"dust to dust (a toting of the score)"

 

*🐚

and then another pair
of unaccountable war criminals,

competing with Hitler and Leopold II
for the pale railed
ourselves we hailed

Genocide Prize,

passed into the
dearth of humanity's

ashes heaping sea,

where failed conscience weeps
in
the 'Free Press' redacted
mainstreamed and distracted

phone staked and raked
framing sweeps
of
consciousness tamed
(honesty waned)
connection drained

(loneliness creeping)

golden rule shuttered

identity focused
nothingness buttered

bordered conformist
'our success' ruddered

(history stuttered)

uttering deeps of forgetfulness,

*

ceaselessly reaped
by
profit hopped
patriotism sopped

(stolen 'homeland' cropped)

selective freedom's
reality unrealing

violence sealing
compassion's ceiling

lost respect for 'others' congealing

'self' dealing
(creeded needing)

toasted Earth's
depletion seeding
('progress' weeding)

manunkind extinction deeding

Demicon~Republorant
(seeming's seaming)
'our community'
standards teaming

censor styed
and
AI eyed

only things matter

heedless seeping into sleep;

*

laying down their souls to keep

that "long starless midnight of racism and war" (MLK),

reeled in by 'elective' 'winners'
of
imaginary 'democracy'

in that "us" against the rest, 'American' score.

*

- Evan Hawthorn 🌿
(the tenth sunrise in yet another repetitive new yeared guise)

the talking deads

*

and then the NATO thugs,
snug in the fell sway
of the "us" against "them"
pale railed wagon circling
irreflective collective west,

went and asked,

'what do your pensions and healthcare matter
when you can "serve" "freedom" & "democracy™"
by helping us kill off that
"evil" "axis"
of
independent "others,"

construed as "threats™"
to the world's greatest
stolen homeland's
"full spectrum dominance™"?

and all the Demicons and Republorants
nodded their
snickering
and
bickering

already dead heads.

*

and in the mean while . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (a soul tolled telling of what Ruba said)

*

and meanwhile,

as most of the
protractedly distracted
frame tamed
hollowed halo hallowers
in
the belly of the stolen "homeland"

that calls itself the name
of
an entire hemisphere

sat down
to
mythically stirred Thanksgiving dinners,

in another part of the humanity deserted
border hoarded and barrened earth,

being purposefully starved
as part of the "leaders of the free world"
lavishly produced ethnic cleansing campaign,

proceeding full tilt at the very moment
"America" licked its elective wounds,

Ruba, a mother of two, had this to say:

"i am trapped with my children under relentless bombs, rockets, and bullets, with nowhere to run. my mother is paralyzed, and i cannot leave her behind. my brother has been killed, my husband was taken, and i don’t know if he’s alive. our home was destroyed over our heads, and we survived by a miracle.

"with no food, no clean water, and constant fear, both my children have developed rashes, and my daughter is passing blood, but there is no medicine, no help, and absolutely nothing i can do. they cry and ask me why we can’t just leave, why their father isn’t with us, why we can’t go back to a normal life."

*

i guess she'll have to explain to them
all about the Demicons and Republorants,

sharing their god given right
to
tell themselves that they're

the onliest (loneliest)

"essential folks" that matter.

*

hurrah for the western collective,

seeping o'er the sheepened sleeps,

raking in the dough.

*

- Evan Hawthorn

pointed no return

and there we are inspirited whirls,
having reached the utterly
beyond redemption point
in which
imaginary liberals
 insistently dismiss
votes for sane humans

 running against

a colonially furnished live aired genocide
and
relentless piling up of world war three

as

"punishing"

"imperfection."

*

stars above have mercy please,

for here in the teaming
elective belly
of mainstream Death's
 profit hopped
  humanity cropped
   delusion fusioned schemery,

"practically" no one the bloody hell does.

the General's Plan (an elective rampart panned)

and then a soldier stationed at the Netzarim Corridor said,

“the goal is to give the residents who live north of the Netzarim area a deadline
to move to the south of the Strip.  after this date, whoever will remain in the north
will be considered an enemy and will be killed.

it doesn’t conform to any standard of international law.  people sat and wrote
a systematic order with charts and an operational concept, at the end of which
you shoot whoever isn’t willing to leave.

the very existence of this idea is unfathomable.”

*

unfathomable, indeed. but of course,
it has the fulsome unconditional support
of the Demicons and Republorants,

so gosh awful busy these oh! so distracted days
plundering social uplift
to arm their assassins the bullied world over

and telling their teaming followers
and mainstreaming chorus hollowers
to
only focus those pretty contracted minds
on the history repeating its redacted crimes
imaginary end of rhymes

entirely choiceless election

*

so once again

(the "freedom" fiefdom's owners can say)

they have our tolled consent.

*

- Evan Hawthorn, the 17th of October, 2024

forgiveness

and then a heart tattered muse found us at a loss.

for how will we ever
be able to forgive
the domination deluded
imaginary "Democrats"

for allowing
their walking undead
presumptive consumptive
we-make-up-the-"rules-based"
border hoarding disorder's

lavishly furnished
PushmiPullyu genocidal pets
to
attempt to kill the spirit
of
the people of Lebanon?

*

"fascist" strutted Trumpery snake oil skullduggery
  OR
"progressively" illiberal "new normal" conformist fascists;

it's absolute evil however you shellac it.

*

a poem for Hassan (etched by a lacerated heart)

*

for there he was,
holding up the spirits
of
so very many

truly independent souls,

the kind the "rules based"
responsibility erased
violence steepled
fascism templed

(delusion contusioned)

racism corded (wagon circling)
profit sworded (mass murder projecting)
consciousness thwarted (reflection disinfecting)

freedom to kill instilled
war porn thrilled
AI chilled
boarder hoarding order

(obviously)

has no use for.

*

and so,
with the mockery of democracy's
lorded over
tax dollars in tow,

along came those
"anti-Semitism" insolated
pure race percolated
free range arranged
"protection" deranged
apartheid fanged

(respect for others hanged)

genocidal attack dogs,


believing still

they had the power

to snuff those candles out.




- Evan Hawthorn
(the 29th bloody ember of a fallen September)