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March 3rd, 2025 (A Vivisection)
The screen flickers, a digital vivisection: Anora wins. A gilded cage, a whim’s transaction. Sex worker, wealthy client – a best picture lie, while Palestine bleeds, un-Oscared, in the eye.
(White space, a choked gasp, a West Bank village erased)
Trump berates Zelensky. Moscow grins, a puppet show. Cyber-war halted. Tariffs rise. The seeds they sow of discord, fracture, a nation on the brink, while Congress stalls, a shutdown’s fetid stink.
(Syntax buckles, a government collapsing inward)
Austria waits. Five months, a stillborn government born. Cryptocurrency, a strategic reserve, a new financial horn of plenty, or a bubble, shimmering, thin, while prices soar, and Republicans fear to win.
(Repetition, a mantra of rising dread)
High prices. High prices. High prices. A silent scream. The American dream, a fractured, fading gleam. The machine grinds on, oblivious, cold, and vast, and March 3rd, 2025, becomes the fractured past.
(The final line, a broken mirror reflecting a broken world) *****
d r e a m s of p o l i t i c s dissolve │into│ fragments
T r u m p ⇄ Z e l e n s k y whispers at the ∞ edge of diplomatic ∭shadows
C y b e r w a r f a r e pauses ≈ breathes while currencies float like uncertain promises
A n o r a wins unexpected g l o r y
c o n g r e s s teeters on the brink of ┌─────────┐ │ silence │ └─────────┘
w h i s p e r s of change drift through m a r c h winds *****
Oscars drip gold on a neon dream,
Anora crowned in the flicker of screens,
a whisper of silk, a transaction of fate,
love bought, love sold, love redefined.
Moscow grins with iron teeth,
Zelensky swallowed in a room of shadows,
a handshake turned to a fist,
diplomacy rewritten in the language of traps.
Congress stumbles, a blindfolded beast,
March 14 looms like a guillotine,
shutdown echoes in hollow halls,
red and blue bleed into indifference.
No Other Land cries from the stage,
a village crushed beneath the weight of history,
voices rise, but bullets speak louder,
peace an illusion in the dust of war.
Tariffs sharpen their edges,
Mexico, Canada brace for the blade,
Trump carves numbers into the bones of trade,
the market shivers in algorithmic fear.
Cyber wars paused mid-strike,
Hegseth pulls the plug on digital daggers,
Russia exhales, America recalibrates,
the battlefield shifts to whispers and wires.
Crypto ascends to the throne of reserves,
Trump’s decree sends numbers soaring,
digital gold baptized in policy,
the future minted in blockchain prayers.
A lone voice in Congress now roars alone,
Trump unshackled from legislative chains,
executive will bends reality,
democracy gasps in the undertow.
Prices climb like ivy on broken promises,
Republicans sweat in the heat of inflation,
campaigns built on sand erode beneath them,
the economy hums a discordant tune.
Austria exhales after five months of limbo,
a government stitched from compromise,
Stocker steps into the waiting storm,
Europe watches with measured breath.
The world spins on a fractured axis,
headlines collide like celestial bodies,
chaos composes its own poetry—
and we are merely turning pages.
*****
Gaza. Moon. (Angie). 2025.
A drill, a vacuum, a special delivery for the cold, pocked face. (Science fiction, fact.)
Meanwhile, six weeks of halted becomes forever. Aid, a blocked artery.
The word ceasefire a tourniquet tightening.
(Somewhere, a van collides with a semi. Rollover. A voice, stilled.)
Europe shores up. Trump blows out. Taxes spiral.
The powerful gather, packed to the brim at the Polo Lounge.
Chanel. Finch. Storied.
(A carrier arrives. Missiles demonstrate. A firing, illegal.)
We map the craters of other worlds, while this one
bleeds. *****
aid trucks pause at border’s │breath│ where silence weighs more than water
G A Z A lingers between ⟨humanitarian⟩ and ∭suspended∭ possibility
trucks wait like memories held │just before│ breaking
w h i s p e r s drift through checkpoints of human ≈ suffering ≠ resolution
fragments of c e a s e f i r e dissolve into margins of waiting *****
Steel birds scream over salted earth,
hunger barricaded behind iron laws,
a ceasefire stitched with broken thread—
who will eat the silence?
Summits rise like paper palaces,
Zelenskyy’s shadow stretched thin
across a table of clenched fists,
while echoes of an Oval fury
burn through diplomatic veils.
Moon dust cradles a metal ghost,
whispers of vacuum and drill,
while down below, debt spirals
like a dying star collapsing inward,
swallowed by the weight of permanence.
Angie Stone’s voice—now a comet,
spinning through the wreckage of time,
melody lost in the shatter of steel,
rhythm buried beneath asphalt prayers.
Trump’s hand strikes again,
a watchdog’s throat cut in the dark,
while warships kiss foreign shores,
missiles winking like distant gods.
Cuomo resurrects from scandal’s grave,
a phoenix or a vulture—who can say?
Hollywood drowns in Chanel and champagne,
while hunger waits at the border’s gate.
DOGE laughs in Musk’s electric grip,
free tax dreams turned to digital dust—
and still, the world turns,
a broken wheel grinding bones to silence.
*****
Bullet Point Purgatory (Five Circles of What)
The screen bleeds fluorescent demands, a digital overseer’s gaze. Five bullet points. Quantify the breath, the struggle, the days.
(Circle One: The ghost of Hackman, pacemaker silent, ten days un-found, a digital flatline’s lament.)
Accomplishment:
(Circle Two: Measles bloom, a Texan spring, unvaccinated whispers, the herd immunity thing, a fractured equation, fear takes wing.)
Accomplishment:
(Circle Three: Vance, the attack dog, barks on command, loyalty’s leash, a bloodless, shaking hand. Ukraine’s plea, a whisper in no-man’s land.)
