another (unspoken broken) day

another day, another blown up school~terrorised refuge,

another clinging embrace
of
desperated survivors

trying to hold onto
the last traces of humanity
in the heartsickened aftermath.

*

and looking exactly like
their funhouse mirror peered
Trump stumping tweedled dums,

(except for those "diversity" tea shirts
and gender bending beanies,)

the conventional delusional "Democrats"
cheered their double barreled commitment
to
ruling the entire
pale railed
diplomacy failed
honesty jailed

(dearth of empathy veiled)

democracy serrated
tin plated
safely for "us" dominated
colonial cotillion ("interest" prorated)
Hollywood crated
hate sated
nuke cratered world
by
wiping out
all those unsightly

sanctified, sacrificed,
body sliced
and
plighted

(might un"right"ed)

independent "others."

*

'hurrah for "us,"' they chanted.

'hurrah for "us!"'

*

- Evan Hawthorn

[visual aids, courtesy of
 endangered actually
 functioning journalists,
 Tim Burton and
 Mister Fish.]