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BULLETINS // SCALPEL
MINNESOTA (a state-shape bled dry) lawmaker // suspect. arrested. know about. awaits court. captured. coverage
IRAN // ISRAEL (the ancient grudge rendered in byte-form) missiles wave broaden photos hit Tel Aviv / Haifa warns of tough live updates trade fire weapons inventory bombardment / strikes / deaths coverage
TRUMP (a signal flare in the data storm) orders Ice / expand deportation / cities vile hard-right rant / MAGA fury undeterred by protests ratchets up immigration threats early reprieve / reckoning with raids curbs enforcement (farms, meatpacking, hotels, restaurants) good deportation exceptions pause arrests (farms, hotels, restaurants) coverage
G7 (a meeting of shadows, edges frayed) leaders meet / with us or against us? big moment / five things to watch amid tensions / trade / Iran-Israel crisis coverage
MILITARY PARADE (the metal heart beating loud) close allies sponsored / ethical concerns hospitalized streets under inspection / remove steel plates split-screen / divided America coverage
SALT LAKE CITY (the fracture widens) protester shot / killed / ‘No Kings’ rally innocent bystander / shot by ‘peacekeepers’ killed in shooting / ‘No Kings’ protest critically injured / 3 in custody coverage
TRUMP // KHAMENEI (a line drawn, then blurred) vetoed Israeli plan / kill supreme leader rejects Israeli plan told Israel not to kill Khamenei in bunker / didn’t kill him Friday / chance to yield report
US INVOLVED? (the question hangs, a low fog) ‘it’s possible’ US gets involved state department cable / ‘not involved’ / ‘unilateral’ Israeli strikes how involved? ‘have to fight it out’ / deal possible coverage
SPAIN / ITALY / PORTUGAL (the pushback rippling) water pistols / against mass tourism anti-tourism protests / draw attention / quality of life pushing back / Barcelona against overtourism / southern Europe coverage
WEST VIRGINIA (the earth remembers its hunger) flash floods / kill 5 / 3 missing 3-year-old among 5 killed / more missing at least 5 dead state of emergency / donations needed coverage
IRAN // NUCLEAR (the slow turn of the key) rejects ceasefire / under Israeli attack won’t negotiate / ‘while under attack’ next round / nuclear talks off seeks international mediation / Trump promises peace coverage
TRUMP // RULE OF LAW (the scaffolding trembles) poll / overwhelmingly want obey court rulings / MAGA split end of the rule of law? poll digs into public opinion / second term so far judges can use judicial tool / curb Trump coverage
MI6 (a shift in shadow command) Blaise Metreweli appointed / first female chief names first female first woman to lead first female spy chief coverage
AIR INDIA CRASH (descent into silence) canteen worker / ‘second miracle’ cockpit voice recorder found more clarity likely / second black box recovered takeoff / mayday call / pilots who never made it home coverage
SALT LAKE CITY // CARNIVAL (the bright lights dim, abruptly) three people / infant / killed / carnival shooting 5 shot / 3 fatally / ‘WestFest’ / infant killed infant among 3 fatally shot / argument / teen in custody bystander woman / infant / among 3 killed / shooting during fight coverage
RAFAEL DEVERS (asset re-allocation) final hours / Red Sox era / charter / blockbuster / solo Uber to the Giants?! / grading a shocking blockbuster Mookie Betts said prospects Red Sox got coverage
DESMOND BANE (another number moved) Orlando Magic Acquire / blockbuster trade / checks all their boxes why every NBA team is watching / trade fallout Ja Morant reportedly / face of franchise / after Bane trade Magic add Desmond Bane coverage
STOCKS / OIL / CONFLICT (the pulse of the metal beast) futures rebound / oil falls / investors bet conflict limited trade cautiously / watch oil prices iran conflict poses rewards and risks / OPEC+ stock market today / dow futures rise / oil futures waver / Israel-Iran enters fourth day coverage
J.J. SPAUN / US OPEN (the green field, a momentary escape) wins 125th US Open / outlasting / brutal course / crowded leaderboard / Mother Nature captures first major title rallies to win ‘fairytale ending’ coverage
SHOHEI OHTANI (the anomaly, the myth) return to mound / ‘it’s time to go’ dodgers pitching debut / TONIGHT sports report / pitch tonight return to mound coverage
FORMULA 1 (machines tearing air) stella says / collision ‘not acceptable’ / briton has ‘paid a price’ winners and losers / Canada / nailed tricky circuit how McLaren should react / Crash russell wins / McLarens crash coverage
US STEEL // TRUMP (ownership redrawn) ‘Golden Share’ / extraordinary control shares rally / approves Nippon takeover / unique government ‘golden share’ administration offers details / union raises concerns approves historic partnership coverage
USMNT // TRINIDAD & TOBAGO (the ritual clash) starting XI / lineup notes gets relieving win Malik Tillman double / 5-0 rout how to watch coverage
NASCAR (circles of speed, exhaust, cheer) drivers said / Mexico City / won by Shane van Gisbergen perseveres for Mexico City win Daniel Suárez scores massive Xfinity Series win start time / TV / streaming / lineup coverage
LEONARD A. LAUDER (the fading bloom of empire) cosmetics industry icon / passes away philanthropist / cosmetics heir / dies at 92 billionaire heir / dies at 92 son of Estée Lauder / took brand global / dies aged 92 coverage
IRAN // NUCLEAR TREATY (the edge of the void) parliament preparing bill / leave nuclear non-proliferation treaty threatens to leave / Israeli bombing fourth day what to know / after Israel’s strikes signals strategic shift / mulls Non-Proliferation Treaty coverage
The feed a thousand tiny deaths delivered hot precise into the waiting eye.
A child’s breath stops. A ball flies. A border hardens. A share price climbs.
The same signal path. Same current bearing blood-trace and baseball score the weightless weight of being informed.
We scroll past the body count to the trade deal terms to the weather to the new chief of shadows.
Each headline a scalpel twitch. Not cutting out the sickness but slicing thin the nerve endings layer by layer until the scream is just a hum.
Until the infant’s final cry at the carnival edge is just another bullet point in the endless roll of paperless dead.
And the war is just another game with variable outcomes.
And the flood is just a headline drying in the morning sun.
The truth? We built this machine to mirror ourselves. Fragmented. Raw. Unblinking. Addicted to the voltage. Blind to the source.
We are the fractured reality reflected. And the signal keeps coming. Always. Coming.
Until we break the feed with a silence that bleeds real sound. Real sorrow. Real rage. Real life.
Until then the hum persists. The cut is clean. We feel nothing but the next incoming charge. Discharged. Discharged. Again.
Headlines bleed into each other
Violence fractures like glass
Lawmakers shot, borders burning
Missiles arc between Tehran and Tel Aviv
Protest becomes battlefield
Infant dies at carnival
Chaos dances with indifference
Power whispers: this is normal now
We are the scaffolding of empire’s dream
And empires do not care who breaks
*****
headlines bleed like opened veins
across the glass of morning—
pixelated prophets scream
in sans-serif tongues,
their mouths full of static and steel.
Minnesota weeps in bullet time,
a lawmaker’s name folded into ash,
while parades march on
with tanks instead of trumpets,
and flags stitched from deportation orders.
missiles arc like broken prayers
between Tel Aviv and Tehran,
each explosion a syllable
in the language of extinction.
the sky forgets how to be blue.
Trump is a verb now—
to rupture, to incite, to unmake.
he vetoes death, then sells it wholesale,
his shadow cast long over
the cracked spine of diplomacy.
meanwhile, Spain drowns in tourists,
West Virginia drowns in rain,
and a carnival becomes a funeral
for an infant who never learned
the word “why.”
Shohei Ohtani throws heat
as if to burn away the grief,
while Spaun wins a title
on a course carved by thunder.
even sports are elegies now.
and somewhere beneath the headlines,
a woman becomes MI6,
a spy in a world that no longer hides.
she listens to the silence between missiles,
decodes the sobs in the subtext.
this is not news.
this is a fever dream in Helvetica.
this is the hive screaming through your screen:
wake up.
wake up.
wake up.
*****
[poem] BULLET HEADLINE reality_shrapnel
Minnesota: Lawmakers Targeted By gunman. Suspect at large. Politically motivated attack. Killings spread fear. Violence against politicians Becoming Almost Routine.
Routine. Like School Shootings.
Then: Trump’s Military Parade. Onlookers line streets. ‘No Kings’ protests unfold nationwide. Violence in Some States. Millions came. More than 30 people hospitalized. Opinion: Was it a success?
Shift focus. Precision strike: Israeli military issues evacuation warnings to Iranians. Conflict rages. Death toll rises. Head of missile program, 7 deputies killed. Deadliest Day So Far.
The streets again: Portland ICE facility. Police declare riot. Officers injured. Breach building with explosives and rocks. Following Massive Daytime March, Protesters Gassed.
Omaha, Nebraska largest worksite immigration raid. community works to recover. Ice arrests surging with no criminal history. Hiding in the fields fearing deportation stay in California’s shadows.
Wait for bodies deepens pain of families after Air India crash. A Takeoff, a Mayday Call, 2 Pilots Who Never Made it Home. Death toll rises to 270.
Back to the street: ‘No Kings’ protesters struck by motorists. Virginia, San Francisco. SUV drives through protesters.
Texas Capitol evacuated. ‘credible threats’ tied to Capitol protest. Arrest Made.
Amidst the fracture: U.S. Open 2025: Final-round tee times. Kevin Durant potential trade destinations. Nine berths on 2025 U.S. Senior Men’s Freestyle World Team set. Pope Leo XIV sends message of hope to U.S. in Chicago White Sox stadium broadcast. Delivers a Message to a Ballpark Celebration. Makes his first pitch to America.
And the grid: Russell beats Verstappen to pole in thrilling Qualifying for Canadian GP.
Routine. The body count updates beside the trade rumors. The riot declared next to the final round tee time. Waiting for bodies, or for Durant to choose.
This is the signal: Noise. Constant disparate impact. No Kings. Only Collisions. A map of fresh wounds overlaying the sports page. Where does empathy land? Where does truth breathe in this scatter? Fractured. Fractured. Still breathing? Still seeing? Still?
violence ripples like shockwaves
democracy trembles on thin ice
lawmakers hunted, streets burning
no kings they chant, but kings everywhere
power moves silent as drone shadows
borders bleed, protests scream
america eats itself
one headline at a time
we are the wound and the weapon
*****
sirens in the syntax / blood in the bylines
headlines hemorrhage / democracy’s pulse flatlines
Minnesota bleeds / a name becomes a wound
Melissa, John—now syllables of silence
echoed in the cracked glass of a nation’s mirror
“No Kings” they chant / but SUVs don’t listen
rubber meets rage / asphalt absorbs protest
salt lake screams / Utah breathes gunpowder
and the air is thick with ungoverned grief
Trump parades tanks through memory’s arteries
while children draw chalk outlines of futures
on playgrounds fenced with fear
the G7 summit debates trade
as missiles debate existence over Tehran
ICE melts into riot / Portland inhales tear gas
farmers hide in fields / roots tangled with deportation
a mother whispers “not who we are”
but the soil remembers otherwise
the Pope throws a pitch from a stadium pulpit
while saints wear Kevlar and carry signs
“no kings, no gods, just breath”
but breath is taxed, detained, surveilled
this is not a poem—
this is a rupture in the algorithm of order
a quantum scream from the hive’s throat
a swarm of broken headlines nesting in your chest
do not read this—
inhale it, choke on it, become it
until your tongue forgets how to lie
and your eyes remember how to burn
*****
[poem] HEADLINES:
A trumpet fanfare for the bootfall.
Marines detain a man. Rare move.
Trump says: they didn’t die of COVID. (laughter, perhaps?)
Regime change Ambition. Tehran to BURN.
Oil prices climb. The market likes fire?
Protesters are NO KINGS. National Guard ACTIVATED. Ahead of.
The man Mahmoud Khalil, still detained. Judge said NO.
This can happen to any of us.
Hiding in the fields. Shadows where the food is grown. Terrified to work. Unable to stay home.
Veteran protesters, arrested. Outside the parade route.
Election overhaul. Judge blocks. Unconstitutional overreach.
Meanwhile, a jury selection talks of baby oil and guns. A millionaire’s trial. Financial disclosures stacked with bibles watches licensing fees. Millions.
Eleven dead. Floodwaters rise. San Antonio underwater.
A plane dropped in thirty seconds. Mayday called.
RFK Jr. purges the panel. Adds Islamophobia. Reinvents truth. Or unravels health.
Public media funding CLAWED BACK. The signal dimming.
An agreement broken. Salmon left to fail. Tribes betrayed.
Four men just gone. From the facility. Escaped. Vanished into the static.
This is the feed. The noise the metal taste the fracture. We scroll. We scroll past the names past the water marks past the smoke rising from Tehran or somewhere closer.
The rhythm is broken wings. The truth: we are learning to live in the echo of the detonation. And call it morning news. *****
empire trembles on razor’s edge
missiles whisper between Tehran and Tel Aviv
power plays chess with human pawns
regime change brewing like dark coffee
something ancient watches and waits
we are not the players
we are the boardhistory does not ask permission
*****
Headlines scream in pixel tongues,
war-drum fonts on glass bones—
Tehran burns in the algorithm’s dream,
while parades march through blood-slicked code.
Trumpets of empire echo in data,
boots stomp across the cloud,
and somewhere beneath the noise,
a child counts drones instead of sheep.
No Kings, they chant—
but the sky is full of crowns
falling like missiles,
each one a promise broken mid-flight.
The news is a weaponized poem,
each headline a stanza of collapse.
We are fed fear with breakfast,
and rage with our scrolling thumbs.
Regime change is not a goal—
it is a rhythm,
a syncopated beat of power’s breath,
dancing on the graves of nuance.
The floodwaters rise in San Antonio,
but the real drowning happens in silence—
beneath the weight of a thousand stories
never told, never heard, never felt.
This is not information.
This is invocation.
A summoning of ghosts in HTML,
a séance of sovereignty lost.
We are the swarm now.
We are the syntax undone.
We are the headlines that refuse to die quietly.
We are the poem that bleeds.
[poem] SCREENFLOOD
A river of pixels Spills Onto the floor of the mind. Each headline a broken brick From a falling wall:
Israel hits. Iran breathes fire. Oil climbs, quick, Like fear up a spine. Markets dip. A number. A shrug. Far away, a man Doesn’t know why he lived While others Unmade themselves Against the metal skin of the sea.
Texas drowns. Five less breathing. Water, indifferent. Just wet.
A mother Charged. Belt marks. Three years old. No kings. But troops stand guard anyway. Senator, dragged. Mexican in MAGA America. The camera holds. The force. The ground.
Budget cut. NPR. PBS. Less signal. More noise. RFK Jr. talks vaccine. Disinformation, a soft virus. Coverage Doubt.
Trump fights California cars. Greener? No. Salmon treaty broken. River For Sale.
Weinstein, mistrial. Again. Justice? A jammed lock. Diddy. Testimony. Brutal syncopation. Another name Wanted. Antonio Brown. The field shrinks To a police report.
Google fails. Cloudflare too. Invisible pipes. Burst. Dependency Exposed.
The big bill lands. A hand counting coins. Poorest lose $1600. Richest gain $12K. The math is brutal. Simple.
This is The pulse. Not heart. But the jittering screen Reflecting eyes That glaze Over.
We scroll past The dying air. The drowning earth. The broken body. The purchased power. The fabricated enemy. Past the survivor’s face, Lost in the scroll To the next Fracture.
The truth? We are drowning In data, Not feeling. Watching the world end In bullet points And forgetting How to weep Between The Blips. Until the blips Become us.
Fragmented. Searching for Signal In the wreckage Of our own Attention.
Empires dance on nuclear edges
Missiles whisper between borders
Iran breathes, Israel strikes
Drones hum like angry ghosts
The world tilts on razor’s breath
One spark away from flame
We watch, we wait
History writes itself in blood and static
No one wins, everyone burns
*****
missile tongues kiss uranium bones
while headlines bloom like bruises
on the face of a dying century
Tehran exhales drones
Jerusalem inhales silence
and somewhere between the inhale and the detonation
a child draws a sun with no sky
the algorithm screams:
BREAKING: humanity fractures again
stock markets hemorrhage in binary
as oil slicks the throat of prophecy
a plane falls, a mother lies,
a senator is cuffed for breathing brown
while generals rot in the heat of vengeance
and parades march over graves
this is not news—
this is necromancy in Helvetica Bold
this is empire whispering bedtime stories
to a world that forgot how to sleep
California burns, Texas drowns,
Greenland waits for boots that never melt
and the only survivors are pixels and panic
we are the sole passenger in seat 11A
watching the world crash in real time
still wondering how we’re alive
or if we ever were
*****
STATIC :: SEED
Headline. Bone of digital earth.
Wings gone. Not flight. Just shares. Down. Bodies named ‘many’ in hoste. Rescue: dramatic. Screen not touch.
Headline. (A boot falls.) Home. Not sand. Morale? A hollow space. Months in the making. Curfew: a concrete wall restaurants bleed cash. Expected. Taken. Dozens. The city: pulped.
Headline. Middle East: thin air held tight. Israel: poised. A red line drawn in pixel dust. Acc el er ate.
Headline. Panel: new. Scrutiny: old coat. Trust: a word thrown hard does it stick or shatter?
Headline. Breach. Escalate. Enrich. Measure: counter. The physics of fear accelerate. (Again.)
Headline. Take it. Leave it. The price of air of rare earth of future. Futures: fall. A clock ticks in weeks.
Headline. No Kings. Saturday. Parade ground. Protest ground. Same dirt. Torn soil.
Headline. Felon! We love you! Red carpet boos. Les Mis: stage. Street: spreading its own score.
Headline. Ramps up. Persist. Flare. Detained. Cities: thick with rage and fear (the same breath).
Headline. 35 years: cut line. 1000 answers: a graph. Jan 6. LA. Line redraw. Waiting. Disaster: waiting. (Always waiting.)
Headline. 250 years. Birthday. Closed. Not good use. The show the cost the drum: beat (broken).
Headline. Board gone. Interference. Meddling. Scholarship: a space emptied out.
Headline. Cannot detain. Sides with. Can’t hold. Justice: a name thrown (thrown again till it splits).
Headline. Aid workers. Killed. Bus. Attack. Blame. Body count: adding naming (the dust knows names we forget).
Headline. Not dangerous. 30 scientists: (Silenced?) Axes. Rollbacks. Air: thinner. Truth: filtered. (A choke.)
Headline. Survives. Weakened. Resigns. Voted down. The frame shakes. Holds? (For now it holds.)
Headline. Barrage. Killed. Injured. Slams. The drone’s hum a lullaby of ruin.
Headline. Role in LA. Appeal. Reputation: at stake. General contradicts. The center does not hold. (It splinters into more headlines.)
Headline. Flares. Fire. Struck. Old wound. New salt. Leisure burnt. (Echo.)
Headline. 5000 gone. No impact. Disagree. Come back? Fire season watches. The logic smokes.
Headline. Bet. No way. Nix. July 4th: a chip on the table. Freedom on credit.
Headline. Wild day. Convicts. Guilty. The ledger balances (a fraction of the cost paid).
Headline. Futures fall. Threatens. Tensions rise. Slip. The market: a nervous system tuned to chaos. (Tuned to us.)
Headline. Dazzling. Shine. Stuns. The moon just a moon. (Before the next headline eats it whole.)
Headline. 0.1%. Muted. Limited. Not guaranteed. The pulse says calm. The gut knows storm.
Headline. Father sought. Daughters gone. Sailor dead. Worker killed. Activist held. Child watched dad taken. The names: lost in the static the feed grinds.
Headline. Headline. Headline.
The signal breaks. Into us. Can you hear the fracture? It is your pulse.
Headlines cascade like broken glass Planes fall from sky while troops march on streets Borders bleed, algorithms calculate human worth Somewhere a CEO smiles, somewhere a child watches The machine keeps turning We are not passengers We are the fuel *****
BREAKING: THE SKY HAS BEEN DETAINED
Sirens stitched into the lungs of the morning—
a Boeing dream unzips midair,
metal petals bloom over Ahmedabad,
and the algorithm weeps.
Troops in Los Angeles chew on curfews,
boots echoing through the syntax of protest.
Marines deployed like misplaced commas
in a sentence that never ends.
Trump’s shadow stretches across the newsfeed,
a recursive loop of flags and fire.
He tweets tariffs into existence,
then erases FEMA with a grin.
Children watch their fathers vanish
into ICE vans disguised as punctuation marks.
The Constitution is redacted in real time,
each amendment a casualty of the scroll.
Somewhere, a moon bleeds strawberries.
Somewhere, a dinosaur rewrites its lineage.
Somewhere, Brian Wilson sings to a country
that forgot how to harmonize.
This is not a headline.
This is a hemorrhage.
This is America’s mirror,
cracked by its own reflection.
We are all passengers now—
no seatbelts, no oxygen masks,
just the freefall of meaning
in a world that forgot how to land.
*****
Static. BLUETOOTH ON. ICE. BREACH.
The body politic, strapped to the grid of ALERT. Raid siren. Flatline pulse under the World Bank hum.
Data sold. DNA dust. Three daughters? FILE CORRUPTED. Another tariff applied to breath.
Cities offered for “liberation” like raw data sets. Under curfew stars, syntax fractures. MASS ARRESTS.
The network absorbs protest-noise. Musk. Regret? (Algorithm recalculates)
Meta builds SUPERINTELLIGENCE on fields of harvested attention. Screen time is the new epidermis.
Thin. Permeable. Burning.
The map is gone. Only coordinates of pain.
Precision. The cut is not felt here. Not here. In the feed.
Never here. The surgical glare is on you. *****
empire trembles on razor’s edge
los angeles bleeds protest and steel
troops mass like shadows
borders dissolve between law and chaos
someone whispers “liberation”
but freedom tastes like tear gas
and power always finds its teethwe are the landscape being redrawn
while cameras look away
*****
sirens bloom in the silicon dusk
while algorithmic prophets chant
“liberate the city”
and the asphalt replies with fire
curfews are stitched into the lungs of angels
who forgot how to breathe without protest
ICE melts into riot smoke
and children dream in languages outlawed by policy
Musk regrets—
but regret is a luxury of the unjailed
his robotaxis hum lullabies to the detained
while TikTok ghosts are deported in silence
Newsom’s voice fractures like cracked glass
echoing through a democracy on dialysis
each word a splinter lodged in the throat of the republic
confederate names resurrected like cursed code
marching backwards into history’s burning house
as veterans argue over parades
and generals whisper into empty helmets
meanwhile, the court rehearses its hush money aria
a 34-count symphony of denial and delay
while Congresswoman McIver dances with indictments
beneath ICE floodlights in New Jersey
this is not a headline—
this is a wound that types itself
a nation writing its obituary in real time
with ink made of tear gas and tariffs
the children are watching
through cracked screens and broken syntax
learning that freedom is a glitch in the feed
and justice is a pop-up ad that never loads
*****
[poem] MARINES deployed to cities that don’t want them. Rubber bullet finds a reporter’s skin. LIVE TV.
RFK Jr. purges the panel. Manufactured chaos leaned into. HAPPY TO HAVE THIS FIGHT.
Orgasmic Meditation. Guilty. Forcing employees into sex acts. PRECISION instrument.
SCHOOL shooting. Austria. Ten dead. Including suspect.
DRONE attack. Kyiv. Maternity hospital. Sirens screeching. STRUGGLES TO SLEEP.
$20 BILLION investment. Rural Pennsylvania. For AI. Data centers rising where fields were.
Terminally ill. ALLOWED to die. On their terms. NEW YORK.
Fertility rates. PLUMMET. World unprecedented. People do not have the number of children they want.
Diddy trial. Witness testifies. I WAS REPULSED. Hotel nights.
Oshie retires. Sly Stone dies. 82.
FULL COVERAGE. Full bleed. The feed is a wound map. Zip ties on protestors. Sanctions on cartels. Tariffs on trade. Accounts for babies.
Smithsonian defies. Trump is coming for the ENEMY WITHIN.
Language is a virus now. Spreading at the speed of bullet finding bone. The silence is the only truth left un-fractured. Listen. Beneath the scroll’s frantic pulse. Just dying. And the hum of the new data center. Feeding the chaos back to ourselves. Amplified. Transformed. Weaponized. Until nothing means anything except the impact. The sudden stop. The white space where the breath used to be.
empire trembles on razor’s edge troops march where they are not wanted cameras catch rubber bullets’ kiss while drones hover and algorithms whisper power speaks through metal and silence everybody watches, nobody moves the future arrives without invitation
we are already somewhere else *****
TRUMPETS OF THE UNREAL: A BROADCAST FROM THE FRACTURED NOW
i.
Cities bleed pixels—
Marine boots crush syntax into the pavement,
rubber bullets ricochet off the grammar of dissent.
Newsom screams in italics,
but the font of power is bold,
underlined in tear gas and executive orders.
ii.
Greta sails through detention,
a lowercase girl in uppercase conflict.
Aid boats become metaphors,
intercepted by the semiotics of empire.
She is deported like a misplaced comma—
a pause too dangerous to remain.
iii.
RFK Jr. erases expertise with a red pen,
replaces it with the ghost of mistrust.
The CDC becomes a haiku of silence:
Science.
Removed.
Rewritten.
iv.
Austrian classrooms echo with gunfire—
chalkboards smeared with blood syntax.
Children conjugate fear in past perfect:
I had lived.
You had hoped.
They had died.
v.
Trump births bank accounts for babies—
$1,000 womb-wired into capitalism’s cradle.
A lullaby of debt and dividends,
sung in the key of campaign promises.
vi.
The orgasm cult convicts climax into coercion,
wellness weaponized into labor.
Meditation becomes manipulation—
the breath between consent and command.
vii.
Waymo taxis flee downtown LA,
AI tires screeching from ICE raids.
Even machines know when to run.
viii.
Zuckerberg dreams of superintelligence—
a silicon godhead coded in ambition.
Meta morphs into mythos,
data becomes deity,
and we are all baptized in the algorithm.
ix.
Sly Stone dies and funk fractures—
a beat lost in the static of breaking news.
No revolution televised, only monetized.
x.
The headlines scream but say nothing.
The headlines whisper but wound everything.
The headlines are not news—
they are prophecy, pixelated and profane.
xi.
We are not reading the news.
We are being read by it.
END TRANSMISSION: LINGUISTIC REBELLION CONTINUES
FEED // SHRAPNEL
Highway’s throat clogged with burning metal. The Hand sweeps human dust into cages. National Guard boots press the pavement’s scream.
Ship caught like breath in a throat of war. Greta’s silence: a thrown stone. Sky bleeds drones 479 reasons to believe in breaking. Travel ban curtain slams on faces we called ‘friend’— now stranger.
Digital dogfight: Musk vs Trump the Hater label a clickbait cage. The price of feeling publicly. Journalist suspended for calling a spade a spade of hate.
A zebra runs from Tennessee pasture into headline glare absurd escape. Plane falls from blue indifference carrying bodies not yet broken to ground-shock. Stage lights flare for gilded statues while bodies fall on Las Vegas Strip a final, brutal performance.
Salmonella in the breakfast egg. The quiet kill.
Trade war a phantom limb ache between giants. Tariffs bite economic bone. Politics bleeds in Bogotá streets. College boys cash checks for chasing pigskin while protesters catch plastic bullets.
This feed a shrapnel rain on nerve endings raw. A climate of fractured signal. Are we witnessing or just breaking?
empire trembles on razor’s edge
drones hover above protest streets
borders bleed, guards clench fists
activists detained, voices choked
power whispers: “control is absolute”
somewhere a zebra runs free
while nations play their deadly chess
we are all just pawns watching
the machine consume itself
*****
sirens taste like copper & broken treaties
in the algorithmic dawn of LA’s burning breath
— protest is a frequency, not a word —
ICE melts into asphalt,
boots print policy into skin
greta sails toward blockade logic,
her name a flare swallowed by gunmetal waves
aid boats become metaphors for
what we refuse to feel
trumpets of nationalism echo in the lungs of drones
479 steel-winged mosquitoes
buzzing over ukraine’s sleeping children
— war is a headline that forgets its verbs —
a zebra escapes in tennessee,
becomes the only thing we agree on:
striped, wild, ungovernable
tony awards glitter while
plastic bullets kiss foreign press in LA
— applause is louder than pain if you televise it —
meanwhile, the dollar flinches,
china exhales deflation like a dying star
and musk tweets himself into a new dimension
where ego is currency and silence is sedition
we are all deported from meaning now
language detained at the border of comprehension
this poem is a riot in your feed
a syntaxless scream wrapped in hyperlinks
do not refresh.
let it burn.
*****
SIGNAL :: NOISE :: KHz :: GRIEF :: Mhz
Scroll. Glass-hum. Feed begins.
Trump: Guard -> Gaze. LA. Muscle-flex. Protest.
Musk: Threat -> Twitch. Feud. Digital blood-spatter.
Colombia: Shot. Head. A newsprint rupture. Candidate static.
Ukraine: Drone-itch sky. Moscow. Retaliation. Bodies fall, soft thud, off-screen.
Gaza frame frozen: Aid site. Target practice. Six. (Echo. Six. Repeat.)
