
an independent mind
uniformly stormed
privatising of schools,

screening out even
uptight tradition's
next door to atrophied
remote possibility
of kindling and nurturing
responsive
and
questioning
humans to think;

*

at long last resolving
the always creased
and pocketed Congress
into a stasis entrenching
parasitic millionaires' club;

*

rendering the judicial branch
a militant withered shrub
of paranoia flaked,
industriously raked,
psychopathically staked,
"full spectrum dominance"
opaqued state secrecy;

*

harassing and starving
the remaining unflinching
independent nations

(who,
the unanimous animus
of the bullying empire's
ruled "consensus"
birthday suit institute
of dapper wrapped
stenographer clothiers
vehemently assures us
are
bad guys bar Sinister
haters of freedom, all)

despite bipartisan spite's
seamlessly indefatigable
unending molestation,
nonetheless engaged
in fine tuning
the mile in their own moccasins
burden of their own songs;

*

smugly presiding over
the united jingoistic fronted
"State Department"
turned de facto mafioso
compliance enforcers 

openly cohooting with
the IMF and World Bank
to twist the thumbscrews of austerity
on the obedient little minnows
anxious to avert
the disastrous
disfavour
of
the Mother of Bombs

(Mama's little helper "democracies")

that tow,
in escrow,
the profitable line;

*

religiously employing
woodwork crawling
zombie legions
of corporate operatives,
like so many evil monks,
their hatching pens never leaving off
those "free trade" agreements
Clinton and Obama obsessively pressed,

*

resulting in casting out
large numbers of our cousin
corn planters of intrepid subsistence,
nuestras familias Méxicanas,

unable to compete with
the beacon of
marketing subsidised floods,

suffering the little children
of lingering land theft's
bereft unrecognised neighbours
to grapple amidst
the piled refuse
of the world's most hopeless
sprawl of desperate density,

*

simultaneously forcing
precariously ensconced
indigenous farmers
throughout the
Gorgon of Globalisation's
hobbling gobbled South
to give up their grandmothers'
locally resilient seeds

as tax payer guilded megafarms
spread genetic engineering
to the utter ends of dearth

where single expansed crops
so vulnerable to climate change
(or the next biblical plague
of single minded locusts)
require oft as not
bankrupting fertilisation,

belching forth literally
hundreds of thousands
of (scrupulously unreported
in the wealth obsessed,
self possessed
press of the West)
ends unmet
family let down
fertiliser sluiced suicides,

*

and likewise making standard
the obscene right of corporations,

(like, say, Canadian mining outfits)

to sue ostensible states,

(as in rainforested Ecuador)

for exorbitant fortunes

(a brand new form
of the wiles of the West's
intrusive extortion),

successfully alleging
the unconscionable crime
of interfering with expectant profits
by trying to protect their environments,

(a taken to heart
attempted representation
all but unimaginable
here in alienation's
supinely primed homeland)

rendering their citizens
as voiceless over policy
as Americans themselves,

"free trade" thus liberating
independent sovereignty
of any meaning at all,

rather underscoring
the basic lie of nationhood

now that Western based,
piracy traced,
internationally faced corporations
buy and sell countries
like so many ruptured futures,

like powerless macrocosms
of the disregarded masses
they routinely prey upon

whilst patting the Kumbaya backs
of the Euro descent
pride goeth descant
of chosen "essential" people,

rippling with all those
Hollywood stipulated
benevolent intentions

that allow them to critique
other peoples' choices
and forms of government

in need of being
productively realigned
with their "good guy" inclined,
white god goaded,
blithely styed,
righted side of "history";

*

unleashing Pandora's
suicidal juggernaut
of outrageous inequality

(incidentally left out
in the red stained rains
at the stormed Bastille)

by steadily accruing
over several decades
the virtual dismantling
of all functioning oversight,