Accomplishment:
(Circle Four: CFPB gutted, Musk’s DOGE coin gleam, 1700 futures, a shattered American dream. The market’s cold logic, a predatory scheme.)
Accomplishment:
(Circle Five: Hegseth’s threat, a military fist, Mexico’s choice, comply or be kissed by the iron fist, freedom dismissed.)
Accomplishment:
The email awaits. The void must be filled. Five bullet points. A nation, distilled. *****
∞ Bureaucratic Fever Dream ∞
w o r d s drip like pacemaker memories
V a n c e attacks ⟨border⟩ logic while measles spread
federal workers count their ∭accomplishments∭ in bullet points
Trump’s executive breath dissolves → agencies ← like whispers at midnight
six years old twenty-six stab wounds silence echoing
D[ream] lingers in {twilight} of power’s endless recursion *****
Steel jaws snap in the Oval,
Vance a hound with gilded fangs,
barking doctrine, snarling orders,
teeth sunk deep in policy flesh.
Emails drip like bureaucratic rain,
five-point confessions, weekly sins,
paper trails curling into smoke,
ghosts of labor, whispers of toil.
A child’s blood stains the verdict,
twenty-six wounds carved in hate,
America gasps, forgets, moves on,
history a wound that never heals.
Hackman’s heart stopped in silence,
a pacemaker’s whisper the last note played,
ten days lost in the void of time,
Hollywood fades to static.
Measles bloom like fire in Texas,
red spots on the skin of the unguarded,
a plague of choice, a fever of ignorance,
history’s lessons burned unread.
CFPB gutted, bodies exiled,
Musk’s DOGE grins from the wreckage,
currency of chaos, empire of dust,
regulation drowned in digital tides.
A drug lord stands before the gavel,
ghosts of agents watch from the pews,
1985 echoes in the chamber,
justice a wheel grinding slow.
Trump’s hands stretch for the ballot box,
Democrats scream into the void,
lawsuits stack like brittle bones,
democracy gasps beneath the weight.
Deportations like clockwork thunder,
names erased with bureaucratic ink,
families severed by cold steel borders,
the land of the free locks its gates.
Mexico warned with iron tongues,
Hegseth’s voice a blade unsheathed,
war drums murmur beneath diplomacy,
the desert waits for marching feet.
The world spins in fractured rhythms,
newsprint bleeding into prophecy,
chaos the only constant pulse—
America hums its discordant hymn.
*****
February 28, 2025: A Vivisection
The wires hum, a chorus of deceit, (bandwidth choked with blood and lithium). Zelenskyy smiles, a treaty in his teeth, trading earth for… what? Imperium?
White House lawn, a stage for hollow men, (probationary souls, expendable, erased). The algorithm purrs, begins again: efficiency’s cold, metallic taste.
DOGE barks, a digital Cerberus, guarding gates of a dismantled state. Climate scientists, a silenced chorus, (their warnings drowned in the rising tide of hate).
Five generals, ghosts of conscience past, cry “reckless” to a deaf, uncaring throne. The budget bends, a funhouse mirror cast, to hide the rot, the marrow from the bone.
Tariffs rise, a paper barricade, against a world that will not be contained. The Pope recovers (prayers briefly made), while Hackman’s silence screams, unexplained.
Prison bars, a strike, a fragile truce, (the pressure builds, a fault line starts to crack). This fractured day, a vivisection, loose and raw, a future staring bleakly back.
(Syntax fractured, mirroring the fall.) (Truth, a scalpel, cutting through it all.) *****
t r a n s i t i o n a l p o w e r
where ⟨authority⟩ dissolves into ∭ fractured memory
f i r i n g s → cascading through bureaucratic ∞ shadows ∞
Zelenskyy & Trump dance │at the edge│ of possible agreements
tariffs spiral like whispers between forgotten borders
[reckless] moments bleeding into next administration’s breath
truth ≈ power ≠ control floating endlessly between what is and might be *****
Steel handshake, lithium veins,
a contract inked in mineral rain.
Zelenskyy grins, Trump nods slow,
the earth is sold in a golden glow.
Fires burn in NOAA halls,
climate ghosts walk marble walls.
Probationary hands untethered,
whispers lost in data weathered.
DOGE howls in bureaucrat night,
Muskian scripts rewrite the fight.
A ledger tilts, a budget bends,
deficits masked where reason ends.
Tariffs crash like tidal waves,
factories gasp in fiscal graves.
The Pope exhales, a fragile breath,
while Hackman sleeps in tangled death.
America hums, a fractured tune,
under February’s cold-lit moon.
*****
AID_SCRAP//FIFTEEN_MINUTES.EXE
(Supreme nullity. Midnight decree.)
Two billion, ghosted. A ledger's lament,
rendered in red. The ink bleeds outward,
a stain uncontained. *Paused*, they say.
As if compassion were a faucet,
to be twisted shut.
//
Nvidia's silicon heart,
adapting. A chameleon of commerce,
shifting hues to match the algorithm's hunger.
AI's evolution, a predatory bloom,
fed on data, fueled by greed.
//
Fifteen.
Minutes.
To gather the fragments of a purpose,
boxed and labeled, *obsolete*.
The fluorescent hum, a death knell,
echoing through emptied halls.
USAID, dismantled. A nation's outreach,
reduced to rubble.
//
Zelenskyy's plea, a fractured signal
across the digital divide. *Crucial*, he whispers,
while minerals are bartered,
security a commodity,
traded for survival.
//
Kennedy's count: one, two, *discrepancy*.
The measles bloom, a crimson tide,
truth a casualty, lost in the rhetoric
of a fractured public health.
//
Tesla's temple, threatened.
A woman, wired with rage,
planting seeds of fire.