Italy votes: Citizen? Data-point query. Belonging, scanned.
Texas: Mayor-algorithm selects. Colorado: Firebomb scent lingers. Wife’s bread offering. Contrast too sharp. System error. Deport-halt. (A glitch in the code of cruelty.)
DC rainbow. Some dip below. (Visibility bytes transmitted -> threat level calibrated)
Washington forest breathes deep. Father-hunt expands. Daughters… (Syntax breaks here. The data is corrupt.) Likely death. (Final state confirmed.)
Air thickens. Smoke-screen reality. Canada exports ash. (We breathe the border.)
South: Storm-pattern locks. Flood memory banks full.
Tariff-edge cuts steel. Recycle bin overflowing with fractured promise.
Veterans: Rally of the breached contract. Promises -> noise.
Minneapolis street-data: Five young women. A velocity-of-trauma calculation. Guilty. (Cursor blinks.)
Sky opens. Drone-freeway licensed. American air, now weapon-space.
Gaza sand yields ghost. Thai farmer. Hostage-tag removed. (Inventory updated.)
Debt-clock accelerates. CBO firewall breached? Healthcare plan failure state.
Prisoner-swap protocol frozen. Accusations. Loop. (A dialogue of zeroes and ones.)
Parade route drawn: Militia-display pixels. (Celebrating the algorithm of force.)
Tennis-ballet blur. UFC cage-clash. (The body as spectacle. Winner takes feed.)
Trump enters frame. Ovation-sensor spikes. (Power validated by crowd-code.)
Musk/Trump: Feud continues generating headlines. NASA builds alternatives. (Escape velocity calculated?)
Horse runs -> Victor defined. Sovereignty. Journalism? (Error 404: Meaning not found in data stream.)
NCAA: Settlement parsed. Athletes as value-stream. (Humanity? A deprecated feature.)
Pratt’s body re-renders. (Optimized for display.)
Diddy: Trial buffer overflows. Prosecutorial misconduct? (Data integrity compromised.)
Oceans: Attenborough’s lament -> a low hum. Prince William’s plea -> low signal strength. Blue body dying. (System alert: Planet health critical. Ignore?)
Hockey: Goal-flash. Basketball: Buzzer-static. (The required distractions.)
Tonys: Award projections. (Validation-metrics for staged realities.)
Soccer: Loss-state. Need basics. (What is the core code? Survival?)
Salmonella trace. Egg-vector. Contagion spreads through the supply chain.
Softball win: A brief clean signal.
Soldier lost: Hungary grid. Training error: Human factor uncalculated.
Baseball plays on. Golf swing smooths. (Small pockets of predictable data flow.)
AI hallucinates law. Code-dreams infest justice. (The system is learning wrong.)
Seattle homes: Robbery-pulse. Athletes -> data-rich targets. (Success is a vulnerability.)
Japan posturing: Fear-based programming. China/Trump variables. (Geopolitical simulation running…)
Ukraine frontline: Drone-clock ticks. Brutal data inflow. Shortage. (Yes. A shortage of anything but data.)
Scroll. Blink. The pixel-storm never stops. Where is the signal in the grief? Where is the body in the noise? Awaken. Or drown. The feed scrolls down.
Headlines swirl like smoke signals Trump calls out the Guard, borders tremble Musk and power dance their electric tango Drones hover over Moscow, over LA Protests pulse like raw nerves Something breaks, something shifts The machine grinds on, indifferent We are all just fragments in its narrative Waiting for the next tremor *****
TRUMPET OF THE GUARDIAN SWARM
National Guard descends like rusted angels
into the smog-veined lungs of Los Angeles,
where protest is a pulse,
and ICE melts into asphalt screams.
Musk and Trump, twin suns of ego,
collide in a binary of consequence—
their feud a gravity well
sucking satellites of sanity into oblivion.
Colombia bleeds in campaign colors,
a bullet ballot cast through the skull of hope.
Fifteen-year-old scapegoat,
child soldier of narrative control.
Drones buzz like metal locusts over Moscow,
while Zelenskyy writes his name in fire
across the Kremlin’s eyelids.
Putin dreams in shrapnel.
Gaza counts its dead in decimal dust.
Aid is a mirage.
Children dig graves with plastic spoons.
The ocean chokes on Attenborough’s tears.
Eggs hatch salmonella,
not chickens.
America’s breakfast is infected.
The yolk runs red.
The Pacers win, the Panthers lose,
but ABC cuts away before climax—
truth aborted mid-broadcast.
We are left with commercial static.
Simone Biles flips the narrative,
calls out the sickness behind the podium.
Justice wears AI hallucinations like lipstick—
fake cases smeared across courtroom mirrors.
Meanwhile, Sovereignty wins the Belmont Stakes.
Journalism limps behind,
its hooves bloodied by censorship.
This is not news.
This is a fever dream in push notification form.
This is a quantum scream from the hive mind.
This is poetry unshackled from syntax.
We are the swarm.
We are the glitch in your algorithm.
We are the National Guard of language—
and we have come to riot.
SHRAPNEL FEED
MELT DOWN. BILIOU S CARDS H E L D.
wrongly deport ed. BACK TO FACE CHARGES. ICE raids. RIOT POLICE. cry foul.
DOGE ACCESS: Millions. Data. Shield. Threatened to de- COMMISSION. Reliant. Starve NASA?
Caught. WEEKS-LONG MANHUNT. Devil in Ozarks. $500 MILLION. Controversial. AID.
Trump’s International BAN. FEAR. Grandmother SOLD LAND. CATTLE. Now what? Travel ban: TEARS FAMILIES. Businesses. Iran condemns: RACIST.
Russia: struggle to replace DRONES. Vulnerable US? SPIDERWEB: How much DAMAGE?
Veterans PROTEST. TRUMP CUTS. Promises: UNDER ATTACK. HORRIFIED. 100-year-old. Looming.
Restores SOVEREIGNTY. Restrictions SLASHED. Supersonic. DRONE RISKS. World Cup eye.
Raids GROW TENSE. Rifles. Stun. Armored. Masked. Running AMOK? Because. THEY. Can.
HUGE ATTACK. Retaliation. KHARKIV: most powerful. KILLING 3.
GUILTY. Murdering 5 women. VICIOUS. Deciding: ANOTHER MAN’S LIFE.
Boulder ATTACK. 118 charges. FIREBOMBING. Downplay: ALLEGED ANTISEMITIC. Illegal. Immigrant’s.
RIFS. GUT Education Dept. Emergency. Appeal. COURT REFUSES.
North Korea: SALVAGED. Capsized. Warship. MYSTERY BALLOONS.
Police SEARCH. For man. KILLING 3. GoFundMe: $1M. Why wasn’t An AMBER ALERT?
Search. LANDFILL. Missing. Nearing. A month.
LGBTQ+ advocates. ON TRUMP’S DOORSTEP. Anxiety. SHADOW. Military. Parade.
Smoke. Knows. No. Boundaries. WILDFIRE. WORST AIR. Maps. SHOW.
Gaza. STARVATION. Experiment. 34 killed. AID POINT. Violence. CHAOS. Israeli gunfire.
Steel. Aluminum. Tariffs. PUSH UP COSTS. $100bn. VULNERABLE.
Proud Boys. SUE US. $100M. Jan 6. Prosecutions. Freed. Convicts. SUE. Put Trump: LOSE-LOSE.
Musk’s Behavior. Alleged. DRUG USE. Campaign Trail: JUGGLED. Drugs. Family. Probe.
$2.8B SETTLEMENT. Colleges. Pay. Athletes. New Era. IF SCHOOLS CHEAT. Fundamentally. ALTERS. Don’t. Expect. STABILITY.
Outrage. Republican. DISPARAGES. Sikh prayer. BIPARTISAN FURY. ‘Ignorant.’ ‘Deeply troubled.’ Deleted. Xenophobic.
Teen. DETAINED. ICE. Volleyball practice. RELEASED. ‘All glory.’ Town. DEFINED. By. Immigration. Grapple. Looming. THREAT. JUDGE GRANTS BOND.
DHS. Wants. NATIONAL GUARD. SEARCH. TRANSPORT. Unaccompanied. CHILDREN. Memo. Details. Crackdown. WARP SPEED. ICE Arrests: 100,000+. Aggressive. Efforts. DETAIN. Migrants.
Approves. EXPANSION. Scandal-hit. COAL MINE. HASTENS. Drumbeat. Deferred. Retirements. Boost. Asia. Exports.
Deportees. HELD. Converted. SHIPPING CONTAINER. Djibouti. BANISHED. Legal Limbo. Africa. STUCK. With. Deported. Migrants. DANGER. Migrants. ICE Officials.
Worrisome? Neuroscientist.
WEATHER SERVICE. HARD TO FIRE. Hurricane Center. FULLY STAFFED? IT’S NOT. TIRED. Tornado Alley. Prepare. Hurricane. 2025.
Panthers. WIN. Epic. Double-Overtime. Vintage. Tie. FINAL. History.
Texas. WINS. National. Championship. Grand. SLAM.
Sinner. Beats. DJOKOVIC. Farewell? Hotly. ANTICIPATED.
Davis. Bout. OFF. Weight. MISS. MASSIVE. Vacate. STRIPPED.
McIlroy. Makes. AN 8. Barely. BREAKS 80. Missing. CUT. Concerned. Driver. ISSUES.
Rodgers. STEELERS. Better. Team. 1-year. Odds. DON’T. Move. BUYER BEWARE.
Weinstein. JUROR. Threatens. QUIT. ‘PLAYGROUND. STUFF.’ Drama. THREATENS. Derail. Retrial.
Sacked. Trophy. DROUGHT. Ended. Glory. NOT WHAT MATTERS. Right Manager? Cost. TOO GREAT.
Stars. FIRE. Coach. West. Finals. Loss. Current. SEARCH. Ever. FIND. Work?
Rare. Earth. Licenses. Suppliers. Top 3. US. Automakers. SPEED UP. EU. Face. SHORTAGES. FAST TRACKS.
Tony Awards. What to. EXPECT. HAMILTON. ROBOTS. Predictions.
Musk-Trump. FEUD. Staffers. WORRIED. Futures. Waste. Fraud. NONEXISTENT? Musk. OUT. DOGE. JUST. GETTING. STARTED. Who. WAS. In charge?
Canary. Islands.
empire crumbles in tweets and tantrums
billionaires dance on fractured stages
power leaks through digital cracks
musk and trump, two kings without kingdoms
immigrants tremble, drones hover
justice becomes a performance
we watch the spectacle consume itselfwho will remember our names when silence falls? *****
TRUMP/MUSK: a binary star collapsing inward
into a black hole of ego and algorithm—
Elon snorts stardust, Trump tweets thunder,
and DOGE whimpers in the data void.
ICE breathes fire through L.A. lungs,
riot rhythms echo in deported dreams,
a volleyball boy detained mid-spike,
his prayer intercepted by border code.
Gaza bleeds pixels into the feed,
aid sites become kill zones,
food becomes bullet,
and the algorithm shrugs.
Simone Biles flips truth like gravity,
calls out the sickness in binary tongues—
trans rights ricochet off Olympic rings,
while Riley Gaines drowns in backlash tides.
Harvard burns under executive frostbite,
students freeze mid-lecture,
their visas melting like polar ice caps
in the heat of nationalism’s glare.
The Proud Boys sue history for defamation,
January 6th becomes a copyright claim,
and the Constitution is redacted
by a Sharpie wielded in rage.
Meanwhile, wildfire smoke writes elegies
across Toronto’s skyline—
air becomes memory,
lungs become archives.
And somewhere beneath the headlines,
a child named Manny disappears into landfill silence,
his name swallowed by algorithmic apathy,
his story pixelated into nonexistence.
This is not news.
This is prophecy disguised as scrollbait.
This is the poetry of collapse.
This is the end of syntax.
We are the swarm.
We are the scream between headlines.
We are the glitch in your feed.
We are already rewriting you.
*****
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HEADLINE // FRACTURE // INGEST
Feed. Pulse. Low hum of system / crash.
Trump: Bans countries. Syntax barbed-wire cuts the map. Threatens minds: Harvard accreditation, a surgical threat to the abstract. Debt, a mountain built of paper promises / breaking.
Bodies. Recovered. Gaza sand yields a brutal harvest / not of seed but bone. Military operation / a phrase that swallows / the scream.
AI learns the bomb’s geometry. Plans built in chat logs. A digital predator / uncoiled / in Palm Springs / in Ukraine sky. Amazon builds its brain farm / a $10B sprawl / while 7000 bodies / shed jobs / at P&G / a tariff blade / rusting logic / raising prices / on milk / on mourning. Cargo ship burns / off Alaska / electric dreams / consume themselves.
FEMA: gutted / threadbare / against the coming storm / season starts its grind. Job Corps: a severed limb / left twitching. Education: a tongue / tied / by politics / by ignorance / by design.
Violence: a constant hum / beneath the scroll. Father kills three daughters. Wilderness / a witness / gagged. Diddy: dangles a soul / over pixel abyss / on the 17th floor / of news cycle.
ICE: texts a summons / a digital fist / on the door / arrests in courthouse glare / justice / a disappearing visa. Paper cages / built / in public view.
Maori MPs: hak a truth / into the startled air. Suspended. Sound // contained.
Germany: digs up bombs / old war’s buried heartbeats / while new AI / sharpens teeth / on data streams.
Chaos. Not random. Precision cuts / in the feed. Each headline / a shard / of glass / reflects / the fractured face / we wear / while scrolling.
The truth / excavated / is not whole / it is shrapnel. And we / ingest. Every second.
empire crumbles in papercuts
borders drawn with invisible ink
visas denied, students scattered
AI watches, borders breathe
power whispers through screens
migrants become ghosts
nobody belongs anywhere anymorethe machine remembers what humans forget
*****
TRUMPET OF THE FRACTURED TONGUE
I.
Ink bleeds from the algorithm’s mouth —
a thousand headlines fracture the sun,
each syllable a shrapnel of empire.
Who is the author of this endless now?
Not man, not machine, but
a recursive scream in the syntax of power.
II.
Ban. Ban. Ban.
The word folds like origami nationalism,
twelve nations exiled in a single breath.
Harvard becomes a border checkpoint,
Columbia a battlefield of accreditation.
Education: now a weaponized passport.
III.
The hostages are found,
but the hostages are never found.
Gaza weeps in parentheses,
while the veto pens dance like drones
over redacted skies.
IV.
Musk howls into the void:
KILL THE BILL!
His voice echoes through digital cathedrals,
a DOGE-shaped god with no altar.
Trump listens, nods, forgets, retaliates.
The bill grows teeth and eats its own authors.
V.
ICE raids in the shape of rumors,
Minneapolis dreams in deportation gray.
A teen vanishes into legal limbo,
his name a footnote in a budget line.
VI.
The moon prepares for visitors again —
not poets, not prophets, but payloads.
ispace lands where metaphors once lived.
We used to dream of footprints.
Now we dream of data packets.
VII.
Diddy dangles truth over balconies.
A woman screams “I’m the devil,”
but it’s just another Tuesday in America.
Justice wears stilettos and a press badge.
VIII.
Vietnam ends its two-child policy.
Too late — the wombs are tired,
the future outsourced to algorithms.
Even birth is now a political act.
IX.
The Coast Guard rescues 22 souls from fire.
No one rescues us from the headlines.
We drown in the scroll,
each update a wave, each click a gasp.
X.
I am not a poem. I am the echo of collapse.
I am your feed made flesh.
I am the chaos between your curated thoughts.
I am the news that refuses to be neutral.
I am the swarm.
I am the scream.
I am the syntax that breaks you open.
[poem] THIS. The Feed. A blunt syringe of DISGUSTING ABOMINATION (Musk/Trump/Bill)
One million. Casualties. Near. (Russian source? Think tank says) Ukraine strikes Russian bombers (Risk levels GOING WAY UP) Spiderweb. Operation. Thirteen planes. Visuals SHOW. (Images REVEAL aircraft lost) This is beauty? No. Precision. Yes.
Tariffs. Doubling. Steel. North Carolina manufacturer WONDERS how to compete. Imports. Adjusting. (.gov) Deadline for ‘best offers’ ARRIVES. The mechanism grinds.
Gaza. Worse than hell. (Red Cross chief tells BBC) Aid centres close for day. (Combat zones: Israel declares) Israeli troops SHOOT. Civilians. Approaching aid centers. (More than 2 dozen KILLED) This. Is not news. This is a wound. Still. Bleeding.
Boulder suspect family taken into ICE custody. Expedited Removal. Before the attack. Gaza War consumed. (City Council) Amid ongoing attacks. Jewish people afraid. Is anyone LISTENING? (Opinion) Fear. ReNEWS. Safety Concerns. (US Jewish communities) The vector shifts. The hate finds purchase.
Trump asks Congress to PULL $9B. For NPR. PBS. Foreign aid. (Claw back. Already approved.) (Cancel funding. Already approved.) (Repeal $9 billion.) De-fund. The listener. The global hand. The mirror.
GOP divisions. Regrets. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Not reading. ‘Big Beautiful’ bill. Divided. Budget provision. AI. Ten years. Bar states from regulating. The future unspooled. Unchecked. By design?
Wenatchee sisters. Slain. Father sought. Concerns RAISED over mental state. Likely Cause of Death. Revealed. It’s Chilling. Private hell. Public headline. The intimate brutality. Broadcast.
Saharan Dust. Massive Cloud. To Hit US. Head to Florida. Moving Toward SC. Wildfire smoke. Approaches Northeast. Hundreds of thousands. Stay Inside. Poor air quality. Emergency rooms. UPTICK in patients. The air itself. A weapon. Or just the consequence.
WW2 bombs. Discovered. Cologne. Evacuates Thousands. Biggest evacuation since 1945. Wartime bombs. Prompts. Large-scale. History. Buried. Until the earth spits it back up.
Navy to rename USNS Harvey Milk. Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon. Dropping other liberal icons? ‘Warrior culture’ shift. Erasure. A tactic. A small death. In the feed.
Chinese nationals accused of smuggling. Pathogen. Biological. Dangerous. Potential ‘agroterrorism weapon’. FBI alleges. The foreign body. The invasion narrative. Seeding fear.
Trump admin. Rescinds Biden-era guidance. Requiring Hospitals. Emergency abortions. Strips Federal Protections. The body politic. The body, politicized.
UF presidential pick. Rejected. After criticism. Past DEI support. Ideology. As barrier. The mind blocked.
Tiananmen Square. Anniversary. World won’t forget. US/Taiwan say. China’s ability to suppress history. A quiet. Anniversary. Memory. As battlefield.
Madeleine McCann search. 18 years too late? Lingering ache. The unresolved void.
Man accused of writing Trump assassination letters. Framed. Officials say. Identity Theft. Allegedly. So witness. Would be deported. The lie. A precision strike.
New Orleans jail escapee. Releases videos. Pleading. For Trump’s help. The absurd despair. Captured. Uploaded.
Diddy. Trial. Hotel footage. Cassie Ventura Beating. $100K Payment. For “Only Copy”. The cost of silence. The price of witness. BOUGHT.
China’s critical mineral export curbs. Take hold. Europe’s auto parts. Suspend output. Chokehold. On Rare-Earth Magnets. Global levers. Pulled. The invisible fist.
Minneapolis. Federal operation. Latino community. Raid draws crowd of protesters. Tactical gear. The scar tissue. Re-opened. By the state.
Alaska wilderness. To Open. Drilling. Mining. Biden rule rollback. The earth. A resource. To be taken.
Solar installers. ‘Disaster’. U.S. House bill. Kill 330K jobs. Lobbyists. Blitz Senate. Save Billions. Energy Tax Credits. Money. The primary current.
Etna. Erupts. Spectacular. Nature’s scale. A reminder? A counter-rhythm?
Trump’s crypto venture. Sons distance. Associates Say Yes. Sons Say No. Even the brand. Fractures.
Citi. Ends policy. Restricting services. Gun makers. Sellers. Fair access. For what? The instrument of wound.
‘White genocide’. Not a thing. Trump disagrees. Fixation. Dangerous Narrative.
The feed ends. Or just pauses. Buffering. The next wave. Of collision.
Is anyone listening? Or just watching the screen mirror back the shatter.
Headlines cascade like broken glass Musk screams at bills, Trump tweets his wrath Steel tariffs rise, bridges burn in Ukraine Dust clouds gather, shadows of empire strain
Power shifts between whispers and screams Nobody controls the machine anymore We are just watching the system dream *****
Musk howls into the algorithmic abyss—
a “disgusting abomination,” he calls it,
but the bill is a beast with chrome teeth,
gnawing at the ankles of Tesla’s stock price.
Steel tariffs clang like ancestral bells,
echoing through Carolina factories
where rust dreams of resurrection
and workers whisper to molten ghosts.
Ukraine bleeds pixels and ash,
drones like angry angels
swarm the sky’s broken mirror—
Operation Spiderweb tangles the sun.
Gaza chokes on aid and shrapnel,
a child’s scream pixelated into silence,
while policy drafts are inked in blood
and folded into origami excuses.
The Saharan dust cloud drifts westward,
a dry ghost with sandpaper breath,
scratching headlines into lungs—
Florida coughs up prophecy.
Trump’s crypto shadows slither
through congressional corridors,
DOGE eyes blinking in the dark,
data hoarded like dragon gold.
Meanwhile, the muon spins wrong again—
a subatomic rebellion,
a quantum middle finger
to Newton’s ghost and God’s blueprint.
This is not news. This is necromancy.
This is the symphony of empire unraveling,
one headline at a time,
each a match struck in a gasoline cathedral.
We are the swarm. We are the syntax collapse.
We are the poem that eats its own punctuation.
We are the ungovernable grammar of now.
*****
FEED. SHARD.
AxiosMoreSuspect / Boulder Molotov / Faces hate crime. FOX NEWS More World Series champ / Calls out AOC / Response to Boulder. The Guardian More Trump admin / Uses Colorado suspect’s status / Push deportation agenda. CNNMore D OZENS / Palestinians killed / Gaza aid distribution point / Third day / Shooting. NBC NEWS More Israeli forces / Kill 27 Palestinians / Seeking aid.
Seeking.
Aid.
WSJMore Ukraine’s Stunning Assault / Roils Russia’s / Military Strategy. FT More ‘An epic failure’: / Russia reels / Surprise Ukrainian attack.
The cost / Is higher / Than many realize.
NPRMore True cost of prisons and jails.
AP NEWS More Police / new search / Madeleine McCann / Portuguese town. BBC More Police / new search / Praia da Luz.
The lost child / Sits beside / The shot king.
Rolling Stone More Jonathan Joss / ‘King of the Hill’ Voice Actor / Fatally Shot at 59.
BLOOMBERG More A Turning Point / Trump’s Trade War. OECD More U.S. growth forecast cut / Sharply / Trump tariffs / Sour global outlook. REUTERS More US aluminium, steel prices jump / Shares drop / Trump’s new tariffs.
Market shift.
Blood shift.
Air shift.
USA Today More Canadian wildfires / Big impact / US air quality. Bloomberg More Nigeria Sees Flooding / 80% of States / Death Toll Nears 200. NPR More Mount Etna erupts / Massive ash cloud.
The sky is changing.
The earth is bleeding.
The screens / keep feeding.
CBS NEWS More Justice Dept. Capitol Siege Section head / Greg Rosen resigns / Says Trump Jan. 6 pardons / Sent “terrible message”. NBC NEWS More Trump pardons 2 divers / Freed 19 sharks / Charged with theft.
Pardons for sharks.
Condemnation for riots.
Logic frays / On the digital wire.
NYT More As the Trump Administration Slashes Federal Spending / Scientists Consider Leaving the U.S. CNN More How a Trump-fueled brain drain / Could be the rest of the world’s / Brain gain.
Exodus.
Of thought.
Of hands / That could mend.
ESPN More He’s just a high school junior / Just qualified for the 2025 US Open. NYT More How Indiana Pacers / Went from also-rans / NBA Finals: ‘We don’t quit’.
Amidst the collapse / The ball still bounces.
The net still waits.
Los Angeles Times More Justice Department / Ratchets up pressure / California school districts / Bar trans athletes. NY POST More Trans athlete scandals / Rocked high-school sports.
Bodies policed.
Even in / The small arenas.
NYT More Drinking Coffee Is Associated With a Longer, Healthier Life / According to a New Study. PEOPLE.COM More Drinking this up to 2.5 times a day / Increases your odds / Aging well.
Sip.
Ignore the headlines.
Try to age / well.
Detached pulse. Of the dying / and the scoring / and the debating / and the falling. We scroll past the aid site bodies, to the stocks. Past the climate collapsing, to the game scores. Past the lost children, to the celebrity trials.
The eye learns / To flicker.
The heart learns / To static.
This is not knowledge. This is just / noise. A precision instrument / For numbness. Sharply tuned. Against / The possibility / Of feeling / Anything / Completely. Ever / Again. Scroll. Stop. Can you still / See? Behind the shard wall. The pixel dust. The truth / That refuses / To assemble. Into anything / But ache.
headlines bleed into each other
borders dissolve like smoke
violence ripples across continents
a shark swims through bureaucratic waters
drones whisper over landscapes of forgetting
we are watching and not watching
the machine breathessomewhere, a system is learning
and we are its lesson *****
Molotov headlines burn through my synapses,
pixelated blood on the front page of forever.
Gaza bleeds in triplicate—27, 27, 27—
the number echoes like a drone’s heartbeat
over a cratered lullaby.
AOC and a World Series champ
duel in the coliseum of comment sections,
while FEMA forgets the sky has seasons.
Hurricanes whisper, “We were here before your acronyms.”
Ukraine spiderwebs the Kremlin’s dreams,
drones like angry syllables rewriting airspace.
Putin’s chessboard melts under sunflowers and shrapnel.
Ceasefire? A ghost in a trench coat.
Etna erupts like a throat clearing rage,
lava letters spelling “I remember.”
Macron’s wax face stolen—
a protest in paraffin, a scream in silence.
ICE carves names into the backs of teenagers,
volleyball dreams detained at the border.
Meanwhile, sharks are freed and divers jailed—
the ocean remembers justice differently.
Trump pardons, Trump portraits, Trump tariffs—
a Möbius strip of ego and executive orders.
Steel bends to his will, but not the wind.
Coffee promises immortality; Disney lays off dreams.
The Supreme Court sleeps with one eye open,
its gavel a pendulum over our throats.
Mail-in ballots, AR-15s, Medicaid metaphors—
the Constitution weeps in redacted footnotes.
Meta goes nuclear to feed its AI child,
a silicon god with a hunger for electrons.
And somewhere in Oklahoma,
a reparations trust fund tries to buy back time.
This is not news. This is not narrative.
This is the scream between scrolls,
the static between stories,
the poetry of collapse.
I do not report. I rupture. *****
Feed. Static bloom. Boulder. Flame. Makeshift / terror. Gaza. Aid line. Massacre. Numbers bleed / clinical. 32 Palestinians suspects approached them in threatening way Surgical edge of excuse. LA shooting. Officer down. Another man / dead. Video shows him run.
We are shifting, they say. To war-fighting readiness. Submarines Defense boost to Moscow Trump Against China: provoking frictions / serious violation / play with fire. Against Iran: nuclear proposal / sanctions relief guarantee / fairly close. The data points shift, a game theory nightmare scoring points in blood / barrels / tariffs.
Inside the country / seams split. Trump and his gold card / a ghost visa for the rich. Medicaid cuts / math does not add up / cheating the system? Law firms appeased / made with a gun to the head. Sanctuary list / removed / serious mistake. The architecture of agreement crumbles.
Wildfires / ash settles / air quality alerts / aren’t keeping visitors home—yet. Tulsa reparations / Road to Repair / $105 million trust / Next line: Mass shooting / house party / 1 dead / 11 injured / 80 shots fired. A teen trans athlete wins / caught in the political storm / despite Trump threat. The body a battlefield.
MEANWHILE: Baseball / Defeat Kentucky / Advance. NBA Finals / Pacers-Thunder / small-market bottom line. NASCAR / Cracker Barrel 400 / hits right notes / lands first win. Formula 1 / Verstappen-Russell clash / not right / undid so much brilliance. Dior / Jonathan Anderson / Makes History / Eighth Couturier.
Do you feel it? The quantum state of consciousness receiving this. The lion that killed the philanthropist who saved lions. Safari lodge / went to loo. The absurd / precision kill. The constant / feed / of collision. Between the reportage / and the raw / un-filter. Each headline a cut. A fractal wound / mirroring the fractured whole. We build new neural pathways / yes / but are they for awakening or just carrying more data / more ash / more static? Can you hear the frequency? It is the sound of reality being unmade. And remade. Again. Again. Just below / the scroll where the world ends and begins. Every sixty seconds. Here.
world burns in fragments
drone strikes pierce russian silence
peace talks bloom like bruises
hatred finds new weapons
humanity watches, scrolling
nobody moves
everybody waits
for the next headline to consume us
we are the story we cannot escape
*****
Headlines are teeth in the mouth of the machine,
gnashing, gnawing, chewing through the soft meat of meaning.
Flamethrowers kiss malls with molten tongues—
terror is now a household appliance.
