and even in a betrayed world in which other nation's truthtellers can be viciously tortured for decades by a violence worshipping, secrecy sanctified, security booby trapped, democracy staved, "full spectrum" domination craved, pale railed, independence jailed, wagon circling and terror projecting unrepentant collective west, blessings can occasionally still muddle through.

* sigh *

and hearing Vladimir Putin's ringing observance that “ultimately, the selfishness and arrogance of Western states led to the current extremely dangerous state of affairs,"

Alfonso the Mouse went and said, 'twill offer dubious comfort indeed

when man unkind arrives at doom's dearth of humanity anointed door,

to console itself with the hard won knowledge that, ultimately,

"democracy and freedom" turned out to mean

voting in selfish arrogance,

over and over and over again.

and in the fathomless depths of the silent cosmos,

there was no one left to hear

that tedious refrain,

rumoured by the ghosts

of mindless man unkind,

'we were right,

in

profit's mighted night,

and they, of course, were wrong.'

and now, the news

so, on April 2, Russia called an emergency meeting

of the United Nations Security Council

to condemn the international crime

of attacking a sovereign nation's embassy

(murdering 13 human beings,)

but the US, the UK, and France

refused to condemn the (obvious) culprit

and instead blamed

the

(usual demonised) victim

for what they called

"regional escalation,"

warning them not to respond

to their (lavishly supported)

willful genocidal pet's

blatant provocation.

*

that ought to tell "Americans"

everything they need to know

about

just who

the consumptive presumptive

profit indicted

domination addicted

equality conflicted

"SuperPower" bowered

colonial cotillion

of

colluding threats

to

peace on earth actually are.

but, alas,

most of them are still hooked

to the empire crack

called "the news."

and now, let's turn to sports.

*

- Alfonso the Mouse

an Obscure quote

what does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not?  all the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care.  that excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.

- Thomas Hardy

(in "Jude the Obscure")

homecoming

Alfonso and i are ened to note the homecoming of citizen informant Daniel Hale

("treasonous" "enemy" of domination's state) whose crimes include pointing out that,

for example, during a five-month period of "Operation Haymaker" (an acutely

contemptuous entitling within the brutal unprovoked invasion of Afghanistan)

nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were NOT the intended targets.

welcome home, brave Daniel,

(champion of illumining compassion);

thank you for so courageously
placing your bit of our
universal soul

directly in the
line of ire's

honesty punishing fire

in order to selflessly
(soulfully) tap into

the mockery of democracy's
relentless
and
resolute

mislaying of humanity.

freedom of choice amidst the hands of oppressors

for even as he took those
irretrievable steps,
Aaron went and said,

'i’m about to engage
in an extreme act of protest,
but compared to what people
have been experiencing in Palestine
at the hands of their colonizers,

it’s not extreme at all.'

*

and of course he was right,
here in the colonial collective west's
moribund reflectionless extremity,

it's not so extreme after all.

not when compared with,
say,

having one's cells blown apart,

suffocating under collapsed buildings,

undergoing surgeries and amputations without anesthesia,

starving to death,

watching loved ones die at the hands of pitiless colonizers,

all normalized now
by
a fabulous wealth hoarding
domination lording

memory hole fueled
socially tooled
staged dueling
cruelty grueling

conformity saddled
piracy addled
intelligence embattled

election immune ruling class.

*

rest in peace,
brave
and
fully conscious Aaron,

forever in my
tattered heart's

open ended lease.