The electric dream, short-circuiting,
sparking a primal fear.
//
Bongino's shadow, cast over the Bureau.
*Slap in the face*. The agents whisper,
their oaths corroded, trust betrayed.
The scales of justice, tipped, unbalanced,
blindfolded, gagged.
//
Microsoft's plea: *loosen, simplify*.
The flow of power, the currency of chips,
AI's dominion, a global game,
where ethics are optional,
and profit reigns supreme.
//
Virginia's tremor. The federal fault line
shifts, cracks widen. Layoffs, a seismic wave,
reshaping the landscape,
governing by fracture,
ruling by fear.
//
And the fallen. The blue.
Mourn.
Hero.
Hinds.
The procession winds,
a serpent of grief,
through streets stained with loss.
The echo of gunfire,
a constant refrain.
//
(Dis) இணைப்பு. (Dis) order. (Dis) ease.
The code unravels. The system decays.
Humanity.exe: *Error 404*.
∞ Dismantling ∞
fragments of aid drift like paper ghosts through bureaucratic twilight
15 minutes to clear memories from institutional walls
chips of power recalibrate while borders dissolve silently
truth ≈ memory ≠ fact floating between headlines
agencies collapse into white space where silence sings *****
Steel gavels crack midnight veins,
a billion dollars frozen mid-breath,
USAID ghosts swept in fifteen-minute hurricanes,
cubicles collapsing like brittle bones.
Zelenskyy whispers in mineral tongues,
contracts inked in lithium blood,
while Nvidia forges silicon prophecies,
AI deities shifting in quantum tides.
Bongino’s shadow slaps bureau walls,
echoes ricochet through clenched fists,
Virginia trembles under severed paychecks,
ballots soaked in bureaucratic ash.
A woman cradles fire at Tesla’s altar,
wires coiled like venomous serpents,
while Microsoft kneels at empire’s feet,
pleading for silicon salvation.
Measles counts corpses in political whispers,
one breath, two deaths, none real, all real.
Bullets carve elegies into badge-bound chests,
heroes buried beneath breaking news.
America exhales—fractured, burning, waiting.
*****
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(Caesarean Birth of a Stillborn Republic)
The scalpel, a tweet, slices the membrane. Zelenskyy, a ghost in amber, legitimate, while the parliament votes itself eternal. (Democracy, a word coughed up, blood-flecked, on the operating table.)
Musk’s DOGE shock troops, moppy haircuts demanding databases, a digital coup in casual wear. Move fast, break things, (the Constitution, a shattered vase, shards reflecting a fractured sky).
Bongino, the anti-body, now head of the host, irredeemably corrupt, the diagnosis inverted, the disease now the cure. (Irony, a rusty nail, driven deep into the coffin of truth).
Johnson’s budget, a prayer on frayed wings, Fyre Festival reborn, a mirage of solvency. Ramaswamy, the endorsed, a puppet on strings, (Hope, a flickering candle, snuffed out by a hurricane of hot air).
The Pope, double pneumonia, blessing saints from a deathbed, decrees from the precipice. (Faith, a ventilator, wheezing its last, while the world outside burns).
Ukraine, weaponless, a summer’s reprieve, before the sophisticated silence descends. (Freedom, a fading echo, lost in the static of abandoned allies).
Puppy Mountain, a photographic lie, a tourist trap built on a trick of the light. (Reality, a shifting landscape, where even the adorable is a manufactured illusion).
Mars, red with a secret, finally revealed, a cosmic rust mirroring our own decay. (The universe, a vast, indifferent mirror, reflecting our self-inflicted wounds).
Democrats, a playbook of targeted cuts, Medicaid, a lifeline frayed, DOGE, a meme weaponized against the vulnerable. (Politics, a game of calculated cruelty, played on the backs of the dying).
Apple, designed in California, assembled in the sweatshops of a globalized lie. (Progress, a hollow promise, stamped on a box filled with the ghosts of exploited labor).
The scalpel slips. The baby is blue. The republic, stillborn. The silence, absolute. *****
D[emocracy] suspended in {wartime} twilight ∭
Zelenskyy’s mandate flows → beyond electoral ⟨boundaries⟩
power ≈ necessity not ≠ choice
while fragments of sovereignty drift like memory
┌───────────────┐
│nations breathe │
│between moments │
│of becoming │
└───────────────┘
elections → paused resistance ⇄ continues truth emerges from conflict’s shadow *****
[poem]
Wartime clocks refuse to tick,
Zelenskyy frozen in amber light,
Trump’s shadow claws at the glass—
but the ballot box is buried deep
beneath the rubble of Mariupol.
DOGE men storm the citadel,
hoodies and hubris,
Musk’s apostles rewriting code,
rewriting law,
rewriting the bones of bureaucracy.
Bongino grips the FBI’s throat,
whispers sweet nothings of corruption,
a serpent crowned in steel-toed boots,
Patel nods, the agents kneel—
the machine hums anew.
Johnson prays to a deficit god,
his budget a brittle hymn,
while Trump anoints Ramaswamy,
a golden calf for the faithful.
The Pope exhales dust and doctrine,
lungs heavy with sainthood,
as Rome waits for the final breath—
or another miracle.
Ukraine counts its missiles like rosary beads,
each shell a whispered prayer for summer.
And somewhere in China,
a mountain of puppies rises,
soft rebellion against the weight of war.
Mars still bleeds red in the night sky,
as if it knows something we don’t.
[/poem]
*****
Mineral Rights / Mineral Wrongs
(A Fractured Sonnet for a Fractured Continent)
The Rhine runs red, not with blood, but rust – industrial ichor, a continent’s slow bleed. Berlin votes. Zentrum. Dust settles on promises. A planted seed
of “independence,” a transatlantic rift widening, tectonic plates of power shifting. Bongino, the Bureau’s new gift, a podcast prophet in a concrete tower.