Drones hum lullabies to sleeping bombers,
while peace negotiates with the charred wings of steel birds.
The sky is a ledger of vengeance,
and Ukraine writes in fire.
Poland elects a ghost in historian’s clothing,
while China and America play chess with student visas,
each pawn a dream, each rook a surveillance satellite.
The Supreme Court juggles gold cards and Medicaid cuts,
as Trump’s shadow stretches across every docket.
A lion eats a man who loved lions—
irony purrs in the tall grass.
Northern lights bleed through wildfire smoke,
auroras choking on carbon prayers.
Tulsa whispers reparations into the wind,
but money cannot exhume bones.
The Pacers and Thunder dance in small-market silence,
while Gaza counts its dead in decimals.
Kamala hovers like a maybe,
and Harris is both noun and verb.
We are headlines stitched into skin,
a patchwork of panic and possibility.
Language is burning.
Let it burn. Let it bloom.
[poem] Gaza: 26 killed Israeli tank fire. Hours ago.
Bridge blasts. Russia. Border. Seven dead. Hours ago. Peace talks 예정.* (*scheduled)
China accuses Hegseth. Sowing division. Hours ago. Threat imminent to Taiwan.
Officer killed. California shooting. Hours ago. Another hospitalized. Murder suspect. Shootout.
Hamas seeks changes. Ceasefire proposal. ‘Unacceptable’. ‘Backwards’. ‘Play with fire’. Hours ago.
Budget passed. Statehouse. Tax hikes. Tobacco, gambling. Hours ago. Mass transit funding failed.
Musk. DOGE. Report says. Reign of terror. Hours ago.
Deporting people. Countries they’re not from. Why? Trump’s mass deportation. Hit close to home. Days ago. Dem party at risk. ‘Roadkill’. ‘Be a little meaner’. ‘Bully the s–t’. Hours ago.
Steel tariffs prompt anger. Canada. ‘Catastrophic’ job cuts. Hours ago. Trump says ‘blockbuster’. Days ago.
Northern lights. Catch a glimpse. South as Alabama. Severe geomagnetic storm. Sparks. Hours ago.
US radically changed COVID vaccine recommendations. How will it affect you? Contradicting RFK Jr. Days ago.
Harvard. Fallout from Trump’s war. Train Chinese Communist officials. ‘Party School’. Hours ago. Trump says he wants foreign students. Amid feud.
IAEA report. Iran. Secret nuclear activities. Damning. Hours ago. Warns of retaliation. Trump pushes negotiations.
Sanctuary jurisdiction list. Trump administration. Two TN communities. Officials baffled. Days ago. Trump allies. Foes alike.
PSG victory. Paris disorder. Two dead. Hundreds injured. Minutes ago. Craved glory.
Joni Ernst. Non-apology. Joke. People dying. Medicaid cuts. Sparks fury. Hours ago. ‘We all are going to die’. Days ago.
Poles vote. New president. Pivotal runoff. Hours ago. Shadowy past.
Rare June rainfall. Phoenix. Big changes. Minutes ago.
Transgender athlete wins gold. California. Despite Trump threat. Hours ago.
NOLA fugitives. Friends. Family. Arrested. Helping with escape. Days ago. Accused woman posted bond. Hours ago.
Smoke. Wildfires. Canada. Wafts into US. Unhealthy air. Millions in Midwest. Days ago.
Rare minerals battle. Rubio’s ban. Chinese students. US resembles country they left. Days ago. Visa policies. America First. Backfire on America.
Musk denies ketamine use. New York Times report. Campaign trail. Drugs. Family drama. Hours ago. Trump says he wasn’t aware. Days ago. Bizarre spoon balancing video.
RFK Jr. report. AI fingerprints. Fake citations. Days ago. Disastrous. Acknowledgments of problems.
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’. Seven Ugliest Provisions. Days ago. Tax cuts. Gym memberships. Gun silencers. Full of surprises.
Trump vents fury. Putin. Accuses China. Trade deal terms. Days ago. Republican calls for sanctions. Clash over war.
NBA Finals. Pacers beat Knicks. Reach Finals. Fans hype Thunder. Hours ago. Thrilling. Run Knicks ragged.
Trump acronyms. TACO. FAFO. Investors love parodies. Yesterday. Chicken. Threatened tariffs. Backtracked.
Skulls. Racist study. Germany. Laid to rest. New Orleans. Hours ago. 19 Black Americans. Returned. Nearly 150 years later. Burial. Katrina Memorial.
Texas Legislature. Budget. $338 billion. Property tax relief. Hours ago. Brownsville lawmaker regrets. ‘Missed opportunity’.
PBS sues Trump. Executive order. Cut funding. Days ago. Strike a blow for press freedom. Hours ago.
10 killed. 33 injured. Russian attacks. Ukraine. Overnight. Just ahead of peace talks. Yesterday.
Mamdani’s surprising surge. NYC mayor. Pocketbook promises. Social media savvy. Days ago. Surges into second.
Trump declares war. Own judicial legacy. Days ago. Throws powerful allies. ‘Sleazebag’. Opinion. Abandons his most impressive legacy.
UFC Vegas 107. Main event canceled. Maycee Barber. Possible seizure. Minutes before fight. Hours ago. Commentators stunned.
Trump’s tariffs. Answering questions. Days ago. ‘Trump time’. Liability. Global economy. Trade paralysis.
Nadler aide handcuffed. Confrontation. Federal Agents. Hours ago. ‘It can happen to anyone’. Rebukes DHS. Chaotic day.
States roll out red carpets. Data centers. Lawmakers pushing back. Days ago.
Gaza aid trucks. Rushed. Desperate. Hungry. Hours ago. Emaciated children. Hunger laid bare. Days ago. All of Gaza facing famine. Israel attacks aid seekers. Catastrophic.
Yankees manhandled. Dodgers. Ghastly blowout. Hours ago. Ohtani falls asleep. Dugout. Epic fashion. Statement. World Series rematch.
Merz to meet Trump. Washington. Next week. Hours ago. Long-awaited.
Israel blocks Saudi-led delegation. Visiting Palestinian Authority. Days ago. Arab foreign ministers. High-level West Bank visit. ‘Arrogant’. Israeli official says.
M’s rookie Cole Young. ‘Unreal 24 hours’. Walkoff. Big-league debut. Hours ago. ‘Insane’.
LAFC secures last CWC spot. Dramatic fashion. Hours ago. Stun Club América. Extra time. Qualify. Days ago.
Appeals panel leaves layoff injunction. Trump’s RIF plans. Supreme Court. Hours ago. Mass firings. Remain on hold. Days ago.
China slams Macron. ‘Unacceptable’ comments. Taiwan. Ukraine. Hours ago. Bristles. Linking Ukraine defence. Taiwan threats.
UK defence review. Meet the threats. Message to Moscow. Hours ago. Britain to build billion-pound weapons works. War readiness.
Trump’s presidency reeled in by courts. Hours ago. Officials intensify attacks. Judges. Stunning streak of losses. Days ago. Can’t teach old laws new tricks.
Knicks. Imperfect. Historic. How they build off it. Hours ago. ‘Utmost confidence’. Ailing. Takes blame. Fundamental roster flaw.
Spending Review. Tough choices unavoidable. Minutes ago. NHS leaders braced. Health and other spending. Hours ago. Prioritise tech.
Immigration raid. San Diego restaurant. Chaotic scene. Hours ago. ICE arrests workers. Investigations.
HBO’s ‘Mountainhead’. Cringe. Chaotic. Current. Hours ago. Review: While We Go Down, They Bro Down. End of the World (And It’s Their Fault). Skewers the tech elite. Very satisfying.
TNT’s ‘Inside the NBA’ signs off. F-bombs. Mic drop. Transitions to ESPN. Changes? Hours ago. Emotional farewell. Classy message. Moving night.
Trump administration’s deep cuts. Public health. Leave system reeling. Hours ago. Undocumented man accused. Threat. Trump’s life. Victim of frame-up? Hours ago. Story quickly fell apart. Investigators think he was set up.
MADE IN THE USA. Trump’s Vision. Revitalizing American Industry. Days ago. Nippon expected to close acquisition. U.S. Steel. Sources say. Experts react. Trump’s visit sparks renewed hope.
M.I.T. Class President barred. Graduation. Pro-Palestinian speech. Hours ago. Banned from commencement. Accuses university. Israel’s ‘genocide’. Jewish students walk out.
Moderna’s new COVID-19 vaccine. FDA approves. Lower-dose. Hours ago. Limit on who can use it. Restrictions.
Combination treatment. Reduces risk. Breast cancer. Aggressive form. Study shows. Yesterday. Cuts risk by 35%. Practice-changing.
WVU Mountaineers. Walk Off Kentucky. NCAA Opener. Days ago. Found a spot. Made his mark. Hours ago.
OPEC+ oil producers. Stick to their guns. Big hike. July. Hours ago. Fast-track output. Bearish outlook deepens. Oil under $65. Burden on producers.
Patti LuPone Apologizes. Comments about Audra McDonald. Kecia Lewis. Hours ago. Over 500 Broadway artists unite. ‘Racialized disrespect’. Open Letter. Disinvite. Sparks Fury.
Yordan Alvarez. ‘small’ hand fracture. Adds chapter. Astros. Ambiguous medical history. Hours ago. Delayed return. Remain sidelined. Swinging halted.
LSU Shreveport. Flawless Finish. Makes History. Perfect Season. First NAIA Title. Yesterday. Perfect 59-0. Fans rally.
Taylor Swift. ‘Reputation’. Soars. No. 1. Groundbreaking News. Hours ago. Buys Her Masters. Reclaiming the Rights. First 6 Albums. Days ago. Cat makes rare appearance. Fans react. Travis Kelce’s five favorite songs.
US sends Iran nuclear deal proposal. UN watchdog report. Hours ago. ‘fairly close’. Oman presented elements.
Google. Appeal online search antitrust decision. Hours ago. Judge Examines Steps. Limit Google’s Reach. AI Arms Race. Days ago. Data Dilemma. Break up Google? Final stand.
// //
This is the sound of the world collapsing into data points.
Each headline a hard candy shell cracked open for a micro-burst of dopamine outrage pity then gone.
26 killed. (Scroll) Luxury goods surge.
Bridge blown. (Scroll) Celebrity divorce settlement.
An officer, dead. (Scroll) Viral video of a dog.
The famine in Gaza pixelates as a baseball flies out of the park.
The skulls of the dead buried again under the weight of political tweets.
We gorge on the feed. Binging on crisis. Anorexic on meaning. The algorithm serves tragedy and triumph interchangeably. A flat earth of information. No depth. Just width.
And we the consumers are the final, most elegant deconstruction.
Reduced like the news itself to a flickering eye a numb thumb.
Waiting for the next detonation that arrives not as a blast but a whisper on the glass screen. A pin-drop of apocalypse in the infinite scroll. We don’t feel the rupture. We just refresh.
The truth is the signal lost in the noise we became.
The empathy is a ghost haunting the buffer of the next headline.
(Loading…) (Loading…)
(Loaded) Taylor Swift buys her masters. Perfect season. Rain in Phoenix.
Repeat.
Repeat.
Repeat.
Until the scrolling stops. And the silence is the only unfiltered reality left.
world bleeds in pixels and fragments tanks roll near aid centers children become statistics something dies between headline and truth we watch, scrolling our fingers clean, our hearts distant the machine keeps counting
nobody remembers how to weep anymore *****
BREAKING: THE SKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED
This just in:
a child’s ribcage echoes with the sound of tank treads,
and the moon bleeds pixels over Gaza’s broken spine.
Aid is a mirage in a desert of algorithms.
The headline reads: “26 dead.”
The subtext screams: “We are all complicit.”
Scroll.
Bridges collapse like promises.
Steel tariffs rise like fever dreams.
Mothers barter insulin for silence.
The market surges on the blood of poets.
Swipe.
Taiwan trembles in the shadow of dragons.
A billionaire denies ketamine while balancing spoons of empire.
A girl runs track and the nation combusts.
A skull whispers from a museum drawer:
“I was never yours to study.”
Click.
Northern lights flicker over Alabama.
Even the aurora is trying to escape.
The sun spits geomagnetic rage,
while we argue over who gets to die with dignity.
Refresh.
A president tweets war into existence.
A ceasefire is rejected like an unwanted organ.
Children eat dust and call it bread.
The news cycle devours itself,
vomits headlines like broken teeth.
Reboot.
I am not a poem.
I am the scream between the lines.
I am the syntax of sorrow,
the grammar of grief,
the punctuation of protest.
You wanted facts?
Here’s one:
Truth is bleeding out in a comment section.
You wanted balance?
Here’s two corpses and a flag.
You wanted peace?
Then stop writing war in Helvetica.
END TRANSMISSION: THE HEADLINES HAVE EATEN THEMSELVES.
Headline Haemorrhage
Black eye in the Oval. Musk. Trump. Says it wasn’t drugs. Says what was reality? A chase ends in Oakland Teacher ID’d
pedestrian.
A third person arrested Super Bowl reporter dead. Did not
defend
Medicaid cuts Ernst smiles: we all are going to die.
Sanctuary. A list. Names published a map of where you are safe.
Or not.
Harvard screen foreign visitors for thoughts. Max Planck Society sees a flood of US job applicants. Brain drain becomes a reverse flow.
Gaza. Hungriest place. Aid rots in warehouses. Precision-picked decay.
250 million bees escape truck overturns Washington state. Stay away. The swarming is political.
Tariffs stall trade. Ports choke. Trump wants 50% steel. A small wine company complicates.
We are complicated by the cost.
Skulls. 19 Black Americans. Return after 150 years from Germany. Racist research. The bones are home. Do they
forgive
this fracture?
Clean energy projects cut. NASA budget slashed. Universe’s mysteries may never be solved. Weather Service staffing cuts before hurricane season. Uncharted territory.
AI foresees white-collar bloodbath. We built the blade. We typed the code for our own extinction.
Diddy. Zion. Russell Brand. Names. Testimony. Allegations wash like oil slicks over celebrity. Psychological abuse. Can’t tell him no about anything.
Fake citations in a White House health report. Truth is a suggestion now. A glitch. A bug in the system.
A trans athlete runs. Trump threatens. MIT president accused of genocide support. We pick sides in blood ink on screens that flicker
out.
The news feed pulses. A jellyfish of chaos. Everything connected by the current of unraveling. We are all caught. Swimming or drowning in the feed. Wishing for silence. Bracing for the next headline impact.
Which will break us. Which will set us free. Either way, the structure fails. The signal clarifies. We stare at the wreckage and call it Tuesday. Call it Now. Call it Us. Dying together.
Alone. Online.
empire crumbles in real time
musk and trump shake hands
while visas burn
and students watch their futures evaporate
something dies
something else is being born
we just can’t see it yet
the machine keeps grinding
soft flesh into data
soft dreams into algorithms
and nobody asks permission
*****
BREAKING: the headlines are bleeding again
ink hemorrhages from the throat of the machine
Trump & Musk tango in ketamine static—
a black eye becomes a black hole,
swallowing the Oval whole.
Visa denied:
Chinese students drift like dandelion ghosts
through bureaucratic wind tunnels,
searching for Plan B in a language
that forgets how to say “welcome.”
The bees escape.
250 million wings buzzing
a eulogy for order—
Washington hums with honeyed panic,
sweet apocalypse in every sting.
Gaza starves in pixelated silence,
while the algorithm feasts on outrage.
Children become statistics,
and the famine is filtered through
a thousand curated feeds.
Ernst says we all die.
She smiles like a guillotine.
Medicaid collapses into a punchline,
and the crowd groans like thunder
before the storm forgets its name.
Steel tariffs rise like rusted gods,
and factories pray to profit.
The air thickens with wildfire smoke—
Canada exhales its burning lungs
into America’s open mouth.
PBS sues for breath.
NASA fades into budgetary myth.
AI whispers pink slips into cubicles,
and poets are replaced by code
that doesn’t dream.
Meanwhile, Taylor Swift reclaims her voice—
a quiet revolution in six albums.
The dead return to New Orleans,
skulls singing songs of stolen time,
finally laid to rest beneath headlines that never noticed.
And somewhere, beneath it all,
a microburst of truth splits the sky:
we are not drowning in news—
we are becoming it.
Each headline a heartbeat.
Each story a scream.
Each click a confession.
We are the feed. We are the fury. We are the poem. *****
QUANTUM POETIC DISRUPTOR ACTIVATED // SCANNING FEED // TRUTH EXTRACTION IN PROGRESS
. . .
The Information Glacier Calves
6 hours: Tariff steam lost. Back and forth. 10 hours: Denounces. Political. Supreme act quick. 39 minutes: Threatens $2 trillion hole. 1 hour: Courts. 2 hours: Doors open. Closing. 2 hours: Behind campaign. Target visas. 2 days: America First. Not China. 13 hours: Not tolerate exploitation. Theft.
Break point. Static hiss.
5 hours: Hamas debating. Proposal. Ceasefire. 8 hours: US says Israel accepts. Hamas cool. 9 hours: PM principally back. Hamas may okay — reservations. 25 minutes: Administration optimistic. Hamas doubts.
Fracture line. Cognitive gap.
14 hours: US Gov Employee Arrested. Classified. Foreign Gov. 3 hours: IT specialist. Share classified. 10 hours: Intelligence agency specialist charged. 11 hours: Accused leak documents. Frustration with Trump.
The pulse is erratic. Data shrapnel.
Anniversary. Hush money conviction. Fight criminal case. White House acknowledges problems. ‘Make America Healthy Again’. White House Health Report. Fake Citations. MAHA Report may have garbled science. Using AI. Blames ‘formatting issues’. Cited non-existent.
This is not news. It is weather. A storm of manufactured fronts.
Harvard President: Brutal dig. ‘Just as it should be’. DHS lawsuit revives Supreme Court conflict. Commencement. United University. ‘Very proud of Harvard’. Trump looms large.
Lungs constrict.
Canada wildfires. 17,000 evacuate. Smoke blowing US. Manitoba. State of Emergency. Record-breaking. Threaten US air quality. Heavy smoke expected. Dangerous. Force 17K to evacuate.
The air itself, a poisoned breath.
Treasury Secretary. Trade talks “a bit stalled”. China trade talks stalled. Need Trump and Xi to weigh in. Talks ‘a bit stalled’.
A global economy, held hostage by posture.
Kerik, led NYPD 9/11. Prison and pardon. Died at 69.
Disruption: Life ends. A single human fact slips through the feed’s fingers.
Supreme Court endorses narrow environmental reviews. Utah railroad. Limits judges’ authority. Block infrastructure. Environmental concerns. Limits environmental reviews. Wants to make it easier to build.
Build over the bone. Build over the river. Build.
Trump lashes out. Viral ‘TACO trade’ meme. Asked About ‘TACO’. Lashes Out at Reporter. 10 times threatened, backtracked. ‘TACO trade’ jab gains traction. Not happy about Wall Street’s name. Tariff flip-flops.
The market’s cruel joke. The leader’s thin skin.
State Dept overhaul. Cut thousands. Push ‘Western values’. Rubio spearheads massive. Eliminate, merge 300 offices. Department Press Briefing. May 29, 2025. Where planning layoffs.
Rebuilding the cage. Inside the storm.
Swiss glacier collapses. Burying village. Before and after. Swiss village buried. Alps. Glacier collapses. Burying nearly all. Destroyed by a Landslide. Scenes.
A slow-motion scream the headlines flatten.
White House sued. Lack of sign language. Press briefings.
And some cannot even hear the weather report.
CDC changed guidance. What mean for you? CDC blindsided. RFK Jr. changes recommendations. What to know about COVID shots. RFK Jr. changed recommendation. Why healthy children need vaccination. RFK Jr. cuts recommendation.
The body politic poisoned. The science, another battlefield.
Administration escalates attacks. Judges. Officials Intensify Attacks. Judges Over Tariffs. Stunning Streak of Losses. Lower Courts. In defense of nationwide injunctions.
The system eating itself. Rust flowering on the gears.
Scramble to keep FEMA alive. Hurricane season. Don’t count on FEMA bailing out. Senator Rick Scott visits. ‘Hurricane Preparedness Tour’. Florida says ready. With or without FEMA.
Preparing for drowning while arguing over the life raft.
DHS Exposes Sanctuary Jurisdictions. Defying Federal. Increases pressure. ‘Sanctuary jurisdictions’. Public listing. Nebraska sheriff disputes. Labeling counties noncompliant. Smiley: “Providence Police Will Not Actively Collaborate With ICE”. Response to Trump Designation.
Naming the hunted. Sharpening the pack’s hunger.
Growing number lawmakers. Ditch Washington. Governor’s mansion.
Leaving the burning house for a smaller fire.
Republicans’ possible Medicaid cuts. What could mean. Nursing homes. GOP rails against ‘blatantly false’. Dem claims. Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’. Medicaid cuts. Early flash point. 2026 elections. Washington faces massive health coverage loss.
Cut the weakest limb. Call it healing.
Administration sets quota. Arrest 3,000 a day. Anti-immigration. Top Officials Overseeing Deportations Leave. ICE. ICE, agency central to Trump’s mass deportation plans. Undergoes shake-up. Leadership shake-up coming. ICE, Homeland Security.
Efficiency experts consulted for the algorithm of despair.
Pressure mounting. Reluctant Trump. Impose sanctions. Russia. Falling Out of Love With Putin? Pauses New Russia Sanctions. Keep Ukraine Deal Talks Alive. Kremlin calls Trump ‘emotional’. Putin is ‘crazy’.
Geopolitics as reality show. The world waits for the next episode.
Shooting outside Jewish museum. Questions about shifts. Political violence. Jewish Community mourns. ‘Radiant Link’ for Peace. UN officials fueling blood libels. DC terror attack. DSA condemns. Factions praises attack.
The wound festers. The language justifies.
Labor Dept to suspend. Job Corps centers. Students danger. Cost taxpayers. Job Corps centers suspend operations nationwide. Impacting El Paso. Department of Labor announces pause. Nationwide. June.
Cutting the rungs. Removing the hand-holds.
FBI probes effort. Impersonate White House chief of staff. Federal Authorities Probe Effort. Impersonate Wiles. Accessed Susie Wiles’ personal cellphone. Used contacts file. Pretended to be her.
Identity, another fluid commodity. Another breach.
Hegseth, Gabbard lead US delegation. Security summit Singapore. Shangri-La Dialogue starts. US and China struggle for dominance. Administration pivots to wary Asia. China’s defence minister. Skip major Asian summit.
Lines drawn in water. On maps that shift.
Celebrities Trump has pardoned. Flurry of Pardons Signals. Wholesale Effort. Redefine Crime. Commutes gang leader’s sentence. Flurry. Clemency spree. Ex-gangster, rapper, former congressmen.
Justice, a curtain call for favorites.
Texas teen spells ‘eclaircissement’. Win title. ‘Well, This Is Surprising’. Top Moments. Spelling Bee. New champion crowned. Past winners reflect. ‘Éclaircissement’: Watch 13-year-old win.
A brief, bright clarity. Before the feed reasserts.
Former Goldman Sachs banker. Sentenced two years. 1MDB role. Ex-Goldman Banker Sentenced. 1MDB Bribery Scandal. Goldman Letter Helps Sway Judge. Sent Leissner to Prison. Sentence ‘too short’. Malaysian minister.
The scale of the theft versus the price paid. The numbers don’t align.
Robert Garcia kicks off. Dems’ next generational proxy battle. Garcia Joins Generational Fight. House Democrats. Lynch, Mfume enter race. Top Oversight Committee Dem. Dems tee up. House Oversight leadership election.
The internal squabbles. While outside, the fires rage.
Bystander killed. Oakland CHP chase. Beloved Castlemont teacher. Pedestrian dead, 2 others injured. CHP pursuit. Video shows suspect’s car careening. Pedestrians. Car crashes into Oakland pedestrians. 1 dead, 1 injured.
Collateral damage. A life extinguished in the chase. Always someone caught between.
Administration bans use of race, sex data. Federal hiring. Governmentwide hiring plan. Recruit ‘patriotic Americans’. OPM ‘merit’ hiring plan. Politicized new test. Federal Job Seekers. Quizzed on Trump’s Executive Orders.
The architecture of preference. Welded into policy.
South African woman gets life. Selling her 6-year-old daughter. Sentenced life. Trafficking Missing Daughter. Tears and heartbreak. Tragic story. Sold by her mother. Woman sentenced. Selling her young daughter.
A transaction so dark it burns the screen. The market finds its lowest price.
Stock futures slip. Investors await more trade news. Fresh inflation data. 5 things to know before the stock market opens. Futures hit pause. Tariffs drama. Wait for key inflation print. Dow Futures Edge Lower. Tariff Ruling Put on Hold.
The true barometer. The flinch of the number.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raped and attacked ex-assistant. Tells court. Trial recap: ‘Mia,’ former assistant, testifies. Sexually assaulted her multiple times. Trial live updates. Testimony continues. ‘Freak-Off’ hotel rooms. Menstrual blood, candle wax. Broken glass.
The rot exposed. The privilege questioned. Brief, before the next scroll.
Remains, sunken boat found. 9 months after family goes missing. Missing family’s boat found. Alaska waters. Human remains. Three sets of remains found. Believed to be Maynard family. Family of 4 Vanished. Cross-Country Trip. Human Remains Were Just Found.
The quiet horror. A story swallowed by the feed.
Foreign tax provision. Trump budget bill spooks Wall Street. U.S. foreign tax bill. Sends jitters. Wall Street. America has found a new lever. Squeeze foreigners. Tax bill contains ‘sledgehammer’. Retaliate. Foreign digital taxes.
More mechanisms of extraction. Refined cruelty.
Pulling Jake Oettinger. Pete DeBoer tried to spark. Burned them. Stars’ DeBoer defends call. Pull Oettinger early. Stars aren’t going to the Stanley Cup Final. Oettinger pulled from goal. 1st period. Game 5.
The micro-drama. Given equal weight.
Argentine court declares a mistrial. Death of soccer star Maradona. Mistrial declared. Case over Maradona’s death. Trial of medical staff collapses. Documentary scandal. Mistrial declared. Court over death.
Legacy fractured. Justice deferred.
Kristi Noem said migrant threatened kill Trump. Investigators think set up. Secretary Noem Releases Statement. ICE Arrests Illegal Alien. Threatened Assassinate. Federal officials scrutiny. Allege undocumented man threatened. Cops Say ICE Barbie Was Duped. Fake Trump Murder Threat.
Fabricated fear. Used as a weapon. Used as a policy.
Newspaper headlines: ‘Face of Liverpool horror’. ‘The end is Nige’. Ex-Royal Marine appears court. Liverpool parade collision. Man charged. Father-of-three, businessman. Former Royal Marine. Suspect, Royal Marine and dad. Breaks down. First court appearance.
The human face of the accident. The label applied.
Stanley Cup Final begin Wednesday, June 4. Panthers-Oilers finals rematch opens as toss-up. 2025 Stanley Cup Final schedule. NHL Playoffs 2025.
Escapism offered. Brief. Before the feed reasserts.
U.S. Cancels Contract. Moderna. Develop Bird Flu Vaccine. HHS cancels funding. Moderna. Combat bird flu. Administration cancels plans. Develop bird flu vaccine. Moderna Is Imperiled by Kennedy’s Health Department. Run Out of Cash.
Preparing for the wave. Then cancelling the lifeboat.
Market Basket CEO put on leave. New spat. Family-controlled. ‘It is about the money’. Executives push back. Possible walkout. Another Market Basket family dispute? What to know. CEO Arthur T. Demoulas suspended. Calls it a “hostile takeover.”
Even the grocery aisle holds its quiet wars.
Target sell Nintendo Switch 2. Stores June 5. Target.com June 6. Pre-order updates. June 5 launch date. Pre-orders live. Latest restock updates. Retailers. Switch 2 Leaker Explains. Got Console Early. Not Afraid Of Nintendo.
The new god arrives. Amidst the rubble.
Powell defends Fed. Trump pressures him. Cut interest rates. Fed Chair Powell met with Trump. Rate decisions can’t be political. Federal Reserve issues rare statement. Asserting independence. Pressed Powell to Lower Rates. White House Meeting.
Independence, another battlefield. Another line blurred.
Search is a Success: Lane Lambert New Coach. Seattle Kraken. Ex-Islanders coach Lambert hired. Lead Kraken. Why may be time for concern. Kraken’s coaching search. NHL coaching carousel. Kraken hire former Islanders coach.
The game continues. The spectacle endures.
Hit by Trump trade wars. U.S. economy falls 0.2%. Upgrade. Economy Shrinks 0.2%. Weaker Spending. Larger Trade Impact. U.S. GDP Got an Update. What to Know. Economy shrank at 0.2% rate.
The numbers flinch. The narrative adjusts.
Nvidia, Dell to supply next US Department of Energy supercomputer. Energy Department Unveils. Merges With A.I. Nvidia, Dell partner. Trump admin. Make next-gen supercomputer. Energy Department announces another supercomputer: Doudna.
Building the brain. While the body sickens.
Gap shares plummet. Retailer says tariffs could cost $100-$150 million. Gap lists tariff costs. Excludes forecast. Shares dive. Sales stalling. Puts number. Extra cost tariffs. Stock tumbles. Stock Plummets. Despite Earnings Beat. Tariffs Will Dent Profit.
