the lethal ism of the founding fathers (a psalm in search of comprehension)

 "our policies will never be based on claims to exceptionalism.  we protect our interests

  and respect the interests of other countries.  we observe international law and believe

  in the inviolable central role of the UN."

          - Vladimir Putin (from his recent speech, so at odds with the State of the Union

             precedent set by America's pantheon of exception pandering presidents.)

*

i wonder

if those proud primates

clothed in the rumoured,

pleated conceit

of the emperor's Americans

will ever be able to see

that it's their
very own

homegrown protectorate,

invested with the sacred

defining narrative

of threatened escalation

and proliferating myth

(the incorporated owners

of obliquely reeking,

cancerous cliques,

those emanations of irresponsibility

supremely deemed

to exclusively matter,

with their tank-cranking 'think' tanks

and vetted, indebted,

manicured batches

of distractfully bickering

racketeering bitches,

that lavishly remunerated

rotting lot

of identity framing,

flame retarding,

blame projecting,

binary blindering,

memory weeding,

screed feeding misleaders;

mainstreamed and laymansplained

by the deigning of dukes

and vicarious viscounts

at the Times & the Post;

those savvy automatic, self-censoring satraps

with seats on every hoarding board

that reaps reward

from whoring high-tech swords,

and all the other

knighted abettors,

pruning speeches,

grooming leeches

and listening at doors),

far better than any

of their

pitched and stitched,

cast and plastered monsters,

who insist on consistently

emulating Nazis.

*

for without their bullying,
preeminent example

of lesser, blessed,

and protectively dressed

vengeful,

'necessary' evil,

their Saudi, Israeli, & Al Qaeda allies;

(that myopic camel-lodged tryclops

of Abraham's extremist bedfellows)

and the g [for grasping] seven,

(the sunset sibling sorority

of paling colonial collaborators)

might slip from their

corralling,

corroborating sway,

putting those haunted

blatantly racist,

exceptional horns away.

for 'tis only

We-the-Mesmerized,

Insecured-People;

the squatters of distraction

on compassion's

stinted dearth

of stolen homeland,

with their divinely minted denial,

patrolling injustice,

and hallucinations of envy;

lulled by the

unreflecting

imprisoned prism

of freedom's

vain illusions;

at the trickling and teaming,

red, white & blue

tribal beck & call

of Profit's preying demons

who must

rouse ourselves

to find

all of

ourselves

and,

finally discover

in the freeing

forgiveness

such newfound contact

with inclusiveness

would naturally incur

our very first inkling

of civilizing,

humanity-valuing,

liberated

by its own

illuminating

borderlessness,

actually factual,

functioning

Democracy.

*

(for without that

hypothetical

link with
longed for sanity

and berth for living worth,

of thee i cannot

honestly

bring myself to sing.)

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- Evan Hawthorn, the 2^nd of March, 2018