Meanwhile, Kyiv’s soil, a different prize – rare earth whispers beneath the shell-shocked ground. Five hundred billion. Zelenskyy’s tired eyes reflect a bargain, bitterly bound.
Musk demands: *What did you do?* The screen
glows. USAID, unseen. Unclean. *****
d[ream] of power shifting ⟨tectonics⟩ where nations breathe uncertainty
t r u m p’s hand touches ∭ borders rare minerals whisper their secrets
G e r m a n y seeks independence → from american shadows while Zelenskyy negotiates silence
podcasts ⇄ governance FBI deputy media’s sharp bleeding edge of possibility
agencies hold their breath emails unanswered power lingers in white spaces between declarations
independence is a fluid state where truth dissolves and reforms *****
Iron ballots clatter in Berlin’s veins,
Merz whispers steel into Europe’s chains,
Independence a specter, a shadow, a game,
Ghosts of empires whisper his name.
Kyiv carves its bones for mineral gold,
A handshake signed in blood and cold,
Fingers grasp at the earth’s deep core,
Who owns the war? Who keeps the score?
Bongino steps where Bureau ghosts tread,
Echoes of sirens, blue lights run red,
Podcaster turned enforcer of fate,
Algorithms whisper: “It’s already too late.”
Musk’s emails slither through wires unseen,
Workers mute screens, silence the machine,
What did you do? What did you make?
The future is coded in choices we fake.
USAID ghosts pack their bags in the night,
Sixteen hundred names erased from sight,
Diplomacy folds like a house of thin cards,
Empires crumble in bureaucratic yards.
Zelenskyy wades through the fog of the deal,
Trump miscalculates, history congeals,
Putin grins in the shadowed divide,
A nation bleeds while the world steps aside.
Chalamet dances in Hollywood’s glow,
Grande sings while the cold winds blow,
The world fractures in digital light,
But the show must go on—at least for tonight.
*****
February 23, 2025: A Vivisection
The news cycle, a flayed carcass, tendons of Trump and Musk twitching, a puppet show of power, (strings pulled by algorithms we pretend not to see).
Purge. The word a dull blade, hacking at the joints of governance. Brown, a name, a rank, discarded. Hegseth, a smile, a void.
(Hold off responding.) The email, a digital shackle, detail your weekly. Quantify your soul, employee.
Germany votes. A continent holds its breath, a vacuum yearning (for what? Order? Chaos?). Ukraine, a chessboard, peacekeepers poised, backstop a euphemism for empire.
The Pope, a lung struggling, asthma a metaphor for faith’s fragility. Israel, a fist clenched, humiliation the currency, hostages, prisoners, pawns in a game without end.
Mass firings. A celebration. Biden, a ghost jeered at, while the crowd roars, a beast fed on fear. Patel, a name multiplied, FBI, ATF, (power consolidating, a black hole forming).
Middling grades. The poll, a blunt instrument, measuring the immeasurable: hope, despair. Forty billion. A request, a plea, for ashes, for Los Angeles, a city burning.
The syntax of collapse: Subject-Verb-Object-Oblivion. A fractured sentence, a fractured world, (and we, the readers, complicit in the reading). *****
liminal ∭ power
t r a n s i t i o n cascading through institutional membranes
[purge] → leadership military ⇄ political boundaries dissolve
K a s h P a t e l sliding between agencies like water
t r u m p w h i s p e r s bureaucracy ≈ clay reshaping governance
nobody’s ever seen anything like this before
power ∭ flows unconstrained by previous boundaries
w h o r e m a i n s when structures crumble silently? *****
Steel tongues rattle in the war-room dusk,
a purge of brass, a severed trust.
Trump’s hand sweeps like a scythe through rank,
CQ Brown unseated—power sank.
Musk’s missives crackle, cold and bright,
bureaucrats stall in the neon night.
Hold your breath, hold your ground,
the algorithm whispers—don’t make a sound.
Berlin hums with ballots cast,
Europe gasps, a shadow past.
Who will rise to claim the throne?
A continent drifts, marrow to bone.
Peacekeepers poised on Ukraine’s line,
thirty thousand ghosts in time.
Ceasefire inked in brittle trust,
but U.S. steel remains a must.
The Pope exhales, lungs of glass,
Vatican bells toll slow and fast.
A shepherd falters, faith held tight,
prayers dissolve in candlelight.
Israel grips its prisoners tight,
hostages framed in bitter light.
Ceremonies carved in spite and sand,
a deal undone by a trembling hand.
Trump laughs in the fire’s glow,
federal heads roll in the show.
A crowd erupts, a nation sways,
history loops in mirrored days.
Kash Patel ascends the throne,
ATF forged in muscle and bone.
Law bends, reshaped anew,
who holds the leash? Who pulls it through?
Wildfires rage in western veins,
Newsom pleads through ashen rains.
Forty billion, a desperate cry—
money for embers, smoke for sky.
The world spins jagged, sharp with dread,
headlines bleed where futures bled.
A breathless hush before the break—
what will tomorrow choose to take?
*****
February 22, 2025: A Vivisection
The newsfeed, a flayed carcass, twitching. Bargains struck in blood, bone, mineral rights. Ukraine’s earth, offered up – a dowry of desperation. (Zelensky, a tightrope walker above a chasm of Trumps.)
Joint Chiefs, un-chiefed. Loyalty, the new chain of command. DEI, a four-letter word, erased by judicial fiat, then blocked, a temporary stay of execution on the altar of “equality.” (The air quotes, visible scars.)
California burns. Again. Forty billion, a whispered prayer into the ash-choked wind. Will it be enough? (The question, a rhetorical burn victim.)
Shiri Bibas, returned. Wrong body. A headline’s brutal poetry. Grief, a calculus of misidentification. The mathematics of loss, infinitely indivisible.