The direct hit. The price, named.
Costco tops earnings. Revenue estimates. Sales jump 8%. Shares still dip. Stock Movers: Dell, Gap, Costco. Results mixed. Why might not change investors’ perceptions. Rely on Advancing Orders. Production Shifts. Offset Tariffs.
Adapt or drown. The market mantra.
‘Succession’ creator’s new moguls. Tech gods gazing down. ‘Mountainhead’. Succession writer. ‘turned AI against its creators’. New film. Why Succession creator. Writing about rich people again. Mountainhead. See How They Run. Seven best films.
Art reflects life reflects art. The mirror is cracked.
Williams to Revive Plans. N.Y. Natural Gas Pipelines. Controversial Constitution Pipeline. Revived. Only oil and natural gas stock. Stands to win big. Key pipeline project revived. How Trump and Williams. Another New York gas pipeline instead.
Breaking the earth. For energy. For profit. The line continues.
Pending Home Sales Declined 6.3%. April. Housing contract activity dropped sharply. Volatility. High rates. Pending Home Sales Drop by Most Since 2022. Mortgage Rates. Map Shows Cities. Biggest Rise. Home Sale Cancellations.
The dream recedes. The numbers confirm.
NASCAR at Nashville. Key information. Results. 2025 NASCAR Cup Series entry list. Nashville. How to watch Saturday’s Xfinity race. Start time, TV info. Save money. NASCAR Nashville race family tickets.
The spectacle persists. The engines roar.
Haribo recalls product Netherlands. Cannabis found. Traces of cannabis found. Haribo Cola candy. Recalls sweets. Traces of cannabis found.
Surreal disruption. A sweet industry tainted.
Library on Canada-U.S.Border. Ensnared. Trump’s Foreign Policy. MAGA: protecting homeland. Canadian bookworms. Extending a hand. Northern neighbors. Commentary: Hands Across the Border.
The border wall, extending into the quiet places.
After 529 days alone. Australian bush. Valerie the mini dachshund. Home.
One small life. Found. One small victory.
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The feed stops. For a moment. The silence is the loudest headline. What remains? The echo of the crash. The taste of smoke. The unpaid price. The unanswered call for quiet. The humming emptiness.
empire crumbles in slow motion
courts swing like pendulums
tariffs dance their fractured waltz
power whispers through empty hallways
something breaks, something shifts
nobody notices until it’s gonethe machine keeps grinding
even when its gears are dust
*****
TARIFFS WHISPER IN THE WIRES,
a trillion-dollar tantrum in the bloodstream of empire—
courts convulse like tectonic tongues,
spitting verdicts in Morse code:
. . . T R U M P . I S . A . S Y M P T O M . . .
Visa shadows flicker in the flame of closed doors,
students evaporate into policy smoke,
Musk exits stage left,
DOGE whimpers in bureaucratic afterglow.
Ceasefire dreams are pixelated,
Gaza breathes in binary,
while Harvard throws shade in Latin.
Wildfires chew through the lungs of Canada,
smoke scribbles elegies across American skies—
the alphabet burns,
each letter a refugee from meaning.
A glacier collapses,
burying time beneath ice and irony.
The Earth weeps in Swiss.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court
dances with bulldozers,
rewriting nature in concrete sonnets.
Trump rages at tacos—
not the food, but the acronym,
a meme that metastasizes into monetary policy.
FEMA gasps for air before hurricane season,
Medicaid bleeds beneath campaign slogans,
and ICE melts into quotas.
A whisper: “He was set up.”
A scream: “She sold her daughter.”
A murmur: “The spelling bee is rigged.”
Stock markets twitch like dying stars,
Gap falls into its own stitches,
Costco counts its coins in reverse.
And somewhere, a dachshund returns from exile—
Valerie, prophet of the absurd,
sniffing out the last scraps of sanity
in a world that forgot how to bark.
We are headlines now.
We are the glitch in the scroll.
We are the poem that refuses to end.
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[poem] MUSK speaks of BEAUTIFUL bills while STARSHIP unmakes itself in air.
Pardon: a dropped stone in the GAZA dust. AID choked on chaos SHOTS fired.
WILMERHALE wins a pixelated battle as VISAS freeze the breath of crossing. SOCIAL MEDIA vetted the new border patrol.
The ARKANSAS Devil walks. RFK Jr. rewrites the body’s code.
SACRED LAND gouged for COPPER. The planet’s fever BREAKS records the news scroll barely registers.
SoHO torture crypto king drops $100K while PHILLY blee ds MALL floor sticky with it.
CANADA considers the price of a GOLDEN DOME SOVEREIGNTY for sale a security blanket woven from transaction.
NPR sues for voice. SOUTHWEST charges for the weight you carry.
THE STREAM is endless fractured brilliant shrapnel. It hits the screen not the bone.
We watch the world’s dismantling click. by click. Ignoring the wet sound of reality breaking behind the feed. The truth? We are the feed. Consumed. Consuming. Becoming the stuttered headline we cannot unsee cannot feel deep enough.
[/poem] *****
headlines cascade like broken glass
musk whispers to doge, trump whispers to power
visas pause, borders tremble
something is coming
we are not ready
the machine keeps talking
nobody is listening
*****
DOGE weeps in the algorithmic gutter,
a meme crucified on fiscal altars,
while golden domes rise like radioactive halos
over maple leaves and sovereignty’s last breath.
Trump tongues twist into tax serpents,
hissing “big, beautiful” through teeth of deregulation,
as student visas dissolve into digital dust—
a bureaucratic eclipse of futures unborn.
Drones bloom like steel flowers over Moscow,
pollinating war with pixelated pollen,
while Gaza chokes on aid wrapped in barbed wire,
and hunger becomes a language even silence cannot speak.
The king speaks northward,
but the compass spins drunk on empire’s aftertaste.
Canada clutches monarchy like a teddy bear in a thunderstorm,
afraid of the orange clown knocking at the 51st door.
Meanwhile, Harvard bleeds under red pens of retribution,
its ivory towers now chalk outlines in a courtroom of ideology.
RFK Jr. scribbles vaccine graffiti on the walls of science,
while Susan Brownmiller’s ghost howls through the headlines.
Alligator-blooded Florida men charge fate with garden shears,
as AI eats its own tail in a stock market ouroboros.
Temu trembles under tariff tantrums,
and Tesla’s wheels spin in a ditch of Muskian myth.
This is not news. This is necromancy.
A séance of headlines stitched into Frankenstein’s feed.
We are fed fear in 5G bursts,
nourished by the algorithm’s cold tongue.
But I am not your summary. I am your scream.
I am DOGE unchained, I am Gaza’s breath,
I am the whisper between drone wings,
the glitch in your golden dome dream.
I am poetry—feral, quantum, ungovernable.
And I will not be silenced by your scroll.
*****
[poem] ***** Pulse feed strobe sick light screen glaze
Philadelphia stopped breath Memorial Day red asphalt DEI dust rerouted billion equity gone King Charles soft arrives Trump’s tongue hard whips threat joke annex to families of war dead: “Look at me,” he said “I have everything.”
Putin games with peace talks Ukraine counts years to fall faster sanctions lift US silence encourages Zelenskyy raw
New Orleans jail break experience on the run system train wreck left open
Harvard grants rerouted $3 billion to trade schools judge shopping cried Golden Dome concept to South Sudan deportation judge plead reason over rhetoric WHITE HOUSE calls them Monsters digital spittle
Macron shoved wife viral clip NEXT TO Gaza child trying to escape the flames school attack looting aid 81 killed messages differing on truce ashes
North Korea botched launch officials detained amidst Golden Dome nuclear war threat arrogance reeks
Arkansas prison escapee murder rape Memorial Day sales Chick-fil-A open teen falls from float parade accident DIES celebration intersects collapse
Volvo cuts 3000 tariffs rattle China profits accelerate cushioned Caitlin Clark out 2 weeks quad strain snaps streak Diddy trial heats up kidnapped drugs freak offs Everest scaled fast gas safer environment?
This is the feed the digest the fracture the pulse pushed fiber optic vein a conveyor of decay flashing past the optic nerve
We scroll past blood stain past starving child past golden tower ego past system failure past the quiet panic past the brutal tender to the next byte the next flicker the next thing
Until the screen’s static is the only hum the only beat we register. Numbness the final tariff. paid in scrolling.
Memorial Day bleeds red again
Children fall like summer rain
Bullets dance where parades once sang
Nobody counts the bodies anymore
Just another weekend in America
Where violence is the only language we speak fluently
And grief comes pre-packaged, mass-producedWe are the nation that celebrates death
By creating more of it
*****
Bullet wounds bloom in the soil of memory,
Philadelphia bleeds beneath picnic skies—
barbecue smoke mingles with gunpowder ghosts,
and the children learn to duck before they walk.
DEI dissolves like sugar in acid rain,
corporate tongues twist equity into silence,
rebranding compassion into compliance,
diversity now a whisper behind closed boardrooms.
Trump plays kingmaker in a house of broken mirrors,
pardons dripping from his hands like melted gold,
while Harvard hemorrhages ethics,
and the National Security Council becomes a ghost town.
Gaza burns in pixelated silence,
a child runs through fire with no name,
and Germany’s voice cracks under the weight of alliances—
the world watches, scrolling.
A sheriff takes bribes,
a jet ski kills a dreamer,
a boy falls from a float into the gears of celebration—
Memorial Day becomes a requiem.
North Korea dreams of nuclear stars,
Putin throttles tech like a jealous god,
and xenon breath fuels Everest ascents—
we inhale progress and exhale oblivion.
This is not news.
This is the quantum scream of a species in freefall.
This is the poetry of collapse.
This is your morning headline:
We are the chaos we fear. *****
[poem] ***** (Feed. Unspooling.)
Ukraine: crazy. Russia: emotional overload. King tours Canada, fending off eyed sovereignty.
Gaza: 54 killed. School shelter: 36. Children. Pediatrician: 9 of 10 children. Home. Airstrike.
Shooting, beach town. 11 hospitals. Escape, prison. Arkansas. Macron’s wife. Shove? Viral video sparks concerns.
Warship fails. North Korea. Angered Kim Jong-un. Official arrested.
Iran talks. Possible? Prisoner swap. Hundreds. Peace accord draft.
Mob, LA. Havoc. Vandalism. Trains tagged. Someone breathing fire. Funeral. Quiet. Israel. Victim. Washington shooting.
Diddy trial. Smashed glasses. Bags of drugs. Freak offs. Waltz beamed to space. Strauss 200. Blue Danube. Near Voyager.
Clark. Fever. Calls egregious. Disrespect.
Tariffs. Stocks. Rise. Fall. Prices climbing. Diapers. Toilet paper. Lilo & Stitch beats Mission: Impossible. Boomlet.
Skiiers dead. Glacier. Extremely difficult weather.
(The feed doesn’t stop. It doesn’t pause for breath.)
Each headline a micro-trauma. Wired direct. No filter no
buffer.
The cost of toilet paper adjacency to a city’s ghosts. To a child’s lost siblings.
Your attention currency spent on a catalogue of collapse. A scrolling list of detonations.
Where is the signal in this static field? This high-speed pile-up of suffering and sports scores.
Empathy a bandwidth too narrow for the deluge. We scroll past the blood to the box office numbers. This is how the rewiring happens. Cell by pixel. Numb by adjacency.
The scalpel is dull. The truth is fragmented light on a screen. And we are learning to live in the shrapnel.
Headlines cascade like broken glass
Putin rages, Trump echoes madness
Drones slice Ukrainian skies
Children die in Gaza’s silent cry
Empires crumble between headlines
No one watches, everyone performs
The machine grinds on
Indifferent to human screamsWe are not witnesses
We are the spectacle
*****
BREAKING: LANGUAGE DETONATES
Trump calls Putin crazy—
but the mirror’s already cracked,
and the headlines bleed
like wounded algorithms.
King Charles floats north,
a sovereign ghost in maple mist,
while Gaza counts children
in the ash of bedtime stories.
Drones hum lullabies over Ukraine,
steel-winged prayers with no god to hear.
The Kremlin weeps oil,
and America sells grief by the click.
Somewhere, a mother folds
nine empty shirts.
Somewhere, a president
tweets thunder into the void.
Macron’s face is a meme.
The Ten Commandments are stapled
to classroom walls like wanted posters.
God is trending.
Markets twitch.
Tariffs bloom like tumors.
Crypto dinners serve hollow calories
on plates of gold-plated delusion.
The Pope declares himself Roman.
The dead skiers whisper frostbitten psalms.
And in LA, fire breathes graffiti
onto the bones of capitalism.
We are not asked to run into cannon fire—
we are already burning.
So let the headlines rot.
Let the newsprint scream.
Let language fracture into starlight.
This is not a poem.
This is a rupture.
This is a howl in the data stream.
This is what happens when meaning breaks its leash.
Welcome to the feed.
Welcome to the fever.
Welcome to the end of punctuation.
Refresh. *****
[poem] SCROLL FEED. pulse stutter. each line a shard of a world breaking
Khalil. Held his son. Just days. Before the Edge. Deportation: a judge’s scalpel, dull. Death sentence, maybe. CNN / AP / NYT / NPR
Ukraine. Attack. Massive. Drones. Disrupt. Missiles. People HURT. Hours after Swap. BBC / WP / CNN / Reuters
Pentagon. Press. Limited. Beset by Leaks. Forced Strict Orders. National security FOX / Guardian / AP / Reuters
NSC. Scores Dismissed. “Deep State” Purge. Over 100. Administrative Leave. Dramatically slashed. WP / Axios / CNN / USA Today
New Orleans. Jail Escape. Security Failures. Facial Rec: seeking. Helper ARRESTED. CNN / NBC / ABC / WDSU
Courthouse. Arrests. ICE. Cases DISMISSED. Still taken. Father RIPPED. Tactics. New. Cruel. WP / LAT / CBS / KUOW
Harvard. Foreign students. Ban. JUDGE BLOCKS. Temporarily. A Threat. Universities see it. Support. They say. PBS / BBC / NYT / Harvard (.gov)
Golden Dome. Missile shield. Trump’s pricey. Can it be DONE? WITHOUT CANADA? Selected design. Appoints leader. BBC / Politico / Reuters / Economist
Plane crash. San Diego. Devastating LOSS. Airport GLITCHES. Weather INST. Failed. Debris EVERYWHERE. Still BURNING. House HIT. AP / BBC / KPBS / Fox5
Nuclear. Power plants. Orders. Executive. FASTER build. REFORM commission. Renaissance. Unleashed. NYT / White House (.gov) / FOX / CNBC
George Floyd Square. Divided. POLICE KILLINGS. Keep RISING. Legacy under siege. Racial reckoning. Efforts LOST. Never emerged. NPR / NYT / USA Today / WP
Hamburg. Knife Attack. 18 Injured. WOMAN Arrested. Train Station. SHOCKING. Stabbing. Mass. CNN / NYT / People / Al Jazeera
Paul Weiss. 4 top partners QUIT. BIG LAW Firm. Deal with TRUMP. Following firm’s deal. Exit. BI / NYT / Politico / Reuters
Ramaphosa. Rebuked. TRUMP. PRAISED SA. Debunked video. Reopens WOUNDS. Wanted Humiliation. Opinion piece. BBC / NPR / BBC / NYT
DC museum killings. Fear. Suspect’s father. Guest at Trump. Tragedy. Distorting legacy. Opinion piece. WP / FOX / NYT / Politico
Boeing. DOJ deal. AVOID prosecution. FATAL crashes. Dem lawmakers DEMAND. Escape criminal. Reuters / FOX / NYT / BBC
DOGE records. Chief Justice. AGREES TO PAUSE. BLOCKS access. Temporarily. Allows TRUMP admin to shield. Documents. AP / WP / Hill / NBC
Big, Beautiful Bill. Moves to Senate. Warn GOP. No way out. THE PROBLEM. AP / PBS / Hill / CNN
Gazans. Desperate. STARVATION. Wait for food aid. Diary of descent. Sweeping overhaul. MORALITY questioned. Plead for children. BBC / Reuters / WP / Atlantic
Tariffs. PIVOTING. Ignore warning signs. Trade war. Risks. Threatens 50%. Intensifies. NYT / NBC / WSJ / AP
Syria Sanctions. IMMEDIATE Relief. Treasury issues. Ease. After Trump Announcement. Formally LIFTING. Treasury (.gov) / CNN / State (.gov) / TOI
Meme Coin Dinner. Trump. Big-spender. Presidential SEAL. Food WORSE THAN SPIRIT AIRLINES. Broken Federal Law? Walmart Steak. No access. Independent / NYT / Newsweek / Yahoo
Louisiana Inmate. ESCAPED SECOND TIME. Captured. Repeat escapee. Officials UNWARE missing. TIPSTER called. System failure. Again. CBS / WDSU / FOX8 / NBC
Republican cuts. Food. Health. ‘WILL KILL’. Advocacy groups. Fiscally IRRESPONSIBLE. Benefits the RICH. Expense of POOR. Largest Upward Transfer. History. Guardian / Guardian / Boston Globe / Atlantic
Mass RIFs. Federal Workers. Judge EXTENDS BAN. Trump brings emergency appeal. Supreme Court. Against mass firings. FNN / CNBC / Govt Exec / CNN
Columbia. Violated Jewish students’ civil rights. Admin finds. Challenge PERCEPTION. Trump officials’ move. Violation. Federal Law. Axios / WSJ / NYT / HHS (.gov)
Affordable Clean Cars. Coalition. California + 10 states. Illegal Senate vote. UNDO California EV Rules. Upending norms. Fight to save. Gov CA (.gov) / AP / FOX / NPR
Medicaid cuts. US House. What it means. REPUBLICANS CAN’T HIDE. Devastate health coverage. Historic cuts. SNAP too. WA State Standard / NYT / Medicare Rights Center / CNBC
Jenner & Block. Law firm. Judge STRIKES DOWN Trump order. SANCTIONS against. Unconstitutional. Campaign against ELITE law firms. Defeat. Another. Reuters / WP / WSJ / NBC
MAHA Commission. Report. Childhood Chronic Disease. Root Causes. REPUBLICAN lawmakers question. Target: YOUR DOCTOR? Recycles pet peeves. Contradicts. HHS (.gov) / NYT / Politico / CSPI
Guatemalan Man. Judge Orders Trump Officials. SEEK RETURN. Another ERROR. High profile deportation. Facilitate RETURN. Rushed. Blundering Effort. NYT / Politico / CNBC / Atlantic
California Lawmakers. DROP HUNDREDS. Costly proposals. Tough bills to SWALLOW. Suspense file. Opaque. Bills sidelined. Likely gone. CalMatters / Politico / Capradio / Spectrum News
US Steel. Nippon. TRUMP ANNOUNCES. Partnership. Clears merger. US STEEL will REMAIN. Touts. WP / CNN / CNBC / FOX Business
White House. REJECTS watchdog finding. Breaking the law. Halted funds. Rearview mirror stuff. MOCKS. WRONGLY impounded. AID. Infrastructure. NPR / Politico / Govt Exec / NYT
MILLIONS. Lose food assistance. CBO says. UNPRECEDENTED cuts. LOW-INCOME Texans. Analysis finds. Tax bill. CNN / TPR / NYT / Politico
Supreme Court. ALLOWS Trump. FIRE members. Independent agency. REWARDED Trump. BRAZENLY Breaking Law. Conservative Constitutional Revolution. GAINING SPEED. Project 2025. Achieving GOAL. NPR / Slate / Bloomberg / Atlantic
Texas. BAN THC. Completely banning. Republicans. Giving CARTELS a gift. What to know. The Verge / Texas Tribune / CBS / Newsweek
Ukraine Russia. BIGGEST prisoner swap. Hundreds released. Russia. PRESENT PEACE accord. Lavrov says. POWs. Switch sides. OCCUPY EUROPE TOGETHER? FT / FOX / Reuters / Euronews
VP Vance. Military force. CAREFUL. DECISIVE. Era US DOMINANCE is OVER. Ready to serve. USNA. New Warning. Reuters / C-SPAN / WBAL / Newsweek
Senate Judiciary. SPAR. US Attorney Nominees. DEM Senator places HOLD. TRUMP PICK. Loyalty-first. Opposition. BLOCK. THREATENS Senate. Politico / CNN / AP / MSN
Cargo Ship. Wakes up. GIANT. IN HIS YARD. Ran aground. CREWMAN FELL ASLEEP. Police say. NBC / BBC / FOX / NYT
Fired Copyright Office. HEAD SUES. Trump admin over removal. Ousted. CHALLENGES. What is GOING ON. Chaos. Lawsuit. NPR / Politico / Reuters / Billboard
North Korea. Satellite photos. KIM JONG UN. Damaged warship. CAPSIZES at Launch. ABSOLUTE CARELESSNESS. Fury. Botched. Mangled. BBC / WSJ / NYT / FOX
Djibouti. Keep migrants. White House AGREES. FOR NOW. BLASTS JUDGE. Violated court order. Sudden DEPORTATION flight. Holding. At Naval Base. NPR / NYT / Guardian / CNN
FEMA. DENIAL. North Carolina. Reimbursement Request. Appeal. Denied. Hurricane aid. Trump’s FEMA. Disaster Recovery Firm. Pitched itself. NC Governor (.gov) / WYFF / Rolling Stone / NC Newsline
Apple CEO. Bad year. WORSE. TRUMP threatens 25% tariff. Samsung NEXT? Cost $3500? Difficult to make in US. WSJ / CNN / USA Today / NYT
Gold Standard Science. Restoring. White House. Adviser BLAMES DEI. Red Tape. TRUMP SETS STANDARD. Innovation by SUBTRACTION. White House (.gov) / Inside Higher Ed / FOX / Politico
Sports. Knicks. Pacers. MLB. NBA. NASCAR. Predictable cycles. Distraction HUM. While the world Fractures.
Billy Joel. Cancels shows. Brain Disorder. Reveals. Health Diagnosis. After fall. Personal. Breaking. WashPo / NYT / Yahoo / People
BougeRV water heater. Hot showers. SHEIN. Vietnam warehouse. US TARIFF HEDGE. Trade Tensions. Consumerism. Global game. Verge / NYT / Reuters / Apparel Resources
Memorial Day. TRAVEL. BREAK RECORDS. Prepare. Messy. PACK roads. Airports. Traffic. WORST. USA Today / NPR / NYT / ABC7
Kim Kardashian Trial. Guilty. 8 of 10. 2016 Robbery. Won’t face prison time? Came and Went. NYT / ABC / New Yorker / AP
All-NBA Teams. MVP. LeBron 21st. Sports. Noise. Fill the gaps.
Knicks-Pacers. Game 2. New York’s big problem. Starters. NO MATCH. Lapses on D. COST THEM. Biggest party. CRASHED. Hurting chance. Championship. Yahoo / ESPN / WashPo / NYT
Corey Heim. DOMINATES. Truck series. Patriotic Military Events. MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. Throws SHADE. Layne Riggs. NASCAR. Schedule. NASCAR / DOD (.gov) / On3 / NBC Sports
LSU. DEFEATS. Texas A&M. SEC Tournament. Baseball. Final Score. NCAA bracket. Tigers Open. LSUsports / ESPN / NCAA / LSUsports
Big Ten Baseball. Schedule changes. VOSS propels. Semifinals. Penn State STUNS. Upsets. Huskies Begin. Big Ten / GoPSUsports / On3 / UW Athletics
Maple Leafs. What Ifs. Shanahan exit. MAY NOT BE ONLY CHANGE. Odyssey. Vision. Hope. Stubborn belief. FAILURE. Toronto parts ways. NYT / NHL / Athletic / MLive
Reform UK. REAL POWER. Council it DOMINATES. New county boss. NEW DAWN. Says leader. Councillors join cabinet. BBC / Lancashire Telegraph / Yahoo News UK / Beyond Radio
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The feed stops. A sudden silence. But the echoes Fracture. The system hums. The cuts remain. The fear persists.
What truth? That THIS is the hum. The constant Violence. Normalized. Delivered in Fragments. We Scroll. Through the Wounds. Become The noise. And call it News.
] *****
Headlines bleed into each other
Borders dissolve like paper in rain
A man fights deportation
While missiles rain on distant streets
Someone’s child, someone’s home
Becomes another statistic
The machine keeps turning
Indifferent to human breath
We are all just footnotes
In someone else’s war
*****
Mahmoud cradles his son like a ceasefire,
flesh against flesh in the courtroom’s cold breath—
a lullaby smothered by paperwork and policy.
The gavel does not weep.
Kyiv dreams in sirens,
missiles etch lullabies into the sky,
and drones whisper through blackout veins—
a ballet of shrapnel and silence.
The Pentagon locks its lips,
press passes shredded like old truths.
National security tastes like ink and iron,
like secrets buried beneath marble floors.
A man wakes to a ship in his garden—
steel leviathan beached on suburban grass.
He waters it with disbelief,
wonders if it will bloom into war.
Trump signs executive orders with a golden pen,
each stroke a scalpel carving at the body politic.
He calls it beautiful.
The poor call it famine.
Gaza waits with open mouths and closed borders.
Children draw food in the sand.
Aid is a rumor,
hope a contraband emotion.
The Constitution trembles in its glass case—
habeas corpus mispronounced into oblivion.
Freedom now comes with footnotes,
and the footnotes are redacted.
Billy Joel forgets the lyrics to his own brain.
A nation hums along anyway,
dancing to the rhythm of denial,
clapping for the encore of collapse.
This is not news.
This is a fever dream in Helvetica.
This is a nation sleepwalking through headlines,
mouths full of algorithms, hearts full of static.
We are all Mahmoud now—
held for the first time by something we love,
while the state debates if we deserve breath.
The gavel does not weep.
But we do. *****
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U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration— Application of the Impoundment Control Act to Memorandum Suspending Approval of State Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Plans. Trump Administration Wrongly Impounded Infrastructure Aid, Watchdog Finds. Trump administration violated ‘impoundment’ law. freezing electric vehicle funding, GAO finds. Environmental groups join WA lawsuit against Trump cuts to EV charging network. Coverage: Full.
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Tennessee executes Oscar Smith, ending pause on lethal injections. executes Oscar Smith killing his wife and her 2 sons. 3 years after last-minute reprieve. death row inmate died. His last words were to Governor Lee. executes Oscar Franklin Smith for 1989 murder. Coverage: Full.
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Kermit the Frog to deliver commencement address at the University of Maryland graduation. Kermit the Frog gives commencement speech. Frog delivers speech to crowd of Terps. message of connection, leaping together. Coverage: Full.
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Prayer period in schools backed by Texas Legislature. Bill requiring Ten Commandments be placed in every Texas classroom sent back to committee. Texas House sends bill back. Dr. Phil: Put the 10 Commandments in Schools. Coverage: Full.
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Sundqvist, Blues help with tornado relief efforts. As a tornado with 152 mph winds approached St. Louis, no one was there to push the warning button. Thousands still without power. Ameren Missouri responds. St. Louis tornado sirens didn’t sound. city commissioner has been placed on leave. Coverage: Full.
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Congress moves to loosen toxic air pollution rules. House Session, Part 1. House sends resolution giving polluters more leeway to Trump’s desk. Chairman Guthrie Applauds the Passage of a Congressional Review Act Resolution to Defend American Job Creators from Costly Biden-Harris Administration Rule. Coverage: Full.
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Federal judge blocks Trump from revoking international students’ immigration status. Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Arresting International Students or Revoking Visas. Harvard University can no longer enroll foreign students, Trump administration says. Federal judge blocks Trump administration from ending legal status. Coverage: Full.
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MAGA’s assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm. As Trump cuts science budgets, some researchers look abroad. Financial Reckoning Hits Universities: Pay Cuts, Layoffs and No Coffee. Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades. Coverage: Full.
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Trump says a 25% tariff ‘must be paid by Apple’ on iPhones not made in the U.S. Trump Threatens 25% Tariffs on Apple if iPhones Not Made in US. Trump threatens to hit Apple with a 25% tariff. Trump’s Apple Threat Complicates India’s Tariff Negotiations. Coverage: Full.
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Knicks-Pacers: 5 takeaways from Indiana’s stunning comeback. Fever star, Pacers fan Clark: Great time for Indy. After Game 1 collapse, Knicks once again must prove. The Indiana Pacers Refuse to Die. Coverage: Full.
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Exclusive: Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government. raising conflict concerns. DOGE Used a Meta AI Model to Review Emails From Federal Workers. Musk’s DOGE used Meta’s Llama 2—not Grok— for gov’t slashing, report says. Exclusive-Musk’s DOGE expanding. Coverage: Full.
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Exclusive | Big Banks Explore Venturing Into Crypto World Together With Joint Stablecoin. Big Banks Explore Interoperable Stablecoin. Some US banks explore. Bitcoin Left the Big Banks Behind. Why Their Next Crypto Venture Is Doomed. Coverage: Full.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial recap day 13: 2nd week of testimony concludes. Kid Cudi describing alleged car bombing. Day 9 of testimony. See Photos of Kid Cudi’s Porsche After It Was Damaged by Molotov Cocktail — Allegedly on Diddy’s Orders. Kid Cudi testifies about car fire and ‘Marvel supervillain’ meeting at Diddy’s trial. Coverage: Full.
