Chapter 120: BBC News (Nation Speaking Peace Unto Nation?)

I hear BBC news,

it’s noise deluge,

speaking to me in my language, allegedly.

It spits out figures and gives no time to absorb,

spouting contention and arguments,

asking only select participants.

Reporting pain, and drain, negative views,

it’s hard for me to feel anything but confusion,

disorientation, and generalized hate.

That’s quite an achievement,

in this day and age,

fostering yet more rage.

Alas, how I miss what I thought used to be,

BBC news.

…

Whatever happened to “Nation speaking peace unto nation”?

 

(To be continued…)

               

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Досье CCXIV: Les Autres… Reactive!

Что за херня, господа?

Creeping, encompassing

conspiracy.

Your hegemony cloaked in alleged legitimacy…

… seeks and seeps to destroy.

(And, we lament, so tired of being the eternal

misunderstood target)

(Lest you forget

the others

are philosophers)

 

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Досье CLVIII: Allusions & Delusions… Excite, Delight, Fright… No Truth In Advertising, All Is Exploitation…

They have the girl posing with beer,

it accentuates her appeal,

for the target,

what they’d like to feel. …

Of course, it’s baloney,

bullshit,

phoney.

Look at the bottle,

closer,

it’s full,

and you are fools,

for believing

Estonian lies and hybrid warfare.

 

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Досье CXXXII: Troika, Interconnected… American Problems Are World Problems…

Detachment,

allows everyone,

disparate,

to progress their agenda,

regardless of carnage.

Drugs, evil, gangs, pain.

…

Oliver North,

Sheepshead Bay hero,

yes man, can-do man,

are you listening?

Repenting?

…

Mixed-up,

real Americans,

know it’s complicated.

(…Please desist from blaming us

for everything…)

 

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Досье CXXVII: Fourth of July, Arizona Sky…

That’s the sound of freedom, right there, said the preacher,

full of hubris and pride, pointing skyward at the fighter jet,

breaking the sound barrier, making the air shudder,

shattering the peace.

…

Indeed, that’s the sound of military-imposed “freedom”, I reply,

from a godless system, on high.

…

Happy Birthday,

to me, you and

America.

 

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Досье CXIX: Innocence, Fused & Confused…

If you think about it…

in a sense,

innocence

doesn’t live here any more.

The child has come of age and realizes the futility of it all. He/she withdraws. Taut. Ready to explode.

Quiet and deep-thinking, like a Finn, and all that entails.

(Bread basket travesty…)

… Molotov Cocktail.

 

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Досье CIX: “CIA… (Totally Offensive)”

Happy Independence Day!

Six nights ago, and always…

M16s like candy,

agree or die.

…

El Presidente is our resident

patriotic rodent

(your oppressor,

our puppet dictator),

obedient to the true ruling classes,

backroom guys,

money gods,

sacred capitalist dogma.

…

Welcome, motherfuckers, to the land of the free,

coming to your country,

opening a factory,

giving you jobs,

“opportunities”,

putting you to work,

indeed…

…

Put down your AK-47s, too easy to use,

too enabling,

and listen to us

we’ll complicate your lives,

make things interesting,

give you everything you didn’t know you needed,

confuse,

exploit,

abuse.

“Fulfilment”…

…

Drink the kool-aid child and dream,

of freedom,

to buy hollow commodities,

with cocaine-laced dollars,

hell, yeah,

those bastards keep the economy going,

you in the gutter,

*our* dreams, riches and power intact.

Happy Interdependence Day, in deed and fact.

 

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Досье CII: Let’s Get Nuclear…

They told me he wasn’t as vulgar as LBJ,

or,

as lecherous as JFK.

Indeed.

Nevertheless, in his own way…

…

When I walked into the office the chief was berating the intelligent-looking guy:

“For Christ’s sake, Henry, think big! Let’s get nuclear, goddammit!”

Mortified at the blasphemy, involuntarily I laughed.

Bemused, they looked through me, a woman,

an open door.

 

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Досье XCVII: Everything is Kompromat.

Every thought you think.

Every urge you indulge and/or struggle against.

(… Resist!)

Every order you obey.

Everything you say.

Every word you read and/or hear,

affecting, …

infecting your perspective.

Constant barrage,

constantly compromised.

Trust no one.

Your time will come.

Kompromat.

 

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Досье XCVI: Applying, For What?

“You’ve heard of the bald-hairy-bald-hairy theory, for our leaders, right?”

I nodded.

“Well, I apply it to women,” he said, looking downward, meaningfully, expectantly…

 

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