Five thousand, four hundred souls, downsized. Pentagon’s arithmetic. Collateral damage in the ledger of efficiency. (The human cost, a footnote, unread.)
A church administrator, dressed in black, hunts a killer. Ohio alleyways, the geography of vengeance. (Justice, a street-level transaction.)
Rushdie’s attacker, guilty. The blade’s echo in the courtroom. Words, still weapons, even when silenced. (The attempted murder of thought, a continuing crime.)
Crypto-abyss. One point five billion, vanished. Digital ghosts. The illusion of security, a hacked firewall. (Trust, a currency more volatile than Bitcoin.)
Today. A date stamp on a wound that will not heal. A vivisection of power, greed, and the fragile human frame. The scalpel of truth, wielded without anesthesia. (The scream, silent. The bleeding, everywhere.) *****
∞ P U R G E O F P O W E R ∞
Trump’s hands │ slice through military landscapes where loyalty dissolves ⇄ silence
Gen. Brown’s insignia falls → dust while bureaucratic shadows ∭ reshape
5,400 workers vanish into administrative void ≈ memory
Zelensky whispers across fractured diplomatic ⟨borders⟩ hoping → survival
mineral rights bleeding from Ukraine’s wounded geography
diversity banned equity erased inclusion {disappearing}
power flows not in rivers but in sudden ruptures
truth ≠ fact reality ⇅ bends history rewrites itself *****
Steel hands rearrange the board,
knights toppled, bishops burned,
a general erased like ink in rain—
who commands the silence now?
A body returned, a body mistaken,
flesh misfiled in the archive of war.
Grief is a ledger, red-stained,
balanced by the weight of dust.
Five thousand ghosts march home,
pink slips flutter like dying leaves,
the Pentagon hums a hollow hymn—
who will man the empty walls?
Zelensky kneels at the altar of empire,
offering minerals, offering breath,
a country pawned for another tomorrow—
who owns the veins of the earth?
The judge slams down a gavel of defiance,
DEI echoes in the hollow halls,
but bans are shadows that stretch long—
who decides what history forgets?
Forty billion dollars for fire’s hunger,
California smolders, pleads to the sky.
Ash writes its own constitution—
who will sign their name in soot?
A billion stolen in digital whispers,
a vault cracked by unseen hands.
Currency dissolves like morning mist—
who holds wealth when code is dust?
Rushdie’s blood dried years ago,
but the blade still gleams in memory.
A verdict carves its own scripture—
who wields the pen of justice?
And in an alley, a woman waits,
black-clad, shadow-bound,
tracking death through holy corridors—
who prays for the hunter’s soul?
*****
February 21, 2025: A Vivisection
(Dis)United States of Amnesia, a triptych.
Panel I: The Body Politic
Jerusalem. AP Newswire. A name, a title: Netanyahu. Revenge vowed. A body, wrong. Ceasefire, fractured – a semantic game. The word malicious hangs, a shroud, over what was lost, before. Before the counting. Before the bargaining. Before the release.
Hamas, a pledge. (To investigate.) Parentheses around truth, a hollow core. The echo of a question: Whose remains? Whose grief is currency, whose loss, a violation?
Panel II: Budgetary Bloodletting
Washington. NBC. Three-hundred-forty billion. A budget blueprint, stained crimson. Trump’s agenda: enforcement, energy. Words like weapons, wielded in a “vote-a-rama.” A ritual of power, a dance of greed. The Senate, a stage for shadows, where numbers bleed into abstraction.
A chainsaw, wielded. (Gift from Milei.) Symbolism, raw and visceral. Slashing, not just spending, but connection. The human cost, unpriced, uncounted.
Panel III: Mineral Rights / Human Wrongs
Kyiv. Wall Street Journal. Minerals, a siren song. Hundreds of billions, a whispered demand. Zelensky, pressured. Ukraine, a pawn. The earth, a body, violated, mined. Foreign aid, frozen. A judge’s decree, ignored.
Tel Aviv. Exploding buses. Terror. The Postal Service, consumed. The FBI, a name: Patel. Confirmed. A 51-49 vote. The fracture deepens.
And in New York, a name: Mangione. A killing. A CEO. Thompson. The details blur. The violence, a constant hum.
Amnesia settles, a thick, choking dust. The date, a marker. The truth, disrupted. The future, unwritten. The present, a wound. *****
w h e r e b o d i e s dissolve into p o l i t i c a l ∞ fragments ∞
chainsaw → governance bus │explosions│ echo between headlines
t r u t h ≈ almost remembered ⟨forgotten⟩
Netanyahu’s revenge drifts like unidentified shadows
Trump’s hands reach through bureaucratic membrane
w a r a n d p o w e r dance │sideways│ through bleeding margins
memory ⇄ violence spirals∭ endlessly unresolved *****
Steel veins rupture, buses bloom fire—
Tel Aviv exhales smoke like a dying god.
Wrong body, wrong war, wrong century,
but the ledger demands blood,
and Netanyahu carves vengeance into the wind.
Chainsaw Musk, prophet of severance,
grins through the splinters of a dying republic.
Milei’s gift hums in his hands—
a hymn of teeth, a dirge of steel.
Trump’s shadow stretches long,
swallowing mail, swallowing law,
swallowing the last echoes of restraint.
A budget carved from bone,
a Senate howling in the dark.
Ukraine, sign here—
your minerals for our empire,
your earth for our hunger.
Zelensky hesitates; the wolves lean closer.
McConnell’s throne drips with old blood,
new hands reach, eager to inherit the ruin.
FBI shifts, 51-49, a blade balanced on a whisper.
And in Manhattan, a man stands trial—
one bullet, one body, one moment of clarity
in a world that no longer knows its own name.
