"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)