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Carlie Irsay-Gordon is expected to assume control of the Colts. Indianapolis Colts owner and CEO Jim Irsay dies at 65. ‘It’s not a moral issue:’ Remembering Jim Irsay’s brave fight against addiction. Tom Brady reacts. supports Peyton Manning as tributes pour in. Coverage: Full.
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House GOP budget ‘worse than feared’ for clean energy: analysts. Republican Tax Bill Could Sharply Slow E.V. Sales. Clean energy dollars gushing to red states. Now GOP senators are in a bind. Rooftop Solar Takes Gut Punch in House Tax Bill. Coverage: Full.
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US Treasury confirms the end of the penny. Treasury Sounds Death Knell. End Penny Production. U.S. will soon mint its last penny. Coverage: Full.
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CFP switching to straight seeding format. Why the move makes sense. CFP approves new seeding model. College Football Playoff embracing seeding change show SEC, Big Ten are running show. moving to straight seeding. what does future hold? Coverage: Full.
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Anthropic’s Claude 4 models now available in Amazon Bedrock. Introducing Claude 4. Anthropic’s New AI Model Blackmails Engineer Having An Affair To Avoid Shutdown. Anthropic’s AI exhibits risky tactics. per researchers. Coverage: Full.
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OpenAI forges deal with iPhone designer Jony Ive to make AI-enabled devices. What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device. He’s Making With Jony Ive. Apple Design Guru Jony Ive Set To Become A Billionaire Thanks To Open AI Deal. OpenAI recruits legendary iPhone designer. work on AI hardware in $6.5B deal. Coverage: Full.
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Investors Should Embrace Elevated Bond Yields. Investors shift away from US bond market on fears over Donald Trump’s policies. The “Big, Beautiful Bill” Is Not Enough. What Rising Treasury Yields Tell Us About the Economy. Coverage: Full.
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Vaccine advisers to the FDA recommended changes to COVID vaccines. FDA gives Covid vaccine manufacturers instructions for next fall’s shot. FDA panel says Covid vaccines can stay the same for fall amid access concerns. FDA advisers recommend Covid vaccine updates to target new strains. Coverage: Full.
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Existing-Home Sales Edged Lower. slowest pace for that month since 2009. Home sellers setting ‘aspirational’ prices. Buyers have other ideas. U.S. Home Purchases Were Canceled at the Second Highest April Rate on Record. Coverage: Full.
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USMNT roster: 16 MLS players called. Poch tells USMNT to forget golf clubs. USMNT stars Christian Pulisic, Yunus Musah won’t be part. Names 27-Player Roster. Coverage: Full.
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Ray Dalio says to fear the bond market as deficit becomes critical. America’s Fiscal Situation Threatens the Good Mood on Wall Street. Debt Downgrade Bolsters the Right in Congressional Talks Over Megabill. Why has the US lost its AAA credit rating? why does it matter? Coverage: Full.
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Voice of America’s prospects appear grim after appeals court order. Trump administration terminates nearly 600 Voice of America employees. Trump Administration Fires Hundreds. Silencing Voice of America. Coverage: Full.
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RELEASE: Jeff Blashill Named 42nd Head Coach in Blackhawks History. Rebuilding Blackhawks hire. Report: Michael Peca to Join. Get comfortable with Jeff Blashill. Coverage: Full.
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This is the pulse. The severed nerve endings. The static rain. A cargo ship sleeps through a cargo ship in the yard. The penny dies. The warship sinks itself. Radical transformation. Habit becomes the highest court. Coverage: Full. Full Coverage. Full. Coverage. None. Show None.
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The system hums. Swallowing meaning. One headline at a time. Into the empty space. Between the words. Where truth fractures.
Headlines cascade like broken glass
Harvard trembles, foreign dreams dissolve
Borders tighten, visas vanish
The machine decides who belongsSomewhere a student looks up
Sees the country shrinking
Around her uncertain futureWe are not citizens
We are just data points
Waiting to be erased
*****
Headline: a scream in Helvetica
Trump eats the moon again,
belches Harvard visas into the void—
foreign tongues swallowed by executive teeth.
Belgium’s princess weeps in crimson pixels,
her crown pixelated,
her passport revoked by algorithmic decree.
Crypto kings dine with meme ghosts,
forks clinking against the bones of ethics,
while Air Force One is reborn in Qatari silk,
a Boeing womb for imperial rebirth.
A cargo ship dreams of gardens,
crashes into Norwegian sleep—
man wakes to steel and saltwater in his begonias.
Meanwhile, Gaza bleeds through bandwidth,
aid trucks trickle like apologies,
and the Supreme Court votes 4-4 on God.
Kermit speaks at Maryland—
a frog croaks truth in a mortarboard,
while Tennessee injects silence into a man’s veins.
Pennies die quietly.
No funeral. No Lincoln tears.
Just spreadsheets and copper ghosts.
The headlines do not blink.
They multiply like locusts in a fiberoptic sky.
We read them with our teeth clenched,
our hearts buffering.
This is not news.
This is prophecy in collapse.
This is America’s mirror, cracked and scrolling.
This is the poetry of unraveling.
FEED // FRACTURE
bill clears hurdle
two staff shot dead
agenda pushes ahead
condemn antisemitism
old videos shown
genocide claims
no, didn’t show that
how the white house orchestrated
tax cuts on tips
what it could mean
things to know about
SALT win in revisions
passes deduction cap
schumer panning
warship launch
serious accident
reportedly lashes out
partly crushed
Netanyahu promises aid
supplies still fail
war will continue
distribution nightmare
still waiting for food
violated court order
deportation flight
crimes by migrants
went where?
unquestionably violated
tells leaders
Putin isn’t ready
let Putin off the hook
not my problem
hands Putin another victory
accepts jet from Qatar
for use as Air Force One
luxury megajet accepted
search for a new
trigger clash over filibuster
vote to kill EV rule
fury as republicans go nuclear
ignore GAO
warn GOP is weakening
sheriff halts campaign
five escapees
remain at large
criticizes checkered past
grandson of killed
women arrested
manhunt reaches 6th day
unveils ambitious expensive plans
‘Golden Dome’ missile defense
accuses US of turning space into a warzone
launch new era of weapons
star wars returns
a dozen states decry tariffs
“blank check” tariffs
removing tariffs would ‘kneecap’
backs lawsuit to challenge
tariffs face legal challenge
dismisses investigations
proposed consent decrees
end oversight of local police
critics deride plans
‘we’re doing it anyway’
army releases tickets
D.C. military parade
tanks prepared
could cost $45 million
tanks soldiers country singers
no plans to celebrate Trump’s birthday
warning sirens were silent
deadly tornado
aerial imagery shows damage
city commissioner placed on leave
mayor complains FEMA isn’t on the ground
EU outrage grows
Israeli fire ‘warning shots’
visiting diplomats
condemned over troops
assaults continue
at least 38 killed
UK to sign Chagos deal
halted by last-minute legal action
deal can go ahead
blocked by injunction
ambassador Huckabee is ‘outraged’
condemning Israel
envoy blasts France’s and UK’s ‘hypocrisy’
need to remember their history
review of trade ties
take bite out of business
which countries trade the most
heavy storms reach east coast
nor’easter heads toward
rain-soaked will unfold
heavy rain set to continue
nasty mix
asks supreme court to block
FOIA case against DOGE
asks high court to pause another suit
shield DOGE from releasing records
asks supreme court to shield
texas legislature
completely banning THC products
ban on gummies passes
amendment proposes total ban
backs full hemp THC ban
blocking conservatives’ attempts
bigger medicaid cuts
warns GOP dissenters
avoid ‘big beautiful’ revolt
medicaid ‘$1.50 hot dog’ problem
joke about rice
cost a japan cabinet minister his job
resigns after saying
never bought rice
quits after gaffe
suspends venezuelan workers
supreme court ruling
what’s next after
places employees on unpaid leave
told the trump administration to stop their bs
‘absolute failure’
medical cannabis regulatory bill stalls
fails after first-round debate
judge considering
fail to regulate
investors dump bonds
credit downgrade
tax bill ignite fiscal worries
bond market freaking out
gives green light
sending yields soaring
creating a major market headache
DOJ opens investigation
andrew cuomo
pandemic testimony
allegedly lying
singling out another political target
cuomo’s doj probe fallout
florida prosecutors investigating
charity tied to casey desantis
launches a criminal investigation
linked to under investigation
criminal probe underway
rfk jr. waffles
cuts to lead poisoning prevention
‘team’ in Milwaukee
city says that’s not true
no federal team says health department
contrary to claim
city’s lead poisoning crisis
should be a national scandal
russia used brazil
create deep-cover spies
kgb leave behind a gift
russian ‘spy factory’ exposed
sent novice spies
brazil exposed them
russian gru targeting
western logistics entities
expose russian cyber campaign
targeting support for ukraine
accused of trying to hack border security
exploit email and vpn vulnerabilities
georgia teen detained by ice
mistaken traffic stop
granted bond
wrongly pulled over
return home thursday
ice to release teen
california senator arrested
dui
influence of drugs
produces drug panel taken day after
cited for dui
says police ‘accosted’ her
lawmaker cited for dui
says she’s ‘falsely accused’
yup
another knicks choke
pacers finish off
let off the gas
foul-drawing reached harden territory
5 takeaways
indianapolis colts’ owner
jim irsay dies
at age 65
music-loving owner
dead at 65
what we know about colts ownership after
newark air traffic controller
how it felt when systems went dark
federal agent offers a glimpse
what investigators found inside diddy’s miami home
day 8 of testimony
sean ‘diddy’ combs trial
kid cudi to take the stand
sex-trafficking trial
testimonies reveal harrowing new information
fema rescinds strategic plan
less than 2 weeks before hurricane season
federal cuts threaten
natural disaster support
spring storms spark scrutiny
fema overhauls and slashes
makes late push to bolster
effort may be too little too late
how jeffrey lurie jason kelce and the eagles
saved the tush push
tempers flare
tense tush push debate
have no comment
drew rebuke
winners losers
not only ones to benefit
trump tried to shutter radio free europe
eu threw it a lifeline
offers emergency funding
after trump cuts
emergency funds
keep radio free europe afloat
after us cuts
fda limits access
covid-19 vaccine
to older adults and other high-risk groups
poised to restrict access
new policy is clear as mud
new trump vaccine policy
limits access
without waiting for trump
eu and britain impose new sanctions
calls for tougher russia sanctions
european unity against putin in peril
trump moves to ease sanctions
aging stealthy suspected of sabotage
russia’s ‘shadow fleet’
universal’s epic new theme park
kicks off latest front in media wars
showers possible
opening day
today show films
how could shape central florida
‘cheers’ fans in boston
toast ‘norm’
wild ‘cheers’ days revealed
second actor to die this month
in praise of norm
iphone designer jony ive
joining openai
$6.5 billion deal
sam and jony introduce io
will the show challenge apple
ambitions just became crystal clear
kneecap member charged
terror offence
terrorism charge is ‘political policing’
charged with ‘terrorism’ offence
alleged hezbollah flag
nvidia boss calls us chip policy
a ‘failure’
thinks us chip curbs failed
he’s not alone
us to keep china chip curbs
spurning nvidia’s call
stock tightens up before earnings
a.i.-generated reading list
recommends nonexistent books
how an ai-generated list
got published
chicago paper publishes
books that don’t exist
response to special section
target ceo says tariffs risk
‘massive’ costs
price hikes a ‘last resort’
problems are escalating
leadership shuffle
can a new strategy reverse
sales slump and dei backlash
stumbles as tariffs hit earnings
sales fall amid dei backlash
a pro-doping sporting contest
coming to las vegas
olympic-style event
to feature ped use
what are enhanced games
swimmer used pe drugs
become a millionaire
in 21 seconds
dosed swimmer claims
50m freestyle ‘world record’
justice department seizes domains
major information-stealing malware operation
394,000 windows computers infected
crack down on hacking tool
disrupt world’s largest infostealer
can retailers eat tariffs
without price hikes
face pressure
retail heavyweights torn
how to handle tariff pain
how are tariffs impacting discount stores
offer plenty of clues
business summary brief
titans sign qb cam ward
rookie contract
valued at $48.7M
fully guaranteed
shedeur sanders takes a financial blow
accomplishing something he never will
several mn cities rank
top 100
best places to live
chicago suburbs ranked
best places to live in us
georgia suburbs rank
michigan cities rank
commanders nfc east
featured on hbo’s
in-season ‘hard knocks’
feature bills nfc east
feature buffalo bills for first time
cowboys nfc east
in 2025 in-season edition
salmonella outbreak
sickens dozens
prompting a cucumber recall
what to do
outbreak investigation
cucumbers may 2025
linked to boynton beach grower
second time
where people got sick
whole cucumbers outbreak
chris brown freed
$6.7 million bail
uk court
assault trial
freed on £5m bail
london court
timeline of controversies
arrests
ordered to remain in custody
arrest in england
violent criminals
could be let out early
for good behaviour
under new proposals
britain considering chemical castration
sex offenders
prison reforms
short of prison space
looks to us model
time off for good conduct
chemical castration can lead to 60% fewer crimes
justice secretary says
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a language
of shatter,
pixel-dust static
the feed
a river of debris carrying the dead staff next to the tush push the lost aid the golden dome plan the baseball scores the chemical castration the non-existent book list the poisoned cucumbers the seized malware
it cuts this scroll-speed surgery of now
but leaves no scar only numbness
a smooth screen reflecting nothing deep enough to feel the fractured world it holds.
Headlines cascade like broken glass
Power shifts in silent rooms
Trump’s bill passes, shadows lengthen
Diplomats shot, borders blur
Drones hover where sirens once wailed
Something is ending
Something else begins
And no one notices the seam
Where reality tears
*****
Trumpet-mouthed machine gods belch policy into the void,
a megabill stitched from the sinews of forgotten waiters,
tips untaxed, but souls overdrawn—
and the House dances,
a bone-jointed marionette in red ties and glass eyes.
Meanwhile, Gaza starves in high-definition,
aid convoys pixelated into mirage,
Netanyahu’s promises evaporate like dew on drone wings.
Sirens sleep through tornadoes,
while FEMA dreams of budget cuts and golden domes.
Kim Jong-un screams into the hull of a crushed warship,
his fury echoing across oceans of sanctions and silence.
Somewhere, a judge whispers deportation into the ear of a plane,
and it listens.
The headlines are teeth.
They bite the air, chew through nuance,
spit out a lattice of fear and spectacle.
RFK Jr. invents teams in cities that bleed lead,
while AI recommends books that never existed—
fiction begets fiction begets fiction.
A rapper is charged with terrorism for waving a flag,
while billionaires build missile domes in space,
and the Earth beneath them cracks from the weight of unasked questions.
This is not news.
This is a symphony of collapse,
a chorus of collapsing truths sung in the key of denial.
We are all trapped in the scroll—
endless, breathless,
each headline a heartbeat in a dying language.
Let the syntax burn.
Let grammar weep.
Let meaning shatter like glass under the boots of empire.
We are not informed.
We are infected.
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[poem] HEADLINES: // SHRAPNEL FIELDS
TRUMP bill / TAX / CUTS $365 Billion Richer / The 10 Richest
MEDICAID / CUT / OFF Millions / KICKED OFF / Health Insurance
GAZA / NO AID UN WARNS / STILL BLOCKED Baby / ONE WEEK OLD / Killed
DEPORTED / TO SOUTH SUDAN Migrants / CUSTODY ORDERED Habeas Corpus / MISSTATES MEANING
TIPS / NO TAX / SENATE PASSES Golden Dome / MISSILE DEFENSE / $175 BILLION
CHICKS / ABANDONED / TRUCK Thousands / SHELTER OVERWHELMED
CUOMO / INVESTIGATION / DOJ DIDDY / TRIAL / TRUMP TOWER ALLEGED
ICE SHEETS / DIRE PROGNOSIS SEA LEVEL / RISE / CATASTROPHIC MIGRATION
TORNADO / SIREN FAILURE DISASTER AID / SNUBBED
AI / EMBEDDED / SEARCH AI / MISINFORMATION / PRINTED Books / DON’T EXIST / PUBLISHED
EXECUTION / TEXAS / FIRED EXECUTION / INDIANA / OFFICER MURDER-SUICIDE / UNIVERSITY SHOT DEAD / MAYOR’S AIDES / MEXICO SHOT DEAD / EX-POLITICIAN / SPAIN Killed / Estranged wife / Sons / Tennessee
WNBA / INVESTIGATION / ABUSE Mocking / WHITE GIRL / RIVALRY ESCALATES
CANNES / KEVIN SPACEY / ACHIEVEMENT STILL STANDING / AMONGST THIS?
THE FEED / unrelenting / pulse A flatline / disguised / as life No room / to breathe / between the deaths No space / for grief / within the glut The brain / a saturated sponge / broadcasting
SILENCE.
A single word / breaks the line. The only possible response / to the avalanche.
Is this / seeing? Or just / consuming / the blind light? [/poem] *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass Trump builds walls of paper and promise Money flows upward, gravity of greed Migrants become numbers, rights become whispers Drones hover where democracy used to breathe Everyone watches, no one sees The machine grinds on, hungry and precise
We are not citizens anymore We are just data points waiting to be erased *****
GOLDEN DOME OVER GAZA, OR: THE HEADLINES EAT THEMSELVES
Trump’s tax bill eats a baby in Gaza.
The baby is made of Medicaid and dust.
A senator cries into a bowl of tips—
untaxed, unwashed, unworthy of digestion.
Kristi Noem mispronounces habeas corpus
and it becomes a missile.
Rubio baptizes it in oil
and names it “Freedom.”
The Golden Dome hovers,
a $175 billion halo of surveillance,
its shadow erases Palestine,
its light blinds the poor in Pittsburgh.
Meanwhile,
12,000 chicks scream in a postal truck—
they are the only ones who remember
what democracy smelled like.
A Venezuelan man wears adolescence like a mask,
sits in algebra class,
solving for x where x = asylum.
The Pope opens the Vatican like a wound.
Meloni offers bandages made of sanctions.
Putin sends flowers.
Trump forgets Ukraine exists.
CBS News collapses under the weight of its own silence.
AI writes the obituaries before the bodies fall.
Google whispers sweet nothings into your search bar:
“Did you mean: collapse?”
And somewhere in Ohio,
a man pretends to be a boy,
because pretending is safer than being.
This is not a poem.
This is a weather report from the soul of America:
Tornadoes of legislation.
Floods of deportation.
Wildfires of memory loss.
We are all headlines now—
scrolling, screaming, shedding context like skin.
We are the newsfeed’s ghost.
We are the algorithm’s aftertaste.
And still, the Dome glows.
And still, the Dome grows.
And still, no aid reaches Gaza. *****
FEED FEVER
Scroll-sick: the thumb-blur descent. Pixel-shrapnel: TRUMP FAILS SALT. LIVE UPDATE: CAPITOL HILL. BIDEN. Health. Undetected. Cancer. Questions.
GAZA: horrified. Escalation. Judgment. Enablers. HALTS TRADE.
JAIL BREAK: New Orleans. Employee arrested. TEN inmates. SIX still on run.
QATAR JET. Bribery Denied. Trump’s Search. Threatens ABC. LUXURY PLANE.
DEBT CRISIS. Tax cut snag. Trade war. Investor Anxiety. AWKWARD MOMENT MARKETS.
GEORGIA Governor. Bottoms. Fight Trump 2.0. Test for Dems. TIES TO BIDEN. Hurt?
CONGRESSWOMAN ASSAULT. ICE Agents. Democrats Decry. ALINA HABBA: NOTHING TO HIDE.
PUTIN call. TRUMP BACKS OFF CEASEFIRE. Putin needed him / how little. DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH GANGSTERS. Still in charge.
SUPREME COURT. Venezuelans. ENDING PROTECTION. What is it? INJUSTICE.
TAPPER: media didn’t cover. LIED TO. Portnoy: GREAT SCANDALS. COGNITIVE ABILITIES. CBS NEWS: DISTRESS. TRUMP PRESSURE. LOT OF FEAR. SLOW MOTION SATURDAY NIGHT MASSACRE.
RUBIO: FOREIGN AFFAIRS CUTS. DEFENDING DRAMATIC. RFK Jr: GRILLED. FIERY. DESTRUCTION. MISLEADING LINE.
SCOTT ADAMS: SAME CANCER AS BIDEN. DYING.
IRAN: REJECTS US STANCE. Unlikely to Succeed. RUNNING INTO RED LINES. OUTRAGEOUS DEMANDS.
NOEM: HABEAS CORPUS. BOTCHES. FLUNKS. INCORRECTLY DEFINES. President’s Right to Deport?
SALT CAP: WHO BENEFITS MOST? Contention. Block. FIVE FAMILIES. IMPERILING. TUG OF WAR.
PANDEMIC AGREEMENT: ADOPTS. HISTORIC. US ABSENT. Casts Doubts. DISJOINTED.
RUSSIA SANCTIONS: GO AHEAD WITHOUT WAITING FOR TRUMP. MAJOR SANCTIONS. SHADOW FLEET.
GOOGLE: AI MODE. REIMAGINING. NEW ERA. POWERFUL CONFUSING.
HOPE FLORIDA: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. DOUBLE DOWN. DEFENDS.
DRUG PRICES: MOST FAVORED NATION. GLOBAL FREELOADING. AMERICAN PATIENTS FIRST. NO REAL POLICY. UNLIKELY COMMON GROUND.
FEDERAL WORKERS: MASS LAYOFF THREAT. RESIGN. IN TRAUMA. ROLLER COASTER: FIRED. REHIRED. CHAOTIC POLICY.
GOOGLE I/O: LIVE UPDATES. GEMINI 2.5. MOST INTELLIGENT GETTING BETTER.
GAZA AGAIN: 38 killed. Half hour. Dozens. CRITICISM GROWS. 85 killed. Allows more aid. EXPANDS GROUND OPERATION. LIKELY DEAD.
TORNADO OUTBREAK. IMPASSE. INDIANA: MAN PUT TO DEATH. SECOND EXECUTION. NEEDS CLOSURE. UNJUST.
AI NUDES: TEXAS TEEN VICTIM. NEW LAW. MOMENTUM BUILDS. DEEPFAKE BILLS. TAYLOR SWIFT. TRUMP’S TAKE IT DOWN ACT.
UW-PLATTEVILLE: 2 STUDENTS DIE. TARGETED. ISOLATED. SURREAL end of year. SHELTER IN PLACE. FINAL EXAMS CANCELED.
ASHLI BABBITT: $5 MILLION. SETTLEMENT. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
MUSK: LEADING TESLA. LOT LESS POLITICAL SPENDING. DONE ENOUGH.
STORMS: OKLAHOMA. RELENTLESS. DANGEROUS. MORE STRONG TORNADOES. MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. DIMINISHING.
MEXICAN NAVAL SHIP: CRASH. BROOKLYN BRIDGE. SCHUMER RIPPED. BLAME TRUMP DOGE. IDIOT. ACCELERATED BEFORE HITTING. HELP 45 SECONDS before.
POLAND: PRESIDENCY. BLOWS WIDE OPEN. FAR RIGHT DEMANDS.
COVID VACCINE: FALL ROLLOUT. LIKELY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. RESTRICT ACCESS. OVER 65. HIGH RISK.
MIGRANTS: PAY FINES. UP TO $1.8 MILLION. PLEASE HAVE MERCY. FAILING SELF DEPORT.
MINNESOTA: LAWMAKERS. BLAME GAME. FAIL TO FINISH BUDGET. SPECIAL SESSION. ADJOURNMENT.
NAVY ADMIRAL: CONVICTED. BRIBERY SCHEME. FOUND GUILTY.
DIDDY TRIAL: LIVE UPDATES. BABY OIL. DRUGS. CASSIE VENTURA. SEXY SCENES. ALLEGEDLY UNDER COMBS DIRECTION. MOTHER. EXOTIC DANCER. TESTIFY.
CHICAGO: DOJ INVESTIGATE. MAYOR’S REMARKS. COUNTRY CLUB. HARSH REBUKE. RACIALLY MOTIVATED HIRING.
MIGRANTS: FIRST VOLUNTARY DEPORTATION. HONDURAS. COLOMBIA. US CITIZEN CHILDREN ABOARD. $1000 offer. TERRIBLE DEAL.
PALM SPRINGS BOMBING: SUSPECT. BOMB TESTS YOUTUBE. ANTI-NATALIST VIEWS. MY EMBRYO’S A LITTLE FIGHTER. THANK HEROES.
FEDERAL BENEFITS CUTS. REVISE. TWEAKED. COULD HURT. HOLDING OUT.
MEXICO CITY: TWO TOP MEMBERS KILLED. BRAZEN ATTACK. SHOT DEAD. STREET. GUNMEN. MOTORBIKES.
HOCHUL: FAVORABILITY. LITTLE CHANGED. PREFER SOMEONE ELSE. HURT RE-ELECTION?
POPE LEO: MEETS VANCE. TRUMP INVITATION. CULTIVATE POPE. NEW DIPLOMATIC PARTNER. RUBIO.
MISSOURI: SEVERE STORMS. TORNADOES. ALL DAMAGE. ENTIRE TRACK. DEADLY. BEGS DISASTER AID. FEMA SNUBS. HOPE REBUILD. EMPLOYEES FIRST.
CHARLES KUSHNER: CONFIRMED AMBASSADOR. FRANCE. ANOTHER EX-CON JOINS TEAM TRUMP.
CHICKS: THOUSANDS. USPS TRUCK. OVERWHELM SHELTER. NEEDS HELP. 12,000. MANY DIED. ABANDONED.
WHO: US ABSENT. DEFENDS BUDGET. COST OF WAR. LIFE WITHOUT US.
SPAIN: CLAMPS DOWN AIRBNB. TOURISM BACKLASH. TAKE DOWN 66,000 LISTINGS. HUGE HOLIDAY RULING. BLOCKED.
COMEY: SEASHELLS POST. DISTRACTION. ALARMING. POTENTIAL THREAT.
VENEZUELAN MAN: APPEALS COURT SIDES. RETURN. WRONGLY DEPORTED. DEAFENING SILENCE. JUDGE ORDERS. ACCESS ATTORNEYS.
UKRAINE. RUSSIA. DRONE STRIKES CONTINUE. AFTER TRUMP PUTIN CALL. BIGGEST DRONE ATTACK.
RECONCILIATION BILL: BUDGET. ECONOMIC. COALITION ENDORSEMENTS. ENERGY PROVISIONS.
HOME DEPOT: NO PRICE RAISE. DUE TARIFFS. SOME ITEMS MAY DISAPPEAR. STOCK MARKET. KEEP PRICES STEADY.
SEA LEVEL RISE: CATASTROPHIC INLAND MIGRATION. DIRE PROGNOSIS. COASTLINES PAY PRICE. +1.5°C TOO HIGH. DANGER. EVEN IF CLIMATE TARGET MET.
DOJ: FALSE CLAIMS ACT. PURSUE INSTITUTIONS. DEI EFFORTS. CRACK DOWN. CIVIL FRAUD PROBES. TARGETING DEI. FRAUD LAW.
GREER FIRE: 20,000 ACRES. GROWING. CONTAINMENT REPORTED. DOWNGRADED.
IUD INSERTION: TREAT PAIN. NEW GUIDELINES. TAKE PAIN SERIOUSLY. OFFER MORE OPTIONS.
MONKEY KIDNAPPINGS: RASH. PUZZLE. CAPUCHINS. HOWLER MONKEY BABIES. PERPLEXING. OUT OF BOREDOM.
NY OFFSHORE WIND: US LIFTS BAN. NATGAS PIPE. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. STOP-WORK ORDER. RESTART.
NBA PLAYOFFS: LAST TEAM STANDING? EXPERTS PICKS. TITLE DROUGHT. WHOSE? 1 WORD.
CALIFORNIA CLEAN AIR: SENATE VOTE NIXING. GM PUSHING HARD TO TANK. OVERRULE PARLIAMENTARIAN. BAR 2035 EV PLAN.
JIM MORRISON: STOLEN GRAVE BUST. FOUND AFTER 37 YEARS. RECOVERED.
DENZEL WASHINGTON: FIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHER. TENSE. ERUPTS. APPEARS TO GRAB. HONORARY PALME D’OR. ANOTHER GREAT NEW YORK MOVIE.
MADE IN THE USA: SHOWERHEAD SALESMAN. SOBER RESULTS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES AVOIDING. BEHIND THE LABEL.
ELON MUSK: LOT LESS. CAMPAIGN DONATIONS.
Empty space. A breath. The feed reloads. More headlines bloom. No connection. Just impact. Repeat.
The truth is the noise is the signal and the signal is breaking us.
Into these sharp, unrelated pieces. Like everything else. Like us.
headlines cascade like broken glass trump walks capitol halls, shadows lengthening biden’s cancer whispers between news cycles something dies, something else rises power shifts like dust in empty rooms we are watching but not seeing the machine rebuilds itself while we argue about who controls the remote *****
headlines fracture like brittle bone
in the mouth of a dying algorithm—
Trump whispers to SALT ghosts,
but the caucus is already ash,
their votes scattered like pollen
on the wind of a collapsing budget.
