Evan's Blog

[and then the flickering book of lacing faces sparked an ember,
relaying a lost fragment from the ides of crossed Julys.

for quite affirming Alfonso's oft aired inkling
that a certain 'self'less elf is apt to be too subtle,

two weeks and six years ago
an epic poem foamed up
from an unwanted poster
in the plushed awkward hush
of transparency's crypt,

unhitching the Spirit of Kassandra's Passing Clasp
to obliquely leak a treasonous soliloquy.

and given how that shoulder parked Jiminy Cricket Leo Tolstoy had gone and divined "once we accept, for a single hour or in a single exceptional case, that there can be something more important than sympathy for others, there is no crime against humanity that we cannot commit with a clear conscience"

what could we do
but tuck in

the rest of that
relative time
misplaced
misted gist

and improve it?]:

"keep us safe"

(a bolt revolting
the "best" beset folds
of
pride preened
and winningly beguiled
'self' fulfilled and privilege tilled
pillage managed doldrums
in
seventeen unAmerican styled,
erstwhiled unsettlings)
by
Evan Hawthorn
*

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

immaculately screened people,

in the ubiquitous
undead stead
of
ramparted glare,

pledging allegiance
to identity-plied,
privilege personified,

a 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's

relentless usurpation,

twiddling
his
tipping dominoes,

dodging natural
comparisons
with Hitler

(for successfully
normalised,
reality twisted,
presumption encysted,
insistently enlisted
'mine'd out of mind
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 all 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 even 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
hosts of hysterical hallucinations
from
ghost written 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

flawlessly lawless thing);

as his puritanically revered,
slavery depraved,
dearth enberthed, 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,
histrionically assailed,
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 inducing stone age

genocide obliging

oil sleeked cage;

as his teamed and seeming,
forted, purported,
distortion escorted
'liberals' and 'conservatives'

(by all their other warn out 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
(responsibility reviled)

projection infected

denial "sided"

profit will out

righteous pride piled

in god we trussed's

redoubt;

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 weeded reeds;

those (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 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 that
voraciously battered
determined independence)

to the next generations
of fiendish inventions
that sizzle off skin
and leave no

trace

so dependably advertised
by Hollywood's spurting,

flirtful diverting,

crowning
of
thy nation hooded

("others" murdered)

"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" bereft
and righted might
indivisibly clothed
pocketed and cloned
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
CIA rigged,
slyly apocryphal,
hedged and betting,
rogue and bogus
simmering droves
in
rabid packs
of head chopping,
slickly flicked,
terror fendered,
avidly funded
fundamentalists

and the staged rage
of "free press" enhanced,
covertly financed,
rabble rousing,
thug recruiting,
"freedom" espousing
molotov rebels

aimed wherever
uniformly despised
and
demonised nations,

still unaligned
and
independent,

have managed to survive,

with the fulsome support
of the foaming upper crust's

decaying dust to 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

sifted and rifted

"freedom" to kill shilled

slight of upper handed
puppetry

inflicting dictators

(and rechristened "terrorists")

in all their bleached
and brightened,

gory regime gleamed 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
or
slumming Venutian

clapping a few eyes
on the rank trail
of
(bought thought tanked)

bank cranked misleaders

would likely be able to grasp,

without even straining
the universal integrity
of
follow the money 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 amiss
bipartisan charted
and
mainstream hosed

imposed "protection",

leering through ominous
Orwellian foreshadows
far
ahead of its chiming 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
elective inflected
ambition contusioned
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 Epstein looms of doom
in
the smirking and gloating
white men in suits pursuit
of
the freeboot looting
Freudian gloaming...

why, 'tis Jack the Ripper himself

bewailing
the
brittle chipped fingernails

frantically scratching his face

(forever calling those
strangle dangled fingers

foreign "threats"),

paving the John Wayne
memorial pilgrim praised,
dawn's early light

(that lit up multiple
Cheyenne massacres)

morally unphased

(razed and braised),

national scolding make my days,

semiquincentennial glazed,

smiley face placed tutorial daze

of the good dead injun
mother of bombs and just deserts
sanctimonious happy endings
golden oldie likeness molded
inherently racist craze

for the high tech blissed,
benevolence tressed,

popcorn digressed,

righted side
of
history caressed,

industrious obliteration
of
vulnerable victims;

glaring suspiciously
from the fanning,
blue eye spying 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 that 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
and
mainstream creamed

tinned din spinning

creedings of greed,

affixing its agenda
on the redoubtable scaffolds
of age old anxiety's
preexisting
need to be right blight
and
"stable" gabled fables,

cabled by tolding's
ultra 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
ostriches to the slaughter
bought their first
versed hearse
of
world war lost,

sinking in
its stainless fabricked,
surreptitiously classed,
top brassed propaganda
by the
"us" against "them"
templed and envenomed
talking head swelling
fell 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
had so conveniently
covered 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,
and AI pricked

Barbie and Biff
icons 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 infested 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
rounded up by spot and fido
bone chasing drones,
endangered species
all gone missing,
uppity primate
giddily pittanced,
fare thee oil well riddanced,
summer splintered
nuclear midwintered,
Congress of Clowns
sent in
but already drowned,
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
neighbours'
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"
scarecrow appointed
quadrennially paraded,
lauded, pandered and boarded,
lorded, lawfared,
bruited and hoarded,

(beyond the curtain "ordered")

codependent independence drag

'tis of thee,

that sole exceptional
genocide abiding
sea
of
shining "we",

the exasperated,

Alzheimer
sucked,

patriot missile
and
dead eyed drone ducked,

"intelligence" uncatered

word of honour cratered

helter-skeltered masses
imprisoned and tortured

and in her
tatters
shattered

battered lady sings.