disorder of the day

and as Alfonso and i add

another blanket to our sleep chair,

there they are,

having lost their belongings

as they fled falling shrapnel

collapsing cherished roofs

to the very edge

of

their abducted open air prison,

occupied by "freedom & democracy"

(for us but not for you™);

shivering in wind wrapped tents,

listening for the revving

of approaching death,

looming in the "rules based" hoarders'

ordering of sky.

the night terror's error

so there we were, seeping sleep,

and rat-a-tat-tat-a-tat-tat

entered fiercely therein,

and it came to me i ought

to rouse myself,

for mayhaps mass murder

was taking place across the street.

moments later

it

finally waded in.

'twas naught but the

coordinated sifting

of

profit ridden rigging's

vigorous churning

of

fictional "years,"

when people cheer

the convened convenience

of closing compartmental doors

on what they've seen and done,

and pretend to enter another,

differently (indifferent)

narratively cordoned

(reflection ill afforded)

"good luck" ordered

(delusion blithely bordered) "happy new year."

and sighing sweet

(in the deeps replete)

the earth swivelled

on around

to fleetly face the sun

(on yet another imaginary

minutely measured "side")

the umpteen quadrillionth time.

and tickled by the two-leggeds'

unconvincing efforts

at reassuring tomfoolery,

Alfonso drifted back

to

seemless unseaming

and

ineffable

timeless dreaming's placeless keep.

*

- Evan Hawthorn

(on an innocent date that asked to remain nameless)

arrogant yet anodyne, 🦅

Biden's blindered auld lang syne...

🥀

in the sights of genocide,

"hungry children wait in line." 🌿

seasonal greetings

 

what's that, Alfonso?

uh-oh!  looks like another one o'them Rushin'

thought corrupters, spreading dissension in the coop!

and right before Thanksgiving, too, when our righteous forefathers

taught us about togetherness by holding hands long enough

to stuff their othered feathered victims!

my, my!  what's a right thinking, democracy's cloaked hypocrisy stocked,

independence plucked, "freedom" deranged chicken to do?

[so Alfonso's gone beyond those rule ordered profit shelfed "self" imposed borders

 once again, peeking under Southern moons.  and naturally, as one would, i went

 and asked his whiskers if they'd brought us back anything worth sharing. ]:

and then, sticking to his guns, the War Mongers Are Us "Freedom & Democracy"

stamped and ossified audience identification puppet blew it once again...

for back in June his Blinkin' Nod tripped over to China, and only 24 hours after

a "somewhat positive statement of the meeting" was released, Mr. Biden,

afflicted with the same borg-like sickness that makes all modern day "American"

"leaders," having sworn off the very notion of diplomacy and, god forbid,

respect for others, blithely pronounced President Xi Jinping a 'dictator.'

at the time, the Chinese government was not amused, calling Mr. Biden's

remarks "extremely absurd and irresponsible."  (go figure.)

but nevertheless, some passing angel or significant other possessed Xi Jinping

to graciously give that unbridled sacrifice provoker ("to the last Ukrainian")

and resolute genocide abider yet another chance, meeting Mr. Biden for an

avidly promoted and manifestly choreographed photo shoot near San Francisco.

the Chinese spokesperson set out the agenda, thus:

President Xi Jinping noted that there are two options for China and the U.S.

in the era of global transformations unseen in a century:

the first is to enhance solidarity and cooperation and join hands to meet

global challenges and promote global security and prosperity;

... and the other is to cling to the zero-sum mentality, provoke rivalry

and confrontation, and drive the world toward turmoil and division.

as any kindly presence kindled with rationality might expect,

they were pinning frail hopes on that first path.

but shortly after their meeting Mr. Biden,

like energizer's wound up self-aggrandized strumpet,

sure as shootin' plodded down that blind arrogance trail.

for in a press conference in Woodside, California, he was asked again

to comment on this "dictator" business.  and here is what he went and said:

"well, look, he is.  i mean, he’s a dictator in the sense that he — he is a guy who runs

 a country that — it’s a communist country that is based on a form of government

 totally different than ours."

how's that for eloquence?

in one telling swoop, summing up the folly of the fell United States?

it's us again' 'em, no matter the fuck what.

now, given the horrid state of that two flavoured, 24-7 trumpeted,

profit centres of the Masters of War dependably regurgitated,

delusion instilling "news," the protractedly distracted humans

here in the belly of the beast are not exactly known

for focusing on reality.

but one ought to be informed, just the same,

that the Democracy Perception Index is the world’s

largest annual study on how people perceive

that hurling invective of the Western collective

bandied about notion called "democracy."

and it finds that seventy-six percent of the

people identifying as "Americans" believe

that 'democracy is important.'  but only

fifty-four percent answer yes when asked

if their country is in fact democratic.

meanwhile, in that yellow peril ridden

inscrutably indubitable "othered" nation

those evidence free "liberal" and "conservative"

presses of freedom digressed so uniformly love to disparage,

the percentages of persons who responded yes

to those very same questions are eighty-eight and seventy-three.