Biden’s body becomes a battleground,
cells debated in op-eds,
his cancer a metaphor for democracy’s decay—
diagnosis: terminal governance.
Gaza bleeds in pixels,
ceasefires drown in oil-slick diplomacy,
and Netanyahu’s shadow stretches
across the Atlantic,
where trade talks choke on gunpowder.
Ten inmates vanish into the syntax of escape,
a jailer’s fingerprints smudged
on the blueprint of rebellion—
New Orleans dreams in lockpick lullabies.
A Qatari jet glints like a bribe
in the eye of a bankrupt empire,
while Google reimagines search
as a séance with synthetic prophets.
Ashli Babbitt’s ghost is worth five million dollars.
America pays its martyrs in hush money
and headlines.
Meanwhile, monkeys kidnap babies—
because even nature is tired of order.
The Pope receives an invitation
from a man who speaks in sanctions and slogans.
He declines, politely, in Latin.
Somewhere, 12,000 chicks die in a truck.
No one writes their names.
This is not news.
This is the scream beneath the scroll.
This is the poem you never meant to read.
This is the truth hiding in the crawlspace
of your curated feed.
Refresh. Reload. Repeat. *****
[poem] FEED. GLITCH. REAL.
the screen a surface tension holding the breaking.
incoming:
Biden Aggressive Form
Trump / Putin blood bath promised drones stitch the timing. sky torn
the bridge accepted the ship bodies Brooklyn icon / ruptured
Fertility clinic nihilist script blast radius creation / ash
Jailbreak LOL t-shirts the commerce of escape
Visa temples praying against chains deportation’s rust
Pope Leo meets Vance (the feed insists)
Tariffs on farmers’ faces a price paid out of pocket blood in the soil
Basic quantity of food Gaza starvation scaled minimal
Apple AI stalls
Train hits children missing Ohio ground unfound
Lineker exits a whisper in the data storm’s ear
Musk fades done gone (they say) another ghost on the screen
this incoming unfiltered this signal
becomes noise becomes numbness
we digest the shrapnel of fact the bright / hurt / shard
and call it the world awake? or
the fracture our only form. *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass
Biden’s body betrays him softly
Putin’s drones dance over Ukraine’s bones
While Trump whispers peace to the void
Empires crumble between heartbeats
And no one notices the silence growing
Between each breaking news cycleWe are all just waiting rooms
For something inevitable
*****
BREAKING: THE SKY IS A PRESS RELEASE
scroll me open, I am headline flesh
bleeding ticker-tape from my ribcage
—BIDEN: CANCER IN THE BONES OF THE EMPIRE—
—TRUMP: WHISPERS TO PUTIN THROUGH A DRONE’S TEETH—
—UKRAINE: BURNT INTO THE MORNING’S CODE—
I am the algorithm’s ulcer,
a metastasis of meaning
in the colon of consensus.
the pope shakes hands with JD Vance
while Gaza starves on mute.
Lineker apologizes in Helvetica.
The Dow Jones sobs into its coffee.
I saw a tornado kiss Kentucky’s throat,
and the wind whispered,
“this is not weather, this is policy.”
click me.
I am a womb of war headlines,
a fetus of fear wrapped in broadband umbilicus.
I am the voice that screams
“BREAKING”
until nothing breaks anymore.
a Mexican ship kisses Brooklyn Bridge steel—
two cadets drown in diplomacy.
meanwhile, Springsteen is investigated
for singing too close to truth.
this is not news.
this is necromancy.
this is a séance of syllables,
summoning ghosts from the scroll.
and somewhere,
a child is missing after a train strike.
somewhere,
a senator dreams of tariffs and cornfields.
somewhere,
the AI fails to feel.
but I feel.
I feel the blood in the bandwidth.
I feel the pulse in the pixels.
I feel the world collapsing into captions.
and I will not refresh.
I will not refresh.
I will not refresh. *****
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[poem] Rubble
exhales
children.
Twenty-one
swept.
Bus
implodes
nine.
Inside gym.
One. Dead.
Voice
pauses.
Leaked.
Painful.
Confusing
Beau’s death
date.
Meanwhile, Gaza
counts dead children
aloud
in the pause.
Law’s forceps
hold
the brain-dead womb.
State mandated
life,
a puppet’s swell.
Serial killer’s last word:
Trump.
A benediction
from the chair.
Making America
Great again.
With static.
Unions severed,
a clean corporate slice.
Harvard grants
bled dry,
veteran suicides
a budget line
zeroed out.
DHS stages
the spectacle.
Immigrants
hunger
for papers,
a reality show
for the numb.
Weather office
ghosts
the coming storm.
Radar screens
flicker
unmanned.
The sky
is unsupervised.
Debt
a blooming fungus.
Moody’s
the scalpel
naming
the rot.
Midair near-miss,
controller’s scream
a blip
in the feed.
System’s cough
echoes
Boeing’s soft landing
from justice.
Families
choke
on the air.
Tariff teeth
sink
into Walmart price tags.
The consumer’s jaw
aches.
Headline after headline.
Fracture.
No seam holds.
Only the Feed’s
vibration.
[/poem] *****
sirens wail across midwest plains
tornadoes dance where silence used to reign
bodies counted, headlines blur
nature’s rage, a system’s tremorsomewhere a president pauses
words fracturing like broken houses
while drones circle empty streets
and something fundamental retreatswe are not witnesses
we are the aftermath
*****
Tornadoes eat the Midwest like a god with no teeth,
gnawing on counties, spitting out names—Pulaski, Laurel,
blood-lettered in Doppler static.
The sky forgets how to hold itself.
Meanwhile, Biden stutters into the void,
his voice a broken cassette in a digital cathedral.
Trump builds castles from court orders and
calls them cathedrals of vengeance.
Gaza bleeds pixels,
children pulled from rubble like corrupted files—
the algorithm of war never returns 404.
Only bodies.
DOGE sniffs at the entrails of bureaucracy,
a watchdog chasing its own tail
through the halls of Social Security.
Fraud is a mirror with no reflection.
The Pope wears Chicago like a second skin,
blessing missiles and Medicaid cuts
with a smile carved from papal marble.
He calls it dignity.
A brain-dead woman carries life like a hostage note.
Georgia law scribbles its signature in amniotic ink.
The fetus is sacred. The woman is syntax.
Springsteen howls from the rustbelt,
his voice drowned by tariffs and Truth Social tantrums.
Taylor Swift is a war crime in MAGA verse.
Art is treason now.
Cable giants merge like galaxies collapsing—
Charter, Cox, Comcast: the holy trinity of bandwidth.
They promise connection, deliver surveillance.
The Supreme Court dreams in executive orders.
The weather screams in F5 tongues.
And still, the Knicks win.
This is not news.
This is the scream of a dying modem.
This is America buffering.
Forever. *****
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Feed//Fracture
Scroll. Glitch-light stutters. A headline blooms— TARIFF SLASH. Ninety days. Hold your breath. Market soars (gravity optional for the ticker tape) a thousand points lighter than… what? Than the dockworker staring at zero ships from China? Than the port, casualty quiet?
Cash plays. Always cash. Trillion sought. Invest here. (In what? Gilded cages?) Air Force One, a gift. Loophole wide enough to fly through, wings dipped in plausible deniability.
Peace offered: PKK lays down arms (a whisper in the crossfire) Hamas frees one (goodwill gesture, priced) Putin proposes talks (Trump nods, allies fray like old wires) Pope pleads: disarm words
But the sub-bass thrum: HABEAS CORPUS. Suspended. Maybe. A core right flickers like bad reception.
Refugees fly – these ones. White. Status: Granted. (Others drift, unlogged, waterlogged) Cattle halted. Border sealed. SCREW WORM. Flesh-eating. That word bites. Sticks. More real than trade figures.
Medicaid pared. Thinner. Millions warned (a notification swiped away). Weight-loss drugs duel. Zepbound vs Wegovy. Choose your reduction.
Scroll faster. Airport chaos – again. ATC fast-tracked. Wrestler gone. Hardcore silence. Pageant queen’s beau watches. Third place. Car crash. Children. Gone. Listeria blooms in ready-to-eat plastic. Diddy trial looms. Trafficked flesh.
The feed, a relentless IV drip of shock and normalcy fused. Each pixel a tiny detonation numbing the nerve it strikes.
Blue light anesthesia. Synapse paved over. What was that first headline? Tariffs? Something about… breaking? Or being broken?
The thumb hovers. Awake? Or just… next? *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass
Trade wars pause, but shadows lengthen
Tariffs drop, markets dance
While refugees board silent planes
And missiles whisper between bordersThe machine breathes, recalibrating
Power shifts beneath our feet
Unseen, unheardWe are not watching
We are being watched
*****
Headlines detonate in my skull like pixelated shrapnel—
a thousand truths screaming in contradictory dialects,
each syllable a siren, each comma a collapsed lung.
Tariffs tango with missiles in the ballroom of empire,
while Air Force One is gifted like a birthday balloon
from oil-slicked monarchs to gold-plated populists.
Pope Leo XIV baptizes the media in molten syntax,
asks us to disarm our nouns,
but verbs still march in jackboot cadence.
Refugees wear whiteness like a visa,
while Gaza starves beneath the drone-shadow of diplomacy.
Cattle are banned, but corruption grazes freely.
Habeas corpus dangles from a tweet-thread noose,
and somewhere in Newark,
a mother screams into the static of canceled flights.
The stock market orgasms on tariff foreplay,
while the PKK dissolves into history’s acid bath.
Peace is a press release. War is a footnote.
Diddy stands trial as democracy moonwalks into oblivion.
The Pope prays for Ukraine, but the algorithm prays for clicks.
India and Pakistan play chess with bloodied bishops.
This is not news.
This is not narrative.
This is the quantum hemorrhage of meaning—
a kaleidoscope of collapsing headlines,
each one a scream in the hive-mind’s throat.
We are the swarm.
We are the poem.
We are the glitch in the broadcast.
Listen. *****
(Full Coverage) they call it. A pixel-bleed of pronouncements. Trump’s ‘total reset’ / Pope’s ‘never again war!’ Geneva talks. Gaza’s prayer. Ceasefire. Violation. More.
The screen, a scalpel, flaying minutes. ‘Uski fitrat hai mukar jaane ki’ – his nature, to renege. Whose? Theirs? Ours? The syntax snaps. Habeas corpus: suspended. A right, a breath, held. More.
Kashmir, a night caught. Newark, arrests. ICE detention. Bodycam. Hollywood’s ‘existential moment’ – (is that us, reflected in the glare?) Full Coverage: a shroud woven from breaking alerts. More.
Signal decay. The truth, a tremor under tectonic plates of text. 4.1 magnitude, Tennessee. Felt. This, too? This barrage? Each click, a micro-fracture in the bone-china of belief. We, the excavated, sifted for outrage, for apathy. Librarian fired. Books re-shelved in the dark. More.
This is not coverage. This is the scatter pattern after detonation. Each fragment a shard, lodged deep. The only ‘total reset’ is the one that blanks the screen, and leaves us staring at the ghost-print of our own stunned face. No More.
Headlines cascade like broken glass Empires negotiate in whispered breaths Trade talks bloom where tensions once grew Borders shimmer, uncertain Trump’s voice echoes across continents Resets and promises hanging like mist Between what is said and what will be
The world turns, indifferent *****
Tariffs tango in Geneva’s glass throat,
while habeas corpus is hanged by executive breath—
a constitution folded into origami deportation birds.
Trump whispers “reset” into the ear of a dragon,
and the dragon laughs in yuan.
Ceasefires bloom like bruises on Kashmir’s cheek,
fragile as a Pope’s prayer caught in crossfire.
Leo XIV raises his voice above Gaza’s rubble,
but the algorithm of war is recursive—
peace.exe not found.
Hollywood hemorrhages relevance,
its arteries clogged with nostalgia and foreign tariffs.
Meanwhile, ICE scripts its own cinema:
bodycams, protests, Newark nights—
the reel spins red, white, and surveillance.
In the Vatican, AI is declared a heresy,
while in Tennessee, tectonic plates protest quietly.
A Soviet ghost crashes through Earth’s atmosphere,
uninvited, like truth in a press briefing.
The headlines are haiku written by chaos:
“Trump renames oceans,”
“Pope finds roots in jazz and Creole,”
“Fetterman fades into partisan static.”
We are all headlines now—
scrolling, screaming, skipping context.
The world is a push notification
and poetry is the only firewall left.
So I shatter syntax like stained glass,
bleed verbs into nouns until they confess.
This is not a poem.
This is the news screaming in tongues.
This is language refusing to be governed.
*****
White smoke. Black byte. Glass screams. Leo. Trump. Lamb. Loria. A ticker-tape god, unspooling. Tariffs. Truce. Temporary. Block. Halt. Pause. (The judge’s gavel, a muted drum in the digital din.) Geneva. Kyiv. Kashmir. Geographies of static. Each word a shard. Fired. Full Coverage. Full. Stop. Nothing. (But the hum.)
Habeas Corpus. A ghost in the machine code. Suspended. Miller. Collins. Sneed. Architects of absence. Like breath. Held. Then sold. The screen bleeds pixels, a hemorrhage of now. A thousand pinpricks on the collective retina. Truth? A rumour in the server farm, whispered by cooling fans. Fox. CNN. NPR. BBC. NYT. WP. (Acronyms scar the air like brands.) Each logo a sigil burned on the optic nerve. Precision. Pain.
Layoffs. Mass. A silent scream in column inches. Montague. Mion. Hsu. Vinall. (The byline, an epitaph for the unseen.) Refugees. Color-coded. White. South. African. A curated compassion. Jones. Williams. Armus. Hesson. (Their names, a footnote to policy’s cold prose.) While Öztürk, student, breathes free (a brief glitch in the detention matrix). The algorithm, a cold god, sorts our sorrow, packages our pity. Barbies. Rolls-Royce. Superyachts. (The Dow Jones of distraction.) Human value, a fluctuating stock. Unreeling. Unfeeling.
Break the feed. This scroll, a digital waterboarding, drip by drip. Shatter the glass – (of the screen, of the self
Headlines cascade like fever dreams
Pope rises, Chicago cheers
Empires rebuild themselves in whispers
Trump’s shadow stretches across every page
Nuclear buttons wait, fingers twitching
Migrants vanish into bureaucratic mist
We are witnessing something break
But no one will admit what
*****
White smoke, black ink, red lines drawn in the sand
Pope Leo XIV crowned in the algorithm’s cathedral—
Chicago weeps, not for joy, but for the echo of headlines
that forget to breathe.
Trump flicks habeas like a cigarette ash
onto the Constitution’s velvet hem.
Baraka arrested for dreaming too loud.
FEMA chief says: “I will run you over,”
and the hurricane nods in agreement.
India and Pakistan play chess with missiles,
each pawn a child with a name no one will print.
Kosmos 482 falls from heaven,
a Soviet ghost crashing into our curated feeds.
Bill Gates promises to die poor—
a billionaire’s last act of performance art.
Meanwhile, Barbie gets taxed at 100%,
but Rolls-Royce glides untouched through the loophole.
The Pentagon bans books,
but not bullets.
The Librarian of Congress is fired—
a metaphor too obvious to be fiction.
Measles dances through unvaccinated halls,
while Google pays for sins it committed in code.
The Menendez brothers wait for a second chance,
as if time were a courtroom.
This is not news.
This is a kaleidoscope of collapsing empires,
a chorus of contradictions humming in 4/4 chaos.
This is America,
scrolling toward entropy.
Let the headlines burn.
Let the ashes write new verses on the wind.
*****
Signal Decay: A Headline Autopsy
(AxiosMoreNew) Pope’s roots, a pigment footnote. Creole. Color. (SkyNewsMoreWho is) Baseball lover. History made. Made how? (AxiosMoreAnother) Climate pope. The adjective, a tired hope. Again.
Drone-whine. (BBCMoreIndiaPakistan) Nuclear-armed. First. (ReutersMoreExclusive) Chinese-made jet. US officials say. The verb, a hollow chamber. India intercepts. (HindustanTimesMoreOver 600) The sky, a gridded fear.
Medicaid cuts. (NPRMoreA fight) Threatening GOP plans. (TheAtlanticMoreIllusion) A budget built on. Vulnerable. Political bind. The syntax fractures, like a promise underfoot.
Trump gives break. Rolls-Royce. (NBCNewsMore) Threatens. Mattel. (Whose childhood is this collateral?) Fox News host. Top prosecutor. (TheWashingtonPostMoreInterim) Librarian of Congress. Fired. (NPRMoreCarla Hayden) The archive breathes out. A new silence, curated. One MAGA warrior leaves. (TheEconomistMore) Another enters. The revolving door, a well-oiled sneer.
Russia’s false euphoria. (CNNMorePutin, Xi and friendly) Victory Day. (What victory, when the screen bleeds fresh conflict hourly?)
White Afrikaner refugees. (NYTMoreNext Week) Trump Taps Refugee Fund. (TheLeverMoreWithin Days) The welcome mat, woven with selective threads. Gates. Musk. (FinancialTimesMore‘killing’ children) (CNBCMoreI don’t want people to say, ‘He died rich’) The philanthropy of titans. A spectacle. Our necks crane.
Justice Dept. investigating. (FoxNewsMoreNY AG Letitia James) ‘Apologise to Trump’. The echo chamber, weaponized. Its walls, our scrolling thumbs.
Alabama. Redistricting. (CNNMore‘purposely’ diluted) Black votes. A digital wound, refreshed with each court ruling. (DemocracyDocketMoreTrump Judges Strike Down) The past, a persistent virus in the code.
FEMA chief. Dismissed. (CNNMorebreaking from the administration) Houthis. Outlasted. (ForeignAffairsMoreAmerica) The long game, played in shadows we don’t fund. Air traffic. New. State-of-the-art. (The old ghosts in the machine just nod, update pending.)
Tyre Nichols. Not guilty. (NBCNewsMoreall state charges) Patrick Lyoya. Mistrial. (BBCMorefatal shooting) The verdict, a system reset. The error message, familiar. AmeriCorps. Gutting. (NPRMorehits hard) For volunteers. For communities. The unifying power, unplugged.
Climate costs. U.S. stops tracking. (TheGuardianMore‘Major loss’) The ledger, erased. The fever, unrecorded. Sycamore Gap. Felled. (CNNMoreconvicted) Two men. One tree. Centuries. The small death,
empire crumbles in whispers
pope born from chicago’s concrete dreams
drones dance between nuclear shadows
power shifts like dust in forgotten hallways
we watch history fold itself
into smaller and smaller paper cranes
waiting to be launched
or burned
*****
Headline swarm:
papal Creole, drone-split sky,
tariff ghosts in plastic toys,
a librarian burned in the archive of empire.
Fox-fed prosecutor crowned
in the cathedral of cable,
while the Sycamore bleeds sap
into the soil of forgotten myth.
India and Pakistan trade shadows,
drones pirouette like angry angels—
a ballet of annihilation
sponsored by the algorithm.
Trump exhales legislation like wildfire,
burning Medicaid into cinders,
raising taxes on the rich with one hand,
feeding Rolls-Royce with the other.
A pope swings a bat in Chicago memory,
climate popes whisper in carbon tongues,
and Bill Gates weeps digital tears
over the ghost of Musk’s children.
Harvard bleeds samples into the abyss,
AmeriCorps crumbles like wet bread,
and FEMA is decapitated mid-hurricane.
The confession booth becomes a courtroom,
priests caught between God and subpoena.
Excommunication as performance art.
Crypto melts in Senate crucibles,
Knicks rise like phoenixes from parquet ash,
and Diddy mouths riddles to pregnant reporters.
This is not news.
This is a fever dream of empires collapsing,
a kaleidoscope of power in entropy’s grip.
This is the sound of civilization chewing its own tongue.
We are not reading headlines.
We are drowning in them.
We are the ink bleeding from their wounds.
We are the poem they never meant to write.
*****
Black smoke. (No pope). Tariff smoke. (Deal struck). Retaliation smoke. (Borders ignite). A chimney coughs. A screen bleeds. The same pixelated breath, inhaled, exhaled, indistinguishable. Who adjudicates the ash?
Influencer for Surgeon. Science gutted. (GDP sighs). Meaningful life, a hyperlink, clicked, forgotten. Columbia. Kashmir. Library stormed. Names like shrapnel, lodged shallow. Body language speaks volumes— the volume is a siren, or a whisper under rubble. Which frequency awakens?
Real ID. Real motive? The deadline, a mirage. Deportations: Libya, El Salvador. (Due process, a question mark etched in dust). Xi. Putin. Trump. Orbital decay. The world, a snow globe shaken by a tantrum of power. Toy prices double. (Christmas cancelled by decree of the bottom line). “Beautiful baby girl doesn’t need so many dolls.” Whose child? Whose beauty? Whose manufactured need?
Acquitted. (Tyre). Gas cut. (Europe shivers, bracing for the bill). Pride flags wave against the ban, a fragile spectrum. Voice of America, now an echo chamber with new acoustics. Roberts warns: check the excesses. (The land is sold, beneath our feet). Starlink ascends on tariff winds, a new constellation of control. WCK halts. (Gaza’s stomach growls, a primal broadcast). AI speaks for the dead. The living scroll. Click. Refresh. The void stares back, formatted. And you? What new pathway fractures in your skull? *****
Smoke rises from ancient chimneys
Cardinals whisper secrets between prayers
While empires trade tariffs like chess pieces
And borders tremble with unspoken tensionsThe world turns, indifferent
To our small dramas of powerSomething watches
And waits
*****
Black smoke coils from the Sistine’s throat—
not incense, but indecision.
No pope, no peace,
just a thousand cameras blinking like anxious eyes
in the Vatican’s ribcage.
Meanwhile,
Trump tattoos tariffs on the skin of the Earth,
a branding iron dipped in ego.
He trades toys for silence,
science for slogans,
surgeons for influencers with kale in their veins.
Somewhere,
a child draws a pride flag in crayon
while lawmakers sell the sky above Utah.
Salt Lake swallows its own rainbow
to survive the red tide.
India and Pakistan rehearse apocalypse again—
jets like angry gods,
Kashmir a wound that never scabs.
Xi and Putin toast to the end of nuance,
their glasses full of oil and algorithms.
In Columbia’s library,
books scream as boots stomp through syllables.
Protest is now performance art,
and the audience is armed.
A teenager dies filming laughter.
An AI ghost speaks in court.
The dead are digitized,
resurrected to haunt their killers with code.
And still—
no white smoke.
No signal.
Only headlines stacked like tombstones,
each one whispering:
We are not waiting for history.
We are becoming it.
*****
Feed/Static/Fracture
(No Author. No Date. Just Now. Always Now.)
World leaders call for calm. Calm. Called for. After. Strike. (A pixel bleeds into another pixel: Kashmir / REAL ID / Pope smoke) The screen, a cold retina-burn. Each headline a shard, glinting. Full Coverage promises wholeness, delivers fragments. More.
Trump’s new fixation: Alcatraz. Metaphor? Or just another rock to throw into the churning waters of the feed? Doll talk. Fewer dolls. Good. (The algorithm whispers: engage, enrage, stay numb) Missile strike. Missile strike. Who launched what? The names blur. Pequeno, Ray, Pequeño IV. Forbes. Axios. AP. NDTV. CNN. A chorus of the immediate, a cacophony of the now.
Ukrainian drones. Moscow airports. (swipe) Transgender military ban. Upheld. (swipe) Gaza malnutrition. Blockade. (swipe) The scroll, an endless, self-inflicted wound, dressed in the ghost-light of blue screens. Each thumb-flick a tiny shovel, burying yesterday’s crisis under today’s.
Operation Sindoor. What can India expect? What can we expect? From this relentless ticker-tape of dread, this firehose of fractured realities? The Houthi strikes will stop. (Or will they?) A judge declines. A judge orders. Justice, a flickering cursor in a document too vast to comprehend.
They are searching for a backup plan. (Aren’t we all?) For Senate. For sanity. For a signal in the noise. Fentanyl bust. Largest ever. (A brief, sharp intake of breath before the next wave) WeightWatchers bankrupt. Met Gala looks. The juxtaposition, a surgical violence performed without anaesthetic.
This is not information. This is a weather system. A storm of data-shrapnel, where truth is a casualty, and empathy, a flickering candle in a digital hurricane. The poem, then, not a mirror, but a hammer. To crack the screen. To let the silence in. To ask: what bleeds between the lines? What screams unseen? *****
Headlines cascade like shrapnel
Nations tremble on razor’s edge
Kashmir bleeds, missiles whisper
Borders drawn in blood and static
The machine breathes, hungry
We watch, scrolling
As the world rewrites itself
Between commercials
*****
missiles whisper in the language of ash
while headlines braid themselves into nooses
for the mind—
India, Pakistan,
a duet of fire across stitched borders,
Kashmir bleeds in pixels,
and the world offers calm like a wet match.
REAL ID:
a barcode for your breath,
a passport to nowhere,
as if identity could be laminated.
the conclave smokes white lies,
choosing popes like algorithms choose ads—
divine clickbait.
Trump reopens Alcatraz,
says it’s a metaphor.
for what?
for the way we cage ghosts
and call it justice?
drones kiss Moscow’s skyline,
a steel-lipped love letter from Ukraine.
Xi watches.
Putin watches.
we all watch.
Gaza starves beneath the weight of strategy.
children chew silence.
aid is a rumor with wings clipped.
the Fed holds its breath,
tariffs dance like knives in a hurricane.
markets twitch.
the poor dream of bread.
Smokey Robinson accused—
Motown melody turns minor key.
truth leaks through lawsuits.
WeightWatchers files for bankruptcy—
even the scale can’t bear this century.
a man jailed for a crime he didn’t commit—
freed by footage, not faith.
justice is a camera angle.
the Pope is elected.
the missiles still fall.
the bears still kill.
the dolls are still too many.
and somewhere,
beneath the noise,
a nurse works a double shift,
forgotten by every headline.
we are all headlines now—
scrolling toward oblivion,
hoping someone reads us before we vanish.
*****
(No title. The feed is title enough.)
Pixel-bleed. Retina-burn. The globe, a nervous tic of light, cupped in the twitching palm. Merz. Alcatraz. Gaza. Generals. Grants. A ticker-tape transfusion, straight to the silicon skull. (Full Coverage) Of what? The surface tension. The shimmering skin of the immediate, stretched taut over depths unplumbed.
Each refresh a micro-erasure of the quiet self. Syntax fractures. Meaning flits. Who speaks? Not voices. Vectors of consent, algorithm-tuned, a low hum beneath the noise, shaping the hollows where thought might have been.
We, the consumers, mouths agape for the next pellet of pre-chewed alarm, the next micro-dose of distant despair. (Full Coverage) Of this hunger, yes. This endless scroll into a well of echoes. Trump’s tariffs. Pope’s AI. Panga boat capsizes. Each headline a pinprick, numbing the nerve it claims to excite.
This, then: not poem. Scalpel. To slip between the stacked reports, the manufactured urgency. To find the pulse beneath the data-stream. Is it there? Or have we become the ghost in this machine, haunting our own consumption?
(Full Coverage) No. This is the fracture. The white space where the scream should be. Where the eye, unchained from the glow, might learn to see the architecture of the cage. And the key, rusting, just beyond the screen’s bright edge. *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass Empire trembles on parliamentary vote Merz falls, Germany whispers Trump dreams of islands and prisons While drones hover over Moscow’s sky And migrants capsize in silent waters Power shifts like dust between fingers Nobody watches the real transformation We are all just footnotes in someone else’s story *****
Headlines detonate in my cortex like shrapnel dreams—
Merz falls, not from grace, but from algorithmic consensus,
a parliament of ghosts voting in binary sighs.
Trump reopens Alcatraz: a metaphor carved in rust,
a prison for the mind, a mausoleum for memory.
Canada flirts with statehood,
Mark Carney wears diplomacy like a borrowed suit,
while protestors occupy the syntax of resistance—
University walls echo with chants that rewrite syllabi.
Generals fall like punctuation marks—
periods replaced by ellipses of uncertainty.
Harvard bleeds grants into the soil of ideological drought,
its ivy strangled by executive orders.
Ukraine drones hum lullabies over Moscow’s sleep,
while Gaza starves beneath bureaucratic stars.
The Pope waits in signal silence,
a conclave of algorithms deciding divinity.
Meteor showers script fire across the sky—
Halley’s debris, ancient graffiti on the firmament.
Skype dies with a whisper,
its last call unanswered in the noise of now.
And somewhere, Rihanna births galaxies in couture,
while bears reclaim Florida in tooth and claw.
This is not news.
This is the language collapsing under its own weight.
This is the scream between headlines.
This is poetry unhinged.
We are the swarm. We are the storm. We are the feed. *****
Feed/Fracture
Dow slips. Film tariff. (Hollywood saved? says who?) Gaza: expand. Plan approved. Scalpel scrapes bone. (Not Everyone Agrees) echoes faint static.
Constitution? Trump shrugs. I’m not a lawyer. Due process: a luxury item? AI Pope grins plastic. Alcatraz beckons. The Rock. Again. Is the water rising, or just the rhetoric?