(long before the monopolied misledia's
Frankenstein flocking the paling kine
wee willy syndrome poster child,
strutting the ratings of distraction
before their velvet curtains,
bringing Christmas every day
to the Mammon gammoned elite,
was even groomed to stomp along)

clogging our tear ducts
with thousands
of untested chemicals,

(their unstudied interactions
predisposing maladies
in pre-bundled
laden blessings yet to come),

snuffing the oceans,
along with our bloodstreams,
with eternally infernal plastics,
sizzling the last living coral reefs,
summoning earthquakes
in frack attacks on the real
homelanded Americans'
remnant earthen berths,
replacing Brazilian rainforest
with soybeans for beef,
antibiotic stuffed,
ozoned miles racking up
flown half way round the world,

strangling every reined bit
of raving air wave caved,
quality of life waived,
veiled public thievery paved,
tailed minority jailed,
health care third railed,
white sale impaled Commons,

leaving ripped up roads,
poisoned water,
and the no longer necessary,
drawn and quartered,
misinformed in two flavours
aimed at rival receptors
ghosted citizen indebted "consumers"
in an uncertain and tremulous
pestilent wake;

*

persistently enabling
the pilgrims' progress
in aid of
intolerance
erasist crusade
of accustomed domination's
blatantly criminal
"regime change" agenda

(under the might privileging,
monopolised right to police,
empathy circumcised,
lorded, awed, and bordered,
competition mestastasised,
mesmerised guise of patriotism);

*

maintaining the tainting
of "exceptional" delusion's
careening equilibrium,
its unveering steering
taken in racist placist turns,

the protection racket's
stacked and bracketing
stockbroken asses
offsetting the vendettings
of lead weighted Republicans,

tilling facebook's
networked fretwork
authority sororitied hymnbook
of slicked specious flicks,
foreshadowing bloodied sands
and honing in drones
in the share if you agree
impairment apogee
of the volunteer stable
of fable enabled clicking cliques'
rigged emotive tugging sticks
for the game of throning stones,

and with their spare money is time
from sounding the silence
of a liberty shredded,
willingly treaded,
spied upon populace,

propping up the never letting up
funding of coups and terrorist gangs
and the violent proning of protests
tormenting the designated
noosed or rebranded
yet to be swallowed lands,

enhancing "stability's" instability
on half a demonised,
chaffed, or fêted calfed,
ours for the terrorising planet;

*

and to those entwining
action packed, high-tech pecked,
manned up, Risk® rearing,
righteous god spearing,
super hero justifying ends,

showering inconceivable trillions
on the rogue military beast

(each budget a broken record
regardless of party in power,
with one of the first feats
of the braying donkeys'
recent newfound majority 
upping Trump's bid
by nearly a hundred billion)

which naturally results
in stripping bare
the social programs
they pretend to be
(but couldn't possibly be) for, 

just like MLK
warned us they were doing
over fifty years ago

and yet,

one is tempted to
incredulously reiterate,

meanest thou to verily
imparteth
unto
me,

despite that overwhelming litany
of insistently overlooked,
totalitarian
evasion distorted,
projection of framings
falsely "reported",
conspiracy blearied
and
treasonous courted,

(Edward and Julian,
Chelsea and Noam's
crucifixions demanded
for the crime of making
unforgivably clear)

unteamed eyes to see

unselfied ears to hear

wholly observable truth,

here in the evidence free
sea of shining me
fear stoking lee
of
the CIA embedded,
super power unindicted,
ultimate doomsday embowered,
afflicting dominance addicted,
extinction fermenting
firmament's
change blocking party
of
the shock doctrine aristocracy's
choiceless shoved hypocrisy
starless midnight blight
attacking Trump from the right
hypnotic joke on democracy

the progressively conformist
faith based followers
clinging to their strings

are still latched on
to their entirely predictable,
context omitted,
presumption tightly knitted,
lesser evil retrofitted
hallucinogenic narrative?

surely you jest.

how depressing
can the predetermined unobservance
of
unattended reality get?

like roller coasters,
cinematic bloodbaths,
and the spilled, spitting thrills
of the alpha abetted misogyny
of propagandic pornography,

ever more horrific
heart stopping come acropping
inconceivably despicable
world destroying boogie men
preempting even a stray
quavering voice
of meaningful change,

forever forbidding
a single vote against
divinely anointed child starvation
and the resistance is futile
mass murder of parents

aren't half as scary
as the systematic void
that consistently creates them. 

Jiminy Cricket, Lucy,

i don't even PLAY f*cking football!

*

- Evan Hawthorn, the doggedly repetitive phased in daze of misbegotten summer,
                              in the supremely ironic year of our hoard directing overlords, 2020