*

maybe just maybe "Americans" don't know everything about everything after all.

maybe imagining the Chinese are out to take over the world is just garden variety

projection, given their actual history, say, compared to the five hundred years

of blood flooded pale nailed civilisation sailed colonial inflicted misery,

or glancing at that single foreign military base, protecting a straight through which

shipped oil must pass, and then ogling the more than eight hundred foreign military

bases the self-anointed "leader of the free world" has managed to wrap around

its connection to humanity pared, "terror" unspared, "global battlefield."

mayhaps, just perhaps, their efforts to build railroads and link commerce across

the Global South, without telling anyone what kind of government to have,

is actually a nice thing,

and the domination afflicted pride addicted whiter than right folks

here in the stolen "homeland" ought to accept that in fact

they truly don't own the world

and might,

just yet,

still have a fleeting chance

to learn to live and let live,

(for once in their "exceptionally" dented,

we're right and you're wrong freely vented,

unprecedented war crimes unrepented,

intensely self-focused history.)

*

well, it's a thought, anyway.

(treat it gently, it's in an honesty estranged place.)

an open letter wrenched from a riven heart

[to all my dear friends who keep passing around

the "can't we just get along" coasting posts

wrapping an ongoing decades long genocide

in "religious differences"]:

*

i'd ever so like to try and help you see

that

that's the spurious line

the profit aligned

common humanity maligned

mainstream fisheries spew.

it's NOT what's happening AT ALL.

it's in fact a systematic attempt

to remove indigenous people

from

their homeland,

held in place by the racist placist colonial coterie;

(that "Democracy" mockery rallied round the United States.)

*

it's not as if the two million residents

of

Gaza's open air prison

can

peacefully protest,

because when they do they kill them anyway.

(and honest to goodness

 the Israelis actually

 refer to that as "mowing the lawn.")

*

and, of course,

other avenues are off limits, too,

like the compassionate countries in the Global South

mounting a resolution in the UN every single year,

which the domination addicted

capital of capital invariably vetoes

(precisely as it manacles sustenance for Cuba.)

*

i know the m(isl)edia's militantly conformist

sorority of authority's narrative subterfuge

engulfs everything around us,

and frames toxicity's boxed in phones,

but how can one not recogise

the truth of what they're seeing,

(right behind the blindered bleating)

when this is the VERY WAY

the

pride glided genocide abided

we-make-up-the-rules-

of-might-sided-right's

"others" derided midnight blight,

crouching over the Western Hemisphere,

managed to mount "freedom's" beacon

on

the still bleeding disaster site

of

a stolen "homeland?"

*

- Evan Hawthorn, the 21st of October, 2023

roving reporter Alfonso's first big break

 [ the thing is, you can see right through them.  even passed the CIA applied siding
      of defensive psychology that hems in all their boxed in claim framed windows.

  here's roving reported Alphonso with a whiskered kernel of actual news
  the mainstream teaming seams will no doubt cover with frosting.]:

*

notwithstanding mined currencies and pipelined subterfuge,

it turns out the CIA embedded authoritarian donkeys' deranged

'Not Trump' audience identification puppet wants more oil,

in the run up to the "election" and what may be

another proxy epoxied flaring up war with Iran.

so now, after hounding the poor democratically elected

Venezuelan government all this time,

(since the lumpen Trump's crowned thine hoods
 tried to prop up an unelected imaginary "president"

 while "SuperPower" affliction's
 British bromanced cutpurse goons

 helped steal the Venezuelan peoples' money,

 and then, when that brazenly appointed bozo

 failed to gain any popular support,

 like the exceptional pirates they concisely are,

 they "enacted sweeping sanctions"

 with the goal of collapsing the Maduro administration,

 causing widespread suffering and contributing
 to the deaths of tens of thousands,

 as "Freedom & Democracy's" election immune mockery,

 cheered on by its hypothetical "free press" crockery,

 ever so loves to do,)

they've gone and suddenly decided, you see, to lift

those very sanctions on Venezuela's oil and gas sector!

the State Department helpfully explained that

"all other sanctions will remain in place."

adding insult to injury, they'll also resume deporting

the desperate Venezuelan migrants who've tried to

escape their bipartisan sifted "backyard" drifted

viciously inflicted misery.

the next round is planned for Saturday.

(so set the date, and get that Barbie & Ken

 authority penned 24-7 dinned popcorn a'fluffin'!)

*

- Alfonso the Mouse

[say, can you even imagine "the news" coming over honestly like this,

 without appealing to the profanity of Hollywood addled vanity?

 you may say i'm a dreamer,

 but mayhaps Yoda had it right,

 and verily there is,

( to say the very least,

 and sprinkle it with yeast,)

 another. ]