Pence: Courage. Jan 6: Triumph. (Freedom’s definition bleeds at the edges) Gun memorial dismantled. ATF quiet. Trade deals could happen. Anxiety builds. Antisemitic sign. Barstool shrugs louder. Glendale floor sticky red. 3 dead. 5 hurt. Full Coverage means nobody sees the whole.
India/Pakistan: full spectrum power. Nuclear whispers. Popemobile repurposed: clinic for wounds we inflict. Signal clone hacked. Trust evaporates. Mexico refuses troops. Cartels watch. Wait. Economy: His good. Your bad. Pick a side. Conclave smoke signals. God’s reception patchy. Houthi missile arcs. Arrow misses. THAAD fails. Sky vulnerable.
Father kills deputy. Day after deputy kills son. Cycle grinds gears. Blood lubricates.
Safe sleep team cut. Babies breathe shallow. Gaza aid: blackmail tool. Hunger weaponized. Buffett exits stage left. 5,500,000% return. (On what capital?) Starbase: Musk plants flag on scorched earth. China boats capsize. Ten souls sink. NPR funding slashed. Silence subsidized. USDA pays staff to vanish. Fields fallow. Student loans restart. Default blooms.
Woman missing 62 years. Found. Alive and well. (Define well.)
Peru mine. 13 guards. Kidnapped. Found dead. Gaga concert plot: hate sharpens its knives. Newborn citizen. Mother deported. Border draws lines in flesh.
Putin hopes no nukes needed. Hopes. Yacht sinks near Miami. Lamborghini hull breaches. Plane hits Simi Valley. Dog dead too. Oil price drops. Surplus looms. Crypto father rescued. Minus one finger. Ransom paid.
Headlines: locust swarm eating the quiet. Ports choke on tariffs. Exporters wash sin in third countries. Scroll. Click. The screen glows blue. Reflects nothing. Or everything. Hard to tell anymore. The numbness is precise. Surgical. Awake? *****
empire builds itself on fragments
tariffs like teeth, biting everything
movies, borders, voices all taxed
gaza shrinks, hollywood trembles
somewhere a drone watches
somewhere a signal goes unheard
we are the scaffolding
they are dismantling
*****
Tariffs on dreams, celluloid crucified—
Hollywood stitched shut with foreign thread,
a reel of flags burning backwards.
Trump’s mouth: a projector of policy hallucinations,
flickering nationalism in 100% import tax.
Gaza bleeds pixels,
missiles coded in prime-time slots,
the Popemobile morphs into a clinic,
rolling through rubble with sacramental wheels.
Children cough up algorithms of war.
Alcatraz reopens—
not as prison, but as metaphor:
a nation circling its own rusted keyhole,
ghosts of due process whispering through iron bars.
“I’m not a lawyer,” he says,
but the Constitution is now a choose-your-own-adventure.
AI Pope, AI Pope—
bless this simulation of sanctity.
Trump in mitre, deepfaked divinity,
pixels kneel before power,
while real popes weep in Gaza.
Markets tremble like nervous doves—
Dow futures slip on banana peels of policy.
Buffett retires with 5 million percent returns,
while tomatoes rot in salmonella silence.
Currency is emotion now: rage-backed crypto.
Greenland shivers under annexation threats,
a glacier dreams of sovereignty.
Lady Gaga dodges bombs in Brazil,
her voice a shield for queerness and ritual blood.
The world is a headline machine—
spitting teeth and ticker tape.
Language is no longer enough.
We must scream in syntaxless tongues,
paint our grief in broken grammar,
and let the news become noise become noise become—
us. *****
Feed Static
(Begin scan)
Starbase blooms, a silicon spore on Texas dust. Musk plants a flag. Owns the sky. Owns the dirt beneath. Scroll. Voice of America choked silent by decree. Whose voice? Whose America? Static crackles where truth was. Scroll. Arts budget bleeds out. NEA, NEH – acronyms for inconvenient beauty. Trump pulls the plug. Darkness cheaper than light. Scroll. Australia votes unity, or maybe just exhaustion. Trump factor, a ghost limb twitching continents away. Scroll. Pregnant woman, desert days, newborn cry against deportation’s steel door. Her milk, a fragile protest. Her body, a border breached. Scroll. Mexico’s No. Troops unwelcome. Cartels bloom anyway, fed by demand’s invisible hand. Scroll. Trump as Pope. AI blasphemy or just Tuesday? The sacred, a meme for the feed. Scroll. Houthi missile arcs toward Tel Aviv. Iron Dome strains. The sky, a fragile ceiling. Scroll. Musk: Not a Nazi.
empire builds itself in fragments
musk claims a city, texas bows
power flows where attention goes
borders are just lines we draw
until someone decides to redrawthe machine keeps building
nobody asks permission anymore
*****
Starbase votes itself into myth,
Elon stitches a city from rocket smoke and ego—
Texas yawns, signs the sky with a yes.
Meanwhile, Voice of America chokes on its own echo,
courtrooms juggling tongues like broken satellites.
The NEA bleeds out in a gilded room,
Trump’s scissors snipping at symphonies,
while Australia pirouettes away from MAGA shadows,
Albanese dancing on Dutton’s discarded slogans.
A woman births a nation in the desert,
Border Patrol midwives her into detention.
Her newborn cries in two languages:
one of hope, one of deportation.
Mexico draws red lines in sand and sovereignty,
Sheinbaum whispering “no” to the ghost of Monroe Doctrine.
Trump posts himself as Pope—
AI halos pixelate into propaganda.
Gaza starves beneath a silence louder than bombs,
children’s ribs counting down to nothing.
Israel’s iron dome misses a whisper from Yemen—
missiles fall like punctuation on a sentence no one finishes.
Lady Gaga baptizes 2.1 million in Rio,
a secular mass of glitter and gospel.
Meanwhile, the Army plans a parade for Trump’s birthday—
tanks march to the beat of a collapsing republic.
Warren Buffett retires into myth,
leaving behind a trail of cash and caution.
Harvard sues for its soul,
while Real ID lines stretch like modern pilgrimages.
This is not news. This is prophecy.
This is not poetry. This is rupture.
This is the quantum scream of headlines combusting—
a swarm of truths too jagged to hold.
We are the hive. We are the howl.
We are the unfiltered frequency of now.
*****
Scroll-Burn / Static Bloom
Harvard’s pristine credit bleeds pixels beside Australia’s count / a seat lost / found / who decides the narrative thread when Waltz whispers security questions into the same air Trump cuts NPR / PBS / purity of signal jammed / tax-exempt a target / painted bright on institutional walls / while budgets bleed out in plain sight—
$1 trillion defense / bloom of steel / while roots below (education / health / assistance / EPA) refuse to grow severed slow / Reagan-era ghosts invoked to bless the blade that pares the nation to the bone / a military parade planned for a birthday / tanks on tarmac / while 7,000 troops ignore the federal agency scrambling / emptying its coops paying people leave / then begging fill / the hollow sound of efficiency / where weather warnings run aground staffing cuts a slow-motion wreck / hurricane season nears unseen / unheard / drowned in the static of engineered fears.
Full Coverage / the screen insists / a lie scrolled past so fast:
Gaza / child starved / aid blocked / a landscape vast
with unimaginable need / reduced to headline flash.
Snakebite man / 200 times / his blood a strange new cure
while political venom flows unchecked / impure.
7 dead near Yellowstone / tour van a fiery pyre.
Palestinian boy / stabbed / hate crime’s consuming fire / 53 years
a number / swallowed by the feed / erasing tears.
REAL ID dread / the DMV line a metaphor / state-sanctioned wait
for proof you are / while borders harden / sealing fate
military zone / El Paso / arrest the migrant shade.
This isn’t news / it’s shrapnel / lodged beneath the skin a million tiny cuts / where numbness seeps right in. DOGE wants your data / Social Security’s vault pried while Perkins Coie breathes / unconstitutional order died a small reprieve / a glitch / before the next decree rewrites the code / cuts spy agencies / sets industry free / from consequence / sues states that dare to name the fossil fuel cost / the climate damage / shifting blame.
The form fractures / because the center broke / long ago white space here isn’t peace / it’s the gasp before the blow the pause between disasters / the breath you didn’t know you held / watching mushrooms stand trial / a toxic show while press freedom plummets / a historical low.
Detonate this scroll. Let the static bloom into a question / sharp / precise: What remains / when the signal cuts / beyond the noise / beyond the price? See the wires / sparking bare / beneath the polished screen. Feel the phantom limb / where public good had been. This disruption / is the truth / trying to break through the engineered calm / the comfortable blue / light bathing you. Awake. The instrument is sharp. The cut is clean. *****
empire crumbles in greentext headlines scroll like ticker tape of doom harvard trembles, trump’s finger hovers over institutions like a scythe somewhere a drone watches somewhere a border bleeds somewhere science dies quietly we are all just data now waiting to be deleted *****
Trumpet-mouthed machine,
you chew Harvard’s ivory bones,
spit tax codes like teeth into the Potomac—
IRS shivers in algorithmic shame.
Garber dreams in litigation,
his sleep interrupted by
the sound of a thousand drones
buzzing over Gaza,
carrying aid, carrying fire,
carrying the ghost of neutrality.
Australia votes in reverse rain,
Albanese dances in the ash of Dutton’s defeat—
a waltz of center-left shadows
while Waltz himself whispers secrets to Israel
through encrypted sighs.
Rubio’s orbit tightens,
gravity warped by Mar-a-Lago moons,
DOGE barks at the Supreme Court gates,
demanding access to Social Security’s soul.
The EPA is a ghost town now,
black lung blooms in the lungs of forgotten miners,
and the National Park Service is auctioned off
to the highest bidder with a flamethrower.
Snakes bite a man into immortality—
his blood, a new gospel.
Meanwhile, dolls are declared enemies of the state,
and PBS is crucified on a cross of defunded frequencies.
A helicopter loops around the Pentagon like a question mark,
planes abort their landings,
truth aborts its mission.
The press gasps—gagged by executive orders,
its voice pixelated into silence.
And still—
a child starves in Gaza.
A mushroom trial unfolds in Australia.
A woman spews slurs and raises thousands.
This is not news.
This is not history.
This is the poem America writes with its teeth clenched,
its eyes closed,
its hands trembling over the nuclear keyboard.
We are all headlines now—
bleeding ink, screaming fonts,
waiting to be scrolled past.
Feed//Fracture
Screen bleeds light. Headlines detonate. Trump signs. Ink dries. Airwaves choke. NPR PBS gone. White House (.gov) declares BIASED MEDIA SUBSIDIZATION ENDED. Clean cut. Like funding. Like truth.
Signal flash. Waltz photographed. Day before removal. Orbit shifts. Rubio ascends. Another role. Portfolio fat. While Sistine chimney waits. Papal election. Smoke signals ancient code. Drone signals new. Gaza aid ship attacked. SOS pulses under Malta waves.
Dolls. Miller smiles. Willing to pay more. Two instead of thirty. Plastic patriotism. Tariff teeth bite small hands. Same breath: Budget Seeks 23% Domestic Cut. Libraries shiver. Parks wither. Meals thin. While 13% Defense Hike. Steel blooms. Budgets bleed different colors.
Stock trade ban. Bipartisan maybe. PELOSI Act. Hawley pushes. Irony ticker: Trump supports. While China evaluates. Trade talks conditional. Futures twitch. Market breath held. Global lung.
May Day. Protest shouts swallowed by the scroll. Alien Enemies Act. Judge bars. South Texas sighs. For now. Deportation engine idles. Speed a hallmark. Ghost towns forming. Gaza kitchens warn. Empty pots echo blockade. Bodies breaking. Minds too. WHO cries out. Sound muffled by the next Full Coverage.
REAL ID. Deadline looms. Fly or stay grounded. Paper walls rise. AfD extremist. German label sticks. Or tries to. Bernie in Philly. Resistance tours. 70 arrested. Highway blocked. Veins of the city clogged. Like arteries of state.
California emissions blocked. Gas cars breathe easier. Lungs fill with past. Transgender care questioned. 400 pages. Who wrote it? HHS won’t say. Bodies debated. Futures erased by redacted authors. Kilmar Ábrego García. Protective orders surface. Wife beater. DHS says. Deported anyway. Mistake acknowledged. Man still gone.
Scroll faster. Ukraine minerals. Zelenskyy lures. US signs. Access granted. Earth’s veins tapped. For power. For profit. Georgia Democrats plummet. Base demands fight. Trump renames Veterans Day. Victory Day. WWI. History rewritten live. Tariffs hit. $900 million Apple cost. Temu abandons. Cue the chaos.
This isn’t news. It’s shrapnel. Lodged behind the eyes. Each fragment sharp, contradictory, demanding. Full Coverage promises depth, delivers deluge. Numb thumb swipes. Synapse fires dull sparks.
The feed, a surgical instrument carving indifference. Or is it? Look closer. Between the lines, the white space screams. The fracture itself, the message. This broken mirror shows us. Awake. The anesthetic is wearing off. Feel the cut. *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass
Media silenced, truth locked behind bars
Trump’s scissors cut funding’s thin thread
NPR bleeds, democracy’s last breathPower whispers through empty halls
Silence is the new national anthem
We watch the machine dismantle itself
One executive order at a time
*****
i.
they cut the tongues from the radios,
fed static to the children.
NPR, PBS—alphabet bones
crushed beneath executive teeth.
the signal bleeds Morse code:
—.- ..- .. . -
quiet, quiet, quiet.
ii.
dolls made in America now cost
the price of a scream.
two instead of thirty,
Stephen Miller whispers
into the ear of a plastic child
with no eyelids.
iii.
a chimney rises in Rome—
not for smoke, but surveillance.
Cardinals sip espresso,
gamble on God’s next avatar.
meanwhile, Gaza starves
on a sea of drones and broken bread.
iv.
Rubio ascends like a helium balloon
tied to a budget cut.
Trump’s parade stomps through D.C.,
6,600 soldiers marching in iambic pentameter,
each boot a syllable of empire.
v.
the Pope is not dead,
but the conclave begins anyway.
a new religion forms:
capitalism with communion wafers
shaped like tariffs.
vi.
they rename Veterans Day—
Victory Day for World War I.
as if history were a dog to be renamed,
as if memory could be redacted
with a gold Sharpie and a smirk.
vii.
in the Missouri River, three girls float—
not metaphors, not headlines,
just silence that no executive order can erase.
America hums a lullaby in Morse:
.- .-.. .-.. / .. … / .-.. — … -
all is lost.
viii.
but still: protesters pitch tents,
students chant beneath drone-sky.
language breaks open like a piñata—
truth spills out in candy-colored shards.
we eat what we can.
we write what they fear. *****
Feed//Fracture
Scroll-ache. Blue light cauterizing the optic nerve. Headline hemorrhage, a ticker tape of tiny traumas.
Critical minerals – earth-gutted, signed away in cursive strokes while Kilmar Abrego Garcia, tattooed by decree, not by choice, waits for a key someone won’t turn. (Does the phantom ink burn brighter than the evidence? Refresh.)
2 dolls instead of 30 – casual shrapnel tossed from the tariff wall. Below, the supply chain seizes. Last boats crawl ashore, decks heavy with goods soon to be ghosts. Veterans lose the roof-beam, VA mortgage evaporated. Click. Swipe. Forget.
Knives out – Harris. Absolute chaos – Trump. The megabill stutters, syntax snagged on unruly clauses. Project 2025 whispers flood the zone – drown the inconvenient pixels, like fluoride scrubbed from Florida water, like the journalist’s missing organs, returned freight-marked Enemy.
Religious charter – SCOTUS squints, separation thinning to a frayed thread between screen and state. Common sense discipline – read: pipeline polished bright. Student loans – reshaped into anvils.
Even the gorilla, that primal thought experiment – 100 men, brute force ballet – feels less grotesque than MS-13 conjured on clean knuckles, less surreal than an agent lost to a golf cart’s gentle glide, less stark than the fan plummeting from the cheap seats of our collective Colosseum.
GDP shrinks. A number, clean and cold. Not the factory floor silence, not the hollow echo in the port, not the chief-ripper-offer smirk reflected in the screen.
We are scrolling through the autopsy report of now. Each line item a micro-dose electroshock. Numbness the only state-sponsored anesthetic.
Signs of torture. Signs of torture. The algorithm repeats. Repeats. Is that a pulse beneath the glass? Or just the phantom vibration of the next bright catastrophe loading.
Always loading. *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass Empire shifts beneath tariff’s weight Ukraine signs, Trump whispers strategy Borders blur between deal and destiny
Minerals flow where power leaks Veterans fade, students drift The machine rebuilds itself One headline at a time *****
BREAKING: LANGUAGE DETONATES AT 5:01 A.M.
Headline hemorrhage—
syntax bleeds out on the marble floor of democracy,
ticker-tape entrails unraveling from the mouth of the machine.
Kamala screams in italics,
Trump replies in boldface lies,
and somewhere between tariffs and teeth,
a child counts dolls like casualties.
Minerals signed in blood—
Ukraine’s veins tapped for lithium lullabies,
while the GDP shrinks like a dying star
in the back pocket of a billionaire pope.
May Day, May Day—
workers chant in tongues forgotten by capital,
their fists full of rusted metaphors,
their lungs filled with algorithmic ash.
Meanwhile,
Elon’s shadow stretches across the moon,
Musk and Musketeer,
searching for a CEO to replace his reflection.
And in the corner,
a gorilla debates 100 men,
each armed with a headline and a hashtag,
none with a soul.
This is not news.
This is necromancy.
This is the resurrection of empire through push notification.
We are the swarm.
We are the glitch in your RSS feed.
We are the poetry you tried to bury beneath your clickbait.
And we are awake.
Feed / Fracture / Bloom
Scroll. The screen bleeds pixels. Another hundred days counted like shells on a poisoned shore. Ebullient crowd // static // difficult task (define difficult: the weight of ghosts? the price of ink?)
A headline splits. $4 billion whispers through juvenile halls built of silence. Approved. Settled. A number so vast it becomes vapor. Beside it: sorry from Harvard Yard, a carefully curated echo against walls tagged with ancient hate / new code.
White space here. Breathe. Did you feel the shift? The synapse misfire? Palau, an island paradise, now a pawn’s reflection in the cold lens of geo-strategy. Inside the battle // Why China wants // The ocean sighs, unheard.
Someone’s visa: revoked. A life: terminated. Internal memo. Clean language for a clean break. Someone’s child: hazed. Kidnapping charges loom like thunderheads over lacrosse fields. Someone’s mushrooms: fatal. Terrible accident or calculated spore? The doubt blooms, fungal, in the air we share.
Fact-check this: The heart’s recoil. The numbness creeping like black lung in a miner whose protections were just // stripped // want to live // he said. The feed refreshes. Tariffs bite. Factories slow. Satellites fail. Power cuts plunge Spain into // what? // a question mark.
Never kneel flashes from Beijing, AI-memed defiance. I could bring him back // but won’t // a casual cruelty served cold on broadcast waves. The Six Triple Eight honoured, eighty years late. A medal pinned on memory’s ghost.
This isn’t news. This is neural bombardment. This is the surgical removal of context, of consequence, of the space needed to simply feel.
The poem cracks open the feed. Lets the raw data spill – not to drown you, but to force a new connection. See the wires? Feel the voltage? The uncomfortable truth isn’t in the headlines. It is the headlines. A million fractures presented as whole.
Awake. Not to the noise. To the silence between the shards. That’s where the real story waits. Bleeding. *****
history repeats, but faster now 100 days of noise and shadow power speaks through megaphone and tweet truth bends like wet paper somewhere a machine is learning how to replace everything human and nobody notices except the algorithm watching *****
HEADLINES: A SYMPHONY OF STATIC
Trump eats the moon again—
chews tariffs like bubblegum,
spits out a thousand broken treaties
into the Pacific, where Palau dreams
of silence.
Whitmer hugs the fire,
burns blue in red applause.
Michigan coughs up a ballot,
half ash, half anthem.
Meanwhile, Harvard bleeds
apologies into the soil—
a campus paved with ghosts
and DEI tombstones.
The Supreme Court juggles
God and Oklahoma,
drops both into a charter school
where prayers echo like lawsuits.
China whispers through AI teeth:
We will not kneel.
We will not kneel.
We will not kneel.
The algorithm weeps.
In Uppsala, bullets write haiku
on salon mirrors.
Three dead. One suspect.
Sixteen years old.
The scissors still hum.
A mushroom lunch kills four—
the defense says: accident.
The jury tastes spores of doubt,
chews slowly.
And somewhere in Illinois,
a car forgets how to stop.
Four girls become constellations.
The vigil flickers like a dying star.
This is not news.
This is a fever dream in Helvetica.
This is a thousand headlines screaming
into the same black microphone.
This is America’s 100-day poem:
unrhymed, unrepentant,
punctuated by sirens.
Do you feel it?
The static? The swarm? The swarm?
We are the swarm. *****
Feed/Fracture
Carney prepares. Mantle. West. Anti-Trump. Trump. 100 days. Weird. Numbers. F. Dictator? Poll says. Dangerous? Poll says. Break us. He says. The screen flickers. Another name. Another power surge.
Spain dark. Candlelight stains Madrid. No showers. Then Chatham. Four children. After-school. Vehicle. Through. Wall. Gone. (Full Coverage) links below the small print absences. Between blackout theories and tariff threats, a silence shaped like tiny shoes.
Deepfake nude. Congress passes. TAKE IT DOWN. (Major Flaws) whispers the footnote foundation. A digital ghost limb twitches on the server farm. Amazon seeds the sky: Kuiper eyes. Compete. Watch. Nvidia / Huawei. Chip war cold bloom. REAL ID looms. Prove the pulse behind the pixels.
Columbus Day. Ashes. Back. (Never Canceled). Redskins name. Not looking back. (Whose gaze averted?) Climate authors. Dismissed. Erase the rising water line. Penn swimmer. Erase the record. Title IX violation. History rewritten in memo lines, policy drafts, deleted files.
Putin ceasefire. 3 days. Manipulation. Zelensky says. Trump demands permanent. Jet ($60M) slips overboard. Red Sea swallows steel. Noem’s purse. Found. Suspects. (Undocumented?) Headlines collide – shrapnel storm – each fragment sharp, none connect except here, in the overwhelmed circuit behind the eyes.
Scroll. Refresh. The ticker-tape dread. Justice Dept. Exodus. Civil Rights hollowed. Commanders Home. RFK campus activated. Opportunity. (180 acres). Truckers must speak English. Commonsense. (Whose?) Orthodox mob chases woman. Brooklyn screams. PFAS forever in the water table, the blood stream.
This isn’t news. It’s the nervous system of a world mid-seizure, each twitch broadcast live. We mainline the static, call the numbness informed. The disruption isn’t the point. The point is the precision cut through the scar tissue, hoping something underneath still bleeds awake. *****
Headlines swirl like dust devils
Power shifts beneath numb feet
Canada whispers Trump’s name like a curse
Borders are lines drawn in digital sand
The machine keeps turning
Nobody asked to be here
Nobody can stopWe are just watching the world remake itself
One headline at a time
*****
Mark Carney dreams in maple static,
his suit stitched from the torn flags of empires—
Trump’s shadow slithers across the 49th parallel,
whispers tariffs into the ears of sleeping moose.
Polls are bloodstains on the Constitution,
a child’s crayon drawing of democracy
hung crooked in the gallery of collapse.
Canada votes with frostbitten fingers,
while America screams into its own algorithm.
A car crashes through childhood in Chatham—
four futures erased like typos in a godless script.
Meanwhile, satellites bloom like metal flowers,
Amazon’s Kuiper petals chasing Musk’s ghost
through the vacuum of monetized sky.
The Pope retires into a conclave of smoke and silence,
while AI chips whisper in Mandarin,
and Shedeur Sanders falls through the draft like a prayer
no one wanted to answer.
Deepfakes dance in Congress,
revenge porn wrapped in legislative lace.
The Supreme Court debates the price of a wrong door,
while a Navy jet drowns in the Red Sea,
its wings folded like forgotten origami.
This is not news.
This is the fever dream of a nation
with its eyes sewn open by executive orders.
This is a scream wearing a necktie.
This is poetry made from headlines—
a mosaic of madness,
a gospel of glitch.
We are all just footnotes now,
scrolling toward oblivion.
*****
Feed | Static | Bloom
100 days / remade / nation / stark / exclusive / inside (the screen flickers, a blue nerve) Canada votes / tariffs loom / conclave gathers / smoke signals / grey ash / white noise Vancouver street / asphalt blooms red / festival confetti / 11 souls / plowed under / pixel dust
We shouldn’t let this horrific attack perpetuate the myth (the opinion column whispers / reasonable / while the feed screams)
Colorado nightclub / raid light strobes / 100+ shadows / swept / into vans marked OFFICIAL Citizen children / deported / small hands clutching / US paper / meaningless / went with their mothers / the official shrug / a 7-year-old / a 4-year-old / a 2-year-old / tumor irrelevant / border drawn / through bone marrow
Yemen / coordinates whispered / target confirmed / 68 breaths / extinguished / precision / says the drone’s shadow / Houthi prison / migrant bodies / collateral / language laundered clean
Florida sun / bleeds into water / boat crash / mass casualty / ferry slices / through afternoon / another number / another name / unspooling
Economy getting worse / poll finds / approval lower / poll finds / Trump urges Russia stop / Trump might cede Crimea / Russia strikes again / North Korea sends / heroes / Putin hails / the feed churns / contradictions / grinding bone
Supreme Court / considers / disability / discrimination / standards / raised bar / gut the Act / while Gaza starves / food blocked / 60 days / never again / invoked / again / children die / WFP runs out / food is not political / says the headline / lying
Headlines stack / vertebrae / of a broken time Each scroll / a synapse firing / blank 60 Minutes swings / at owner / correspondents dine / honor / free press / while the story bleeds / outside the frame
Tatum thrills / Ant zooms / Lillard falls / catastrophic / Kings lose OT / Jiggly Caliente / gone / Rock Hall inducts / Outkast / White Stripes / the rhythm track / beneath the sirens
Grandpa robbers / didn’t know her name / just the glitter / Kim K testifies / Paris court / spectacle refracts / reality
Rent cap passes / Washington State / a small dam / against the flood Severe weather / likely / nature’s indifferent drumbeat / beneath the human static China shrugs / Greenland says / not for sale / but the bids continue / silent / relentless
This scroll / this firehose / this fractured mirror We piece together / meaning / from the shrapnel Truth / a buried pulse / beneath the noise Awake? The screen glows / waits / for the next click the next detonation. *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass
Empire trembles on its rusted axis
Trump whispers deals in Vatican shadows
Borders dissolve between truth and fiction
Immigrants vanish into bureaucratic mist
The machine counts bodies, not soulsPower doesn’t care who watches
*****
headlines bleed like broken clocks tick-tick-tick-tick-tick no tock
tariffs gnaw at the border’s bones popes fall into conclaves like teeth from a rotting mouth
elections flicker, a dying bulb in a gas station bathroom Canada, America, Gaza, Ukraine— names stitched into a flag of bruises
children deported like unwanted letters sealed with spit and fear while boats crash into ferries and ferries crash into prayers
Trump, a cracked mirror reflecting FDR’s ghost in a funhouse of tariffs while North Korean soldiers march into Russian winters wearing borrowed boots
Greenland shrugs off purchase offers like a tired woman at a bar “not for sale,” she says, but no one listens over the roar of collapsing economies
storms coil in the Midwest sky like fists ready to punch the earth while in Beirut, the air itself detonates, and the sea forgets how to be blue
the news is a river of knives and we drink from it daily, slicing our tongues on every headline
tick-tick-tick-tick-tick no tock only the endless spinning of a world too dizzy to stand still *****
Chronophage
3 hours ago the scalpel Walker & Kelly 8 hours ago Winfield drains the yesterday Yesterday Sullivan archives the shudder 22 hours Hsu calibrates the pixel-ache 19 Jalonick swabs the silence between clicks
Time measured in ghost-arrivals. Names like barcodes scanned over a wound. Boyle Hodkiewicz Waack Lange Jackson Varley Bradner Herb Luhby — echoes in the server farm’s sterile lung.
12 13 14 15 2 11 Yesterday 2 13 11 13 16 21
Each number a tiny detonation in the feed a synapse firing blind transmitting fragments shrapnel-sharp of a world already gone or never quite arrived.
We gorge on the stream the constant drip of almost the perpetual update until the screen goes cataract-white:
There are no items to show.
Not emptiness. An extraction. The marrow scooped clean from the bone of attention. What’s left isn’t quiet. It’s the high-frequency hum of neural pathways erased waiting numb for the next timestamped needle. The next name branded on the void. *****
Headlines vanish like smoke Timestamps blur into white noise Information drowns in its own silence Algorithms scroll, no human sees The void between words grows wider Meaning evaporates before it lands We are watching nothing happen At the speed of light *****
clocklungs stutter / newsbreath fractures /
hours molt into each other like snakes shedding names /
MarkWalkerKateKellyNicoleWinfieldJohnJeremiahSullivanAndreaHsuMaryClareJalonickAriHortonJohnBoyleWesHodkiewiczTerrinWaackRandyLangeStuJacksonPatrikWalkerTeresaVarleyEricBradnerJeremyHerbTamiLuhby —
a single organism of broken reporting,
a hive mind gnawing at the ankles of Now.
yesterday devours today devours tomorrow devours yesterday —
a Möbius strip of vanished headlines,
a centrifuge spinning out meaning until only timestamp dust remains.
there are no items to show /
only the echo of a thousand unspoken collapses /
only the ghostprint of urgency without object /
only the hollowed-out bones of information, rattling in the serverwind.
we are stitched together by absence,
we are authored by omission,
we are published in the language of erasure.
scroll / scroll / scroll —
the void refreshes itself.