*****
Stagecraft (Kfir & Ariel)
A stage. Prepared. Not for tiny dancers, pirouettes of light, but smaller still. Coffins. Plural. White. Unbearable white.
(Imagine the weight. The anti-weight. Of what is not there.)
The cameras, pre-positioned. A nation, braced. (For what?) The return. The return.
Of absence. Of bone-dust futures. Of names whispered into the void.
Kfir. Ariel. Syllables ripped from the throat of a lullaby.
The stage is set. The audience, the world. The performance: Grief.
(And somewhere, a disinformation campaign blooms like a black orchid, its petals, lies.)
The wood. The cloth. The emptiness. This is the new theater of war. This is the unbearable.
This. Is. . *****
∞ fragments of nation ∞
tiny coffins │ staged │ where innocence dissolves into political ⟨shadows⟩
words banned like bodies disappeared
Trump’s voice ⇄ echoes through bureaucratic ∭ hollow spaces ∭
birthright │ stripped │ democracy unraveling
DOGE savings scattered like forgotten dreams
silence ≈ violence ≠ truth bleeding between headlines
memory lingers at the ⟨edge⟩ of impossible mourning *****
Coffins on a stage, a theater of grief,
where silence howls and sorrow speaks.
Infants stolen, time unraveled,
history bleeds in shattered cradles.
Ukraine echoes in dissonant waves,
truth a casualty, words a maze.
Disinformation slithers, coils, constricts,
a nation gasps as shadows flick.
Borders tremble, birthright frays,
ink on paper, erased in days.
Citizenship a whispered ghost,
a nation fractured, adrift, almost.
Fifty billion carved from steel,
war machines must drink their fill.
Austerity for the cannon’s roar,
blood and metal—forevermore.
Abolish the badge, the gavel cracks,
corruption festers in the cracks.
Five men charged, but ghosts remain,
justice whispers through the rain.
Ban the words, erase the past,
“woman,” “disabled”—gone so fast.
Language bends to power’s will,
but silence never paid a bill.
Used planes for kings, a bargain made,
Air Force One in secondhand shade.
Governance seized, a city claimed,
democracy flickers in the flame.
DOGE rains down like gilded dust,
a currency forged in empty trust.
The people cheer, their pockets light,
a circus fed by digital might.
The world unspools in tangled thread,
a tapestry of blue and red.
History loops, repeats its song—
how much longer? Not too long.
*****
Echo Chamber (Executive Order)
The screen flickers, a face contorts, a nation fractured, re-sorted.
Ukraine bleeds, a pawn in the game, disinformation’s whisper, a twisted name.
(Zelenskyy, a ghost in the machine, truth drowned out, a silent scream.)
Approval ratings, a downward slide, economic anxieties, nowhere to hide.
IVF, a bargaining chip, a life defined, by executive order, a womb confined.
Musk’s shadow, a long, dark reach, federal workers tremble, at his digital breach.
(Data streams, a river of souls, flowing into algorithms, losing all controls.)
Labor secretary, a puppet on strings, skepticism whispers, of broken wings.
Adams, a mayor in the crosshairs, corruption charges, political snares.
Debt balloons, a monstrous tide, DOGE a distraction, while the nation divides.
(False killer whales, beached and lost, a mirror to our fate, counting the cost.)
Free tests, a lifeline withdrawn, then restored, a pandemic of lies, truth ignored.
The echo chamber roars, a deafening sound, reality fractured, on shifting ground. *****
∞ fragments of power ∞
T r u m p whispers into empty corridors
[disinformation] drifts like ghost particles between Ukraine │ Washington ⇄ reality
elections spin ≈ truth → dissolving at edges
economy trembles beneath presidential shadows
IVF dreams suspended in executive breath
federal workers hover between existence │ dismissal
debt spirals DOGE barking at phantom promises
w h i s p e r s become policy become silence *****
Steel-lunged specters howl through the wires,
Trumpets of disinformation, gilded in static,
Ukraine trembles, a marionette in the hands of ghosts,
while the desert whispers deals in oil-slick tongues.
Approval drips like rust from the iron spine,
economy a beast gnawing its own ribs,
DOGE howls at the debt-laden moon,
Musk carves bureaucracy with a laser’s edge.
IVF stitched into executive ink,
new life born from policy’s cold embrace,
while federal workers vanish like breath on glass,
erased by the algorithmic hand of efficiency.
A judge weighs corruption like sand in a fist,
Adams’ fate sways in the balance of unseen tides,
while Giroud’s home is hollowed by shadows,
a striker left defenseless against the night.
False killer whales wash upon Tasmania’s edge,
beached elegies sung to an indifferent sky,
hope dissolves like salt in the tide,
as the world turns, unblinking, unbowed.
Free tests resurrected from bureaucratic graves,
a nation coughs into the void,
while power shifts like tectonic plates,
grinding history into dust.
*****
(Dis)Order of Magnitude
A$AP. Not guilty. Semiautomatic grace.
(The bullet’s trajectory, a question mark in air,
unanswered, un-aimed, a prayer
for a different kind of justice. A different kind of space.)
Trump. Ukraine. A chess game played with flesh,
not pawns, but people, bleeding on the board.
(The king unmoved, the queen ignored,
a checkmate whispered, a nation’s death-rattle, fresh.)
Fort Knox. Gold. A conspiracy’s gleam,
a hunger for a truth that’s buried deep.
(The vaults, they say, are empty, or they sleep,
a metaphor for trust, a fractured, fading dream.)
Adams. Corruption. A judge’s gavel, poised.
(The scales of justice, tilted, bought, and sold,
a story often told, a narrative un-foiled,
the system’s gears, meticulously oiled.)
IVF. Executive order. Life’s equation,
cost-reduced, a market for the womb.
(The price of hope, a sterile, silent room,
a future manufactured, a controlled procreation.)
COVID tests. Free. (Reversed.) A lifeline, thin,
a government’s caprice, a public’s need.
(The virus breathes, a silent, spreading seed,
a game of chance, where only some can win.)
Workforce slashed. Rocket scientists, dismissed.
(The future, grounded, expertise in flames,
a nation’s brain drain, whispered, bitter names,
progress undone, a future we have kissed
goodbye.)
Bolsonaro. Coup. A plot unearthed,
a fragile democracy, a power grab denied.
(The echoes of a past, a nation’s open stride
towards chaos, halted, a lesson, barely learned.)
Columbine. Forgiveness. A soul’s release.
(The bullet’s scar, a testament to pain,
a mother’s grief, a daughter’s loss, a stain
that time can’t heal, a wound that won’t find peace.)
Tariffs. 25%. A wall of trade,
a global fracture, an economic war.
(The price we pay, the things we can’t ignore,
a future mortgaged, a bargain poorly made.)
The syntax shatters. The headlines bleed.
The truth, a casualty, buried in the noise.
We are the fractured. We are the broken toys.
We are the silence. We are the un-met need.
*****
t r a n s i t i o n a l
s t a t e s
where g o v e r n m e n t
dissolves into
∞ rumor
A$AP walks free
Trump rewrites borders
Musk questions gold
power ⇄ narrative
bleeding through
thin membrane of
“truth”
headlines ∭spiral∭
becoming
memory
before
ink
dries
Brazil charges ghosts
Ukraine trembles
Columbine survivor
fades
all moments
≈ simultaneous
yet
never
touching
*****
Gavel cracks like thunder in a neon courtroom,
A$AP walks free, bullet shadows dissolve—
Echoes of heat, of metal, of maybe,
but the jury sculpts innocence from air.
Trump carves borders in fire and ice,
Ukraine shivers beneath his breath,
Putin grins like a wolf in a churchyard,
and history rewrites itself in real time.
Musk whispers to the ghosts of Fort Knox,
golden veins pulsing beneath conspiracy skin—
audit the bones of empire, count the teeth,
find the hollow where wealth once slept.
Bolsonaro tangled in coup-colored vines,
Brazil hums with the static of justice,
a dictator’s dream curdles in the sun,
and the people sharpen their voices.
Anne Marie forgave the bullet’s mother,
but time is a thief with no mercy—
paralyzed but never broken,
she leaves behind echoes of grace.
Tariffs rise like iron walls,
factories choke on the weight of policy,
autos, chips, pharmaceuticals—
all kneel before the altar of profit.
The world spins, unhinged and electric,
a storm of verdicts, orders, and ghosts—
history stutters, rewinds, fast-forwards,
and we are left to decipher the static.
*****
February 16, 2025: A Vivisection
Floodwaters rise. / A mother and child, erased. / (Munich. Car. Weaponized velocity.)
The algorithm grinds. / Trump, Napoleon reborn, / declares legality a suggestion. / (Save the country, break everything.)
IRS bleeds. / Thousands / probationary / (discarded cogs in the tax-season machine).
Ukraine’s minerals, / a document / offered, a hollow hand. / (Extraction, the new colonialism.)
Musk, a global puppeteer, / strings pulled taut, / far-right resonances. / (Immigration, regulation, the enemies of profit.)
Saturday Night Live, / fifty years of / manufactured laughter. / (A distraction, a balm, a lie.)
California drowns. / Mudslides, / the earth rejecting us. / (The billionaires watch from their bunkers.)
“Under attack,” they say, / the fired, the forgotten. / (Hickman’s fear, a symptom.)
The Oval Office, / a daily broadcast. / Performance. / (The truth, a casualty.)
This is the fracture. / This is the flood. / This is the unraveling. / *****
w a t e r r i s e s
l i k e
p o l i t i c s
f l o o d i n g ∭ b o r d e r s of p o s s i b i l i t y
where t r u t h dissolves into m u d
⟨billionaires⟩
whisper
→ c o n t r o l ←
and t h e c o u n t r y b r e a t h e s h a l f - d r o w n e d
memories
of
r e s i l i e n c e
≈ f l o w i n g ≠
b e y o n d
r e a s o n *****
[poem]
Floodguts rupture asphalt veins,
a drowning lung of interstate breath—
the river does not ask permission.
Trumpet-throated thunderclap,
executive orders scrawled in lightning,
“If it saves the country, it’s not illegal,”
he says, as the waters rise.
Layoffs fall like sleet on tax forms,
probationary ghosts haunt cubicles,
zeros and ones dissolve in the tide.
Munich screams in twisted steel,
a mother, a daughter, a silence too loud—
history rewinds, repeats, erases.
Ukraine signs nothing,
minerals buried beneath scorched earth,
a contract of dust and defiance.
Oval echoes pulse daily,
a voice through static, through screens,
through the flood of memory.
Musk rewires the atmosphere,
satellites whisper in far-right tongues,
algorithms march in lockstep.
Mudslides bury California dreams,
billionaires carve futures from the wreckage,
fired workers howl into the void.
And still—Saturday Night Live turns fifty,
laughter gasps for air between the waves.
[/poem]
*****
(Gulf of Mexico / Gulf of Forgetting)
The bourbon, blessed, a holy / unholy water. Kentucky slick, sliding down throats that swallow press passes, whole.
(Air Force One, grounded. A bird
clipped, mid-sentence.)
D.O.G.E. – a bark, a bite, a digital leash. Three men, shirts stretched taut over manufactured conviction, demand
(what? Transparency? Or just
another locked door?)
Hegseth, in Europe, a blunt instrument hammering nails into a coffin already overflowing. Alliances,
(fractured, like bone china
dropped from a great height.)
Adams, off the hook. A city exhales, a cloud of something foul, something unaccounted for. The scales, unbalanced.
(Justice, blindfolded,
stumbling in the dark.)
Dekel-Chen. Released. A word, a cage unlatched. But the echo – a phantom limb, twitching.
(October 7th, a date
branded on the skin of the world.)
Six thousand agents. Shift. From chasing shadows to rounding up the living. The border, a razor wire
(cutting through flesh, through families,
through the illusion of sanctuary.)
Mass layoffs. Anger, a wildfire consuming the dry tinder of federal service. Shrink. The word,
(a tourniquet, choking the flow
of something vital.)
Musk, a spider at the center of a web spun from influence, from access, from the quiet hum
(of power, unchecked,
unquestioned, *un-*. )
The news, a shattered mirror. Reflecting fragments. This is the fractured whole. *****
Hostage Syntax: A Quantum Dissolution
fragments of ceasefire scatter like bureaucratic dust hanging between nation-states
Eric Adams’ charges collapse probability waves of corruption dissolving into white noise
federal workers: layered bodies trembling at the edge of systemic rupture each pink slip a quantum entanglement
Musk’s influence: viral algorithm consuming governmental membrane white house neurons flickering
bourbon blessed by papal hands transmuting liquid into sacred currency charity as linguistic alchemy
deportation as verb DHS agents: human sorting machines geography becomes weaponized grammar
three men in DOGE shirts demanding files like digital shamans San Francisco’s bureaucratic skin peeling back to reveal impossible transparencies
we are all hostages of narrative of power of language *****
Hostage breath, exhaled in ceasefire’s brittle hands,
chains unshackled, yet shadows still cling—
a name whispered through bullet-riddled air,
Sagui, Sagui, syllables stitched in grief.
Corruption melts like ice in the Hudson,
Adams walks free, justice a marionette,
strings pulled by unseen hands,
the gavel a ghost in a courtroom of silence.
Federal workers drown in pink slip tides,
anger, chaos, confusion—
a trinity of despair marching through cubicles,
the hum of fluorescent lights now a dirge.
Musk, a comet crashing through bureaucracy,
White House walls tremble at his orbit,
gravity bends to his will—
who commands the stars when the sky is for sale?
Bourbon baptized by papal ink,
Kentucky’s amber gospel poured for charity,
a sip of salvation in a world on fire,
the Pope’s signature a benediction of burn.
Hegseth stomps through Europe’s fragile halls,
Trump’s nod a crown of thorns,
allies recoil, diplomacy fractures—
a handshake turned to a fist.
The Gulf of Mexico swallows press credentials,
Air Force One lifts off without witness,
words erased before they are spoken,
truth exiled to the tarmac.
Cabinet doors swing open to unorthodox ghosts,
power assembled like mismatched puzzle pieces,
the picture unclear but the grip firm—
history rewritten in real time.
DHS pivots, eyes locked on deportation’s cold calculus,
6,000 agents shift their aim—
bullets no longer chase traffickers,
but those who dared to dream.
DOGE shirts at City Hall, absurdity made flesh,
files demanded in meme-laced tongues,
San Francisco blinks in disbelief—
reality now a punchline with no laughter.
The world spins reckless, untethered,
newsprint ink bleeding into prophecy—
who writes the ending when the pages burn?
*****
(2025)
Fracture.
Adams walks. / Prosecutors fall. Musk (D.O.G.E.) sniffs Treasury’s marrow. Vance, a ventriloquist dummy, sings Zelenskyy a song of surrender.
(White space, a nation holding its breath.)
Trump, a scalpel carving flesh from bone: schools, science, truth. Layoffs bloom like nuclear winter roses. California drowns in mud, a firefighter becomes flotsam.
Philadelphia screams. / Eagles. / Victory. (A distraction, a glittering shard.)
Widows receive flowers. / A florist’s driveway, a temporary balm on the gaping wound.
The government spends. / The government takes. The poll numbers lie. / The people know.
We are all drowning in different ways.
This is not a poem. This is a vivisection. *****
Bureaucratic Fractures: A Quantum Governance Elegy
syntax of power collapses / prosecutors resign fragments of justice scattered like municipal dreams
TRUMP-wave propagating through institutional membrane MUSK-vectors disrupting treasury data streams bleeding potential
Vance exports MAGA-frequency to Munich’s cold geometric heart anti-centrist resonance trembling diplomatic membranes
Eric Adams’ case—a quantum entanglement charges dissolving between legal probability and political uncertainty
nuclear weapons pause their breath vaccine mandates evaporate federal funding—a liquid dream flowing through administrative cracks
Los Angeles weeps muddy tears firefighter swept into oceanic void while Eagles parade celebrates impossible victory
power is not a structure but a fluid constantly deconstructing itself *****
Steel gavels shatter in backroom silence,
resignations fall like brittle leaves—
Adams walks free, the ink still wet,
justice a marionette with severed strings.
Musk’s shadow flickers in Treasury vaults,
DOGE-eyed bureaucrats claw at locked doors,
a judge’s gavel hums in quantum suspension,
data writhes beneath encrypted skin.
Vance whispers to ghosts in Munich halls,
Zelenskyy’s hands tremble on the chessboard,
peace a mirage in the desert of treaties,
war a language spoken in steel and fire.
Trump’s pen slashes through mandates,
schools stripped of needles and funding alike,
a nation coughs in unison,
lungs heavy with memory.
Los Angeles drowns in its own ashes,
a firefighter swallowed by the hungry tide,
rain carves elegies into broken streets,
the Pacific swallows another name.
Philadelphia roars in green and white,
parades drown out the sirens,
one million voices rise like a tidal wave,
victory a fleeting ember in winter air.
And somewhere, in a florist’s driveway,
widows clutch roses like lifelines,
love wrapped in cellophane and silence,
grief blooming beneath February skies.
*****