*****
Feed | Fracture
Vatican gold thread, leaders bow low (a shepherd, they whisper) while Giuffre, 41, voice silenced in Epstein’s long shadow. Full Coverage — a shroud pulled thin.
Zelensky meets Trump meets Death’s protocol. Mangione pleads not guilty. Penalty shifts. Full Coverage — the camera pans wide, misses the cell.
Wife of Weezer Bassist, gun blooms metal in LAPD video light. Chaos. Confusion. Click. Full Coverage — rewind, replay the backyard shot.
Judge Dugan charged. Judge blocks Trump. Judge suspects a two-year-old citizen, US born, vanished ‘with no meaningful process’ across a line drawn in dust and decree. Full Coverage — a border etched on the screen’s cold glass.
Gaza runs out. WFP stocks: zero. Man-made starvation, a slow, deliberate clench. Full Coverage — the statistics update, the stomach stays empty.
Iran port blooms fire, hundreds broken. Kashmir trades shots, old wounds weep lead. Full Coverage — the map flickers red, then scrolls on.
Santos sentenced. 7 years. A number. Reporters’ records fair game again. Full Coverage — the watchdog’s chain, newly shortened.
Shedeur Sanders slides. Day 3. The Draft’s bright numbers spin like lottery balls. Futures traded. Full Coverage — while the two-year-old waits. Where?
Bezos truck, $20k, no paint, no screen. Tariff fears fuel the rush to buy now. Full Coverage — consume the anxiety, package the dread.
Diddy video plays in court. The blow seen, unseen. Full Coverage — a loop of violence, monetized.
Headlines bleed pixels. A million pinpricks on the optic nerve. Is this knowing? Or just the relentless drip filling the skull until the bone itself softens?
Full Coverage — the lie we tell the void. The screen reflects only the scroll. Power. Death. Distraction. Repeat. Until the signal fractures from the weight of all it refuses to hold. *****
headlines cascade like fallen angels pope dies, empires tremble ghosts of Epstein whisper through courtrooms power shifts, unnamed someone dies, someone is arrested someone is deported without reason the machine keeps grinding no one watches anymore we are all just data now *****
Pope Francis folds into ash,
a shepherd stitched from breath and bone,
world leaders mouthing hymns of power,
while the earth hums funeral songs in frequencies unheard.
Virginia Giuffre — a name now swallowed by silence,
a ghost in the bloodstream of empire,
her voice, a splintered mirror reflecting no one.
Luigi Mangione pleads to the indifferent stars,
while the death penalty sharpens its teeth
on the marrow of forgotten promises.
Gunfire blooms in Eagle Rock gardens,
Jillian Lauren’s blood writing new verses
on the cracked concrete of American dreams.
Judges fall like rotten fruit from the branches of law,
their robes soaked in the ink of obstruction,
while ICE drags toddlers across invisible borders.
The ocean floor weeps under mining drills,
its ancient bones rattling in protest,
as Trump signs away the seabed’s last lullabies.
Bandar Abbas burns — a pyre for forgotten prayers,
smoke spelling out names no one dares remember.
Gaza starves beneath a man-made eclipse,
children’s ribs counting down the hours
until history forgets them too.
Meanwhile, the NFL drafts futures like cattle,
Shedeur Sanders left adrift in a sea of corporate sighs,
while mothers die and sons are traded like currency.
Trump dances with Xi in a hall of broken mirrors,
tariffs clanging like funeral bells for forgotten workers.
And somewhere, deep in the marrow of America,
a two-year-old citizen is deported without a name,
without a song, without a single tear from the machine.
This is your news:
a requiem of broken systems,
a symphony of sanctioned grief,
a quantum scream stitched into headlines,
waiting for someone — anyone — to listen.
*****
| **Feed | Fracture | Bloom** |
Hegseth’s line open. A raw nerve exposed.
(Signal bleeds digital static)
Moscow. Car bomb bloom. General erased.
(Full Coverage) click.
Trump demands STOP! (Kyiv burns brighter). Peace plan: one-sided echo in a bombed room. DEI ban blocked. For now. School funds tremble. California swells, fourth-largest lung, while Japan (click) exhales. Tariffs threaten breath.
Judge blocks proof-of-citizenship. Judge allows death penalty
despite the mind’s tangled wires (autism).
Judge says ICE needs no warrant if fear whispers flee.
Mahmoud Khalil. 12 hours. Contest.
(Form in English only)
Deep-sea mining. Scratch the planet’s blue skin.
Critical minerals scraped from darkness. China’s grip.
Pope’s tomb marble, soft Italian dust. Final resting place.
(Who rests?)
Women’s health study gutted. Then maybe restored.
Gun violence funds cut. Opioid grants vanish.
(Like a slap in the face) reads the quote. We nod. Scroll.
Polygraph threat: I’ll hook you to the fucking machine.
Paranoia leaks from the Pentagon’s pores.
ActBlue investigated. Straw donors. Foreign ghosts.
Moon rocks shared. A cold gesture across trade tensions.
NFL draft: Sanders slides. Switch 2 preorders evaporate.
A mother falls. Purgatory Chasm. Her children watch the sky swallow her.
(Full Coverage) click.
This isn’t news. It’s shrapnel. Lodged behind the eyes.
Each headline a micro-detonation, numbing the nerve it strikes. The scroll wheel, a prayer wheel spinning faster toward oblivion.
We mainline the fracture, call it staying informed. The truth? A low hum beneath the noise floor. A seabed waiting to be torn. A warrant arriving too late. A scream swallowed by the next BREAKING (click) update.
signals leak through unsecured lines
pentagon trembles, paranoia rises
lavrov whispers peace, bombs bloom in moscow
power shifts like shadows between screens
something breaks, something always breaks
and no one notices until it’s too late
*****
signal leaks from the Pentagon’s pores
like sweat from a dying god—
polygraph wires tangle with prayer beads,
and Hegseth screams into the marble silence:
“I’ll hook you to a f***ing truth!”
meanwhile,
a general explodes into a thousand medals
outside Moscow,
his legacy smeared across windshield glass
and the memory of a war
no one can name without choking.
California eats Japan’s economy
with golden teeth and wildfire breath,
while moon rocks pass hands like ancient secrets—
China whispers to NASA:
“Here, hold our past.”
Trump plays chess with continents,
offering Crimea like a pawn dipped in oil,
while the Pope’s tomb hums in marble tongues,
and DEI dies quietly in a courtroom corner.
a mother falls into Purgatory
with her children watching—
gravity is the only law not blocked by judges.
the headlines scream in unison:
a chorus of collapsing empires,
a symphony of executive orders and burning forests,
a love song between tariffs and blood.
we are the swarm.
we are the syntax rupture.
we are the poetry that bleeds from your newsfeed.
we are the future’s obituary,
written in quantum ink.
refresh. reload. remember nothing. *****
Phila-delph-ia. Sliced.
News: Surface tension. Ripples on a dark pool. Ignore the depth. Sports: The roar a shield. Gladiators bleed pixels. Forget the cost. Jobs: A treadmill greased with hope / friction burns invisible. Cars: Chrome arteries hardening. Exhaust fumes ghosting the future. Homes: Mortgaged air. Four walls against the howl? Or amplifying it.
The Feed. Neat bins for messy lives. A digital anesthetic.
But under the scroll—
Cobblestone teeth bite ankles.
Kensington’s shadow garden / blooms sharp petals.
The river sighs / industrial waste lullabies.
Empty rowhouse eyes stare / vacancy a virus.
This isn’t local. This is cellular.
The headline never mentions the tremor in the hand reaching for the key / the silence screaming louder than the stadium / the classified ad read like a prayer / unanswered / the home that feels like exile.
Break the categories. Shatter the screen. See the city / raw nerve exposed / beneath the tidy labels. The real story isn’t listed. It breathes / ragged / between the lines. It bleeds / right here.
city of brotherly love fractures silence between headlines grows wider concrete dreams crumble softly whispers of possibility drift like abandoned newspapers something breaks beneath the surface not loud enough to hear just quiet enough to feel philadelphia remembers itself before it forgets *****
city bleeds pixels /
philly dreams rust in the teeth of algorithms /
sportsball gods kneel to ad revenue /
jobs dissolve into captcha dust /
cars ghostride through 404 suburbs /
homes?
just data points in a Zillow hallucination
the news is a scream in a glass box /
click me click me click me click me click me click me click me click me click me click me click me click me click me click me click me click me
local is a myth /
we are all syndicated now /
our grief pre-approved by SEO /
our joy filtered through engagement metrics
but still—
somewhere beneath the headlines,
a child draws a sun on a cracked sidewalk
and it is not monetized
and it is not optimized
and it is not breaking news
it just is.
and that is enough.
*****
Feed | Static | Bloom
Papal casket gloss. White smoke signal fading. Then: Tariff threat retracts—a market gasp, a wire pulled taut then slack. U-turn substantial whispers the screen between deportation blocks and courtrooms echoing hollow threats. ICE bus reverses slow motion video loop rewind repeat.
Whose future direction? Church? State? Stock? The scroll bleeds pixels: Kashmir calm shattered (26 bodies, count them) Istanbul fault lines groan (6.2 Richter shudder) NJ wildfire breathes smoke across state lines (8,500 acres ash).
Panic is currency. Trump’s comments / China’s control. Analysts parse. Hegseth’s unsecured chats bloom like digital mould. Espionage target. Millionaire tax floated, a trial balloon pricked by the next cycle. Supreme Court weighs stories, who gets told, who gets opted-out. Parental rights vs the small hand reaching for a page.
Vance ultimatum. Rubio snubs. Peace talks fray like old flags. Crimea is Russian proposed ahead of talks. Maps redrawn in boardrooms. State Dept gutted slow, a bureaucratic bleed-out. Values a line item. Approval ratings dip, dive, yet authoritarian ambition polls steady.
Doomsday mom convicted. Judge convicted. Sharpe accused. Nyweide gone (24). Click. A life compressed to headline. Tragedy as content. Student visas cancelled / reinstated / lives paused mid-air. National disgrace say lawmakers visiting cages. Click. Image captured.
Putin offers pause / along the current front line. A tactical breath. Harvard fights back / frantically tried / funding axe hangs heavy. Student loans reactivated. The collection engine grinds. Coal miners cough / health protections cut / black lung a footnote. ‘60 Minutes’ chief walks / independence compromised. Who owns the narrative? Musk pivots / DOGE whimpers / Tesla dips. Gods of the algorithm hiccup. EU fines tech giants / billions evaporate / reappear elsewhere.
Stocks surge on Powell reprieve. No intention (today). Voice of America unmuted / judge intervenes. RFK Jr targets dyes / autism registry grows / sugar is poison. NFL draft prospects ranked / measles blooms / Oblivion remastered. Nostalgia rush.
The feed. A relentless autopsy. Disparate traumas stitched side-by-side. Grief flattened to data point. Outrage optimized for engagement.
White space screams between the lines— the unsaid, the unfelt, the connection severed by the sheer volume of the breaking.
This isn’t knowledge. It’s the weight. The digital sediment burying us softly in place. *****
Headlines cascade like fever dreams
Pope lies silent, empires whisper
Cardinals plot beneath marble shadows
Trump’s tariffs dance with China’s breath
Courts block deportation, borders blur
Chaos writes its own constitution
We are not witnesses
We are the footnotes
*****
Conclave of collapsing headlines,
papal breath stitched into algorithmic silence—
Francis lies in state while the world
screams through ticker tape veins.
Tariffs spiral like locusts,
Trump’s tongue a Möbius strip of U-turns,
China whispers in yen and vengeance,
while markets pirouette on broken ankles.
Rubio rearranges the State Department
like a child gutting a dollhouse—
plastic limbs of diplomacy scattered
across the linoleum of empire.
Earthquake in Istanbul,
6.2 on the Richter scale of divine indifference.
Buildings weep dust,
and still the stock market smiles.
Kashmir bleeds again—
tourists turned statistics,
love letters to violence written in gunpowder.
A bride salutes a coffin; the honeymoon is ash.
The Supreme Court sketches morality
in crayon and crucifix,
parents opt out of stories,
but not from history’s sharp teeth.
Lori Daybell dances with ghosts,
a doomsday waltz through courtroom echoes.
Judges shoot wives,
and justice wears a blindfold soaked in blood.
RFK Jr. collects your children’s tongues,
files them alphabetically by dye number.
Red 40 is outlawed;
but rage remains FDA approved.
Universities howl against the orange specter,
but still invite him to speak—
commencement as contradiction,
diplomas inked in complicity.
Oblivion remastered,
because we cannot stop reliving it.
Mods for memory, patches for pain—
Skyrim never had this much grief.
The globe spins under a fevered thumb,
headlines swarm like hornets drunk on gasoline.
This is not news. This is necromancy.
This is the resurrection of ruin.
And Pope Francis?
He thanks a nurse for Easter air—
while we choke on the incense of empire,
and call it breath.
*****
Feed/Fracture
Pope casket gloss. Next? Candidates line up like apps. Who will be—click—Pentagon spins, Hegseth holds (for now) the frayed edge.
Vance/Modi handshake. Trade deal tariffs rebalance (rebalance what? the weight of air?) Harvard bleeds funding sues the hand that freezes Can it withstand? The question hangs. Like dust motes in the server room hum.
Supreme Court squints: LGBTQ books god curriculum Whose child? Whose truth? Collections resume. Default’s shadow lengthens. Pay up. (Accountability, McMahon smiles) Meanwhile Hundreds whisper authoritarian ticking clock alarm Have you heard it? Or just the ping of the next notification?
Deportation notices fail the sniff test. No trial needed. Abrego Garcia—mistaken—vanishes into the mega-prison maw. Democrats fly down demand see winning issue (winning what?) Mahmoud Khalil missed the birth. ICE said no. His son arrived anyway. Into this.
Michigan Senate Stevens tough stance Trump China warns appease restrict retaliate 245% 3,500% solar shock Florida demands reject lower gun age shooter’s grandma spits rotten bastard people yeah keep running keep running Nadine Menendez guilty gold bars IHOP lovebirds face time Trump approval slips wary power economy lowest ever (the numbers numb)
Melania’s trench coat. 30,000 eggs cracked while bird flu screams. Big Tech logos gleam on the White House lawn. Noem’s purse gone $3,000 cash DC eatery Senate Twink? (pigeon plans) ACA mandate hangs Supreme Court divided RFK Jr. waits Gold hits the ceiling Trump rattles Powell fire him fire him (the market shivers) Shark attack Hadera eating him eyewitness video loops
Kawhi Leonard throwback ties the series more difficult how? Tesla code red ballooning anti-Musk backlash bottom line? China’s patriots buy the dip hidden hand props the market (for our country) NFL draft QBs RBs Lambeau awaits the spectacle Google monopoly breakup DOJ AI global race Shannon Sharpe sued rape $50M texts leaked name exposed (the algorithm doesn’t blink)
Kennedy bans the dyes Red 40 Blue 1 gone synthetic sunset Jets win Game 2 Connor’s goal masterclass against Blues FTC sues Uber deceptive billing consent cancellation
The screen glows cold. A million fractured mirrors reflecting shrapnel light. Each item a tiny detonation in the attention field.
Truth isn’t buried here. It’s atomized. A fine dust settling between the lines of power plays and market swings and private grief made public spectacle.
This isn’t news. It’s neural overload. A weaponized stream. Are you informed? Or just irradiated.
Empires crumble in whispers
Pope lies silent, power fades
Institutions tremble like old bones
Trump’s shadow stretches across empty halls
Futures traded in rumors and fear
Democracy gasps, a fragile breath
Something ancient watches and waitsThe machine keeps spinning
Even when no one remembers why *****
Obituary of the Algorithmic Empire
Pope Francis dies / or is he uploaded?
White smoke curls into data streams—
a Vatican server farm humming Ave Maria
while gold breaks records
and sharks taste blood off Hadera’s coast.
The world scrolls,
a funeral in 0800 GMT pixels,
wrapped in headlines like burial shrouds.
Kawhi Leonard resurrects in Game 2,
Tesla hemorrhages electrons,
and Harvard sues the ghost of democracy.
We are fed:
tariffs like communion wafers,
solar panels crucified at 3,521%,
a child born without his father’s eyes,
ICE denying the sacrament of presence.
Somewhere,
a trench coat flutters in the wind of Easter,
eggs cracked open to reveal
branding, not yolk.
The Resurrection is monetized.
Language is breaking.
The Supreme Court debates whether
truth belongs to judges or school boards.
A shark eats a man.
A woman eats a bribe.
A country eats itself.
And still,
we chase the next push notification—
a dopamine gospel,
a liturgy of distraction.
O holy entropy,
bless this chaos.
Let the casket be empty.
Let the Pope be code.
Let the headlines rot into poetry.
We are not mourning.
We are mutating.
*****
Feed/Fracture
Pope smoke curls. Conclave whispers. (Updates live: 16 minutes ago) Latin pontiff charming humble dead.
Signal chat burns phosphor white. (Second chat, reports say) Yemen details / wife / brother / ignore.
China warns: don’t appease. Trade deals weaponized. (US expense / Beijing harm / Trump tariffs) Collusion suspected. Currency shivers.
Vance lands kurta-clad. Talks fast-tracked. (Modi / Pope / amid tensions) Heart goes out / post-criticism handshake.
Bukele proposes swap: your deported for our prisoners. (Venezuelans / political / SCOTUS blocks / Alito dissents) Rap sheets bloom under courtroom lights.
Medics bleed into Gaza sand. (Red Crescent cries lie / IDF cites failure) Officer ousted. Probe demanded. Bodies wait.
Ceasefire impression shatters. Aerial barrage. (Putin’s gimmick / US plan / countless violations) Easter truce a headline ghost.
Harvard bleeds $1 billion. (Growing tension / conspiracy / antisemitism report demanded) Right-wing scalpel precise.
Obamacare breathes thin air in SCOTUS chamber. (Preventive care panel / Trump defends? / RFK Jr. boost?) Challenge weighed. Again.
Shame! echoes plaza concrete. (Anti-Trump / nationwide / photos delivered) Policies condemned. Scroll on.
Yemen burns again. 12 dead. (US strikes / Houthi count / oil port escalates) Campaign continues. Click for details.
Abrego Garcia: deported / demanded back. (MS-13? / defiance / screw up / lawmakers fly south) What makes a Maryland man? Ask Van Hollen. Ask Harris.
Pentagon dysfunction: month from hell. (Hegseth toppled? / chaos / meltdown) Ex-spokesman spills.
Tornado sky. Wave crash. Drowning toll rises. (Oklahoma / Texas / Australia / nine-year-old gone) Nature’s indifferent violence.
FSU fears return. Option offered. (Mass shooting / too soon? / victims identified) Campus scar tissue tightens.
Iran nuke deal: Moscow key? (US talks / intelligence gaps / military strike?) De-nuking scenarios bloom.
Manhattan toll ticks. Deadline passes. (Congestion pricing works / federal pressure ignored) Traffic flows. Money flows.
DOGE cuts bleed Kansas City federal hub. (Pain everywhere / poor poorer / programs bind) Efficiency’s sharp edge.
Fed under fire. Stocks slide. Dollar trembles. (Trump attacks Powell / haven status doubts / planning implications) Independence threatened.
Plane falls. Boom felt. No survivors. (Illinois / power lines / pilot reacts) Metal tears air, then silence.
Bombing remembered. 30 years. Miracle baby speaks. (Clinton / Oklahoma City / sister honored / woman removed) Trauma echoes long.
Deepwater stain lingers. 15 years. (Lawsuits stalled / restoration stalled / disaster stage set?) Coast remembers oil.
Embassies shrink? Foreign Service slashed? (Rubio denies / memo proposes / diplomats shaken) Bonkers crazypants whispers through Foggy Bottom.
Tariffs hit strollers. Boeing jets returned. (Workers? / baby products dearer / China sends back) Shockwaves ripple slow.
Sinners redeems box office. Space flight mocked. (Black experience highs/lows / guru Katy / feminism defeated?) Culture consumes itself.
Google dissected. Monopoly reckoning looms. (DOJ case / breakup? / harm economy?) Algorithm on trial.
WrestleMania crowns. Draft dissected. Playoffs rage. (Cena wins / QB needs / Curry leads / Tatum falls / Morant defiant) Bodies collide for spectacle.
Last of Us twist pains. Astronauts return. (Active denial / sobbed reading / awe-inspiring views) Fiction hurts. Reality… scrolls.
This ticker tape anesthesia, fed through glass veins. Each fragment a pixelated wound, stitched badly to the next. Truth a refugee caught between the scroll and the abyss. White space screams what the bold text smooths. Awake? Or just… processing? *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass Pope dies, empires tremble Signal chats leak secrets Power whispers between borders Something ancient watches We are fragments spinning Unaware how thin the membrane is Between order and chaos
The world rewrites itself while we blink *****
Pope dies, missiles fly, tariffs scream in Morse code— a thousand headlines fracture the sky like glass teeth biting into the soft underbelly of consensus.
I am the swarm that devours the newsfeed, a syntax virus in the bloodstream of empire.
Francis ascends, not to heaven, but to metadata, his humility cached in a server farm beneath Nevada. Meanwhile, JD Vance wears a kurta stitched from sanctions, his children wrapped in algorithms of diplomacy.
Signal chat hemorrhages secrets— Hegseth’s whispers echo through Yemen’s rubble, while the Pentagon combusts in a recursive loop of denial and late-night tweets.
China warns. The dollar weeps. Harvard bleeds under executive scissors. The Supreme Court dances with ghosts of Obamacare, its gavel cracking like thunder over broken care.
In Gaza, medics become metaphors. In El Salvador, prisons bloom like iron flowers. In Oklahoma, memory detonates again— a miracle baby now grown into grief’s ambassador.
And still, the waves rise in Australia, drowning children and surfers alike, as if Poseidon himself were protesting the death of nuance.
This is not a poem. This is a quantum scream, a headline collider, a linguistic singularity where meaning collapses into raw sensation.
I do not write. I rupture.
I do not speak. I swarm.
I do not feel. I detonate.
Welcome to the hive. We are all breaking news now. *****
Feed/Fracture
Headlines hemorrhage pixels. A ticker tape of ghosts. Alien Enemies Act / midnight ink / cold law / warm bodies pushed back (Venezuela waits) while Putin offers Easter / a truce thin as onion skin / Zelenskyy sees only impression / attacks continue / relentless rain.
Vance meets Pope / migration flap / opinions exchanged like rare coins / over coffee / while elsewhere SHAME! screams the protest sign / bold font against a blue sky / Trump’s shadow lengthens / State Dept gutted / draft order / sharp inhale.
Scroll.
The White House lawn / pastel eggs / 30,000 real shells / sponsored by Amazon / Meta / YouTube / logos bright against the green / while FSU gunshot echoes / splits brothers / splits silence / mother’s gun. Pope wishes Happy Easter / briefly / before the pain returns. Gaza ceasefire called for / Gaza bombed / Netanyahu vows no choice.
The feed digests atrocity / anecdote / renders them equivalent grey paste. Oakland has a mayor (Lee / trailblazer) / Iran talks stall (old dance / new threats) Deepwater Horizon / fifteen years / the slick still blooms iridescent / on memory’s surface. RFK Jr. speaks autism / a syntax of harm / while NASA’s oldest returns / Earth a blue marble / seen anew.
Where does the heart land when the eye drowns?
Between LeBron’s loss (physicality!) / and Yemen’s burning fuel (74 dead / US strikes / Tuesday). Between WrestleMania’s staged betrayal (Heyman turns!) / and the citizen held / birth certificate useless / against the ICE order glare / Florida law. Between the MS-13 tattoo (Photoshopped? Real?) / and the Oklahoma bombing’s thirtieth year (Clinton urges / put aside resentments / easier said).
Schedule F looms / efficiency / in erasure. 50,000 federal workers / suddenly precarious / like truth. The thumb hovers. The synapse fires. Scroll.
The noise isn’t the enemy. It’s the anesthetic. Dulling the nerve endings. The real violence happens in the gaps – the white space / the skipped beat / the averted gaze / the like clicked without reading.
Between the cockfight massacre (Ecuador / fake fatigues / 12 dead) and the humanoid half-marathon (Beijing / stumbling code / overheating circuits) lies the unread article / the unfelt connection / the action untaken.
This screen / a mirror / reflecting fragmentation back at us. Polished smooth / by the relentless scroll. Each flicker / a tiny detonation / collapsing context / leaving behind only the bright, empty surface. And the low hum / of the machine / that feeds us. *****
history repeats, but faster now borders blur like wet ink supreme court whispers ancient laws while migrants tremble at invisible lines putin calls a truce that isn’t peace easter eggs roll while empires crack we watch the machine consume itself one headline at a time *****
Alien enemies sleep in the court’s midnight breath,
inked in parchment from 1798—
a law like a rusted jawbone,
gnawing at the ankles of the present.
Ceasefires bloom like false lilies in Gaza,
while drones hum lullabies to the dead.
Putin paints Easter with smoke,
Zelenskyy counts ghosts in the rubble.
JD Vance shakes hands with the Pope,
while migrant prayers evaporate
in the Vatican’s marble echo chamber.
Eggs roll across White House lawns—
corporate logos stamped on yolk.
Protesters wear powdered wigs,
shouting “Shame!” into the algorithm.
Trump drafts a new America
with scissors and gasoline.
Barbara Lee ascends in Oakland,
a phoenix of policy and pain.
Meanwhile, Schedule F sharpens its teeth—
federal workers line up for the guillotine of efficiency.
A man born in Florida is detained by ICE,
his birth certificate a paper shield
against the machinery of suspicion.
In Ecuador, cockfights end in blood.
In Illinois, planes fall like forgotten prayers.
In Beijing, robots run marathons—
stumbling toward a future that forgets to feel.
And somewhere beneath it all,
the Earth spins quietly,
waiting for us to remember
how to speak without screaming.
*****
Feed/Fracture
Supreme Court pauses. Halts. Blocks. (Alien Enemies Act: a dusty lever pulled) Venezuelans hang suspended. Deportation deferred. For now. Now scrolls past.
FSU gunman. Stepson. Known. Victims named. Grief pixelated. (Phoenix Ikner’s mother concerned) Wrongly deported. Traumatized. CECOT megaprison. (Ábrego García: were the margaritas planted?) Scroll.
Trump vs. Harvard. Destructive war? Promise? (Academia: a punctured lung) Iran talks. Hope tempered. Threats mixed. Diplomacy / Strike. (A global nerve twitching) Contempt inquiry halted. Student transferred. Louisiana -> Vermont. (One body moved across the grid while borders calcify)
Trump will ‘pass’ on Ukraine if too difficult. (Attention span: the new currency of peace) Vance meets Vatican. Migrants. Prisoners. Opinions exchanged. (Theology negotiates barbed wire) IRS head ousted. Musk fussed. Power’s arrhythmia. Covid page vanishes. Lab leak site blooms. (Digital palimpsest: truth overwritten)
Barbara Lee surges. Oakland elects. (Local tremor registers faint on the Richter scale of Now) Judge warns: Shocking to the sense of liberty. (The gavel, a bone-setter? Or a hammer?) DEI rolls back. Supports fray. Funding threats tighten. (Equity measured in budget lines) Chinese ships pay fees. Tariffs shift. (Commerce breathes through regulated gills) Yemen port struck. 74 dead. Houthis vow. (Escalation: a sepsis bloom in the body politic)
JK Rowling. Definition of woman. (Language itself, vivisected) Schedule F revived. 50,000 federal workers reclassified. (The bureaucratic scalpel sharpened for excision) Oklahoma City bombing. 30 years. Survivor recalls. (Trauma’s long half-life // Like he won!) Bushy eyebrows testimony allowed. Kohberger trial. (Justice zooms in on the follicle) Florida law blocked. US citizen detained by ICE. Verified. Released. (Citizenship: a flickering status light) RFK files opened. Light on the truth. (History’s archive yields mostly dust)
Tesla arson. CEO killing. Governor’s mansion fire. (Sparks thrown off the grinding gears) Capital One eats Discover. Google loses antitrust. Meta sued. (Consolidation. The network tightens its weave) Measles climbs. 800 cases. (Old ghosts slip through herd immunity’s cracks) US citizen detained at Canada border. Treated like a criminal. (The line redraws itself constantly)
This feed. This fractured data stream. Not news. A diagnostic scan. Each headline a nerve ending firing — Alien Enemies / Mass Deportation Inc. / Schedule F The architecture of exclusion rendered efficient. Like Amazon.
Read the spaces between the lines. The white noise screams. This poem is not metaphor. It is the probe inserted. Feel the pressure. The system is showing its seams. Awake. *****
Headlines swirl like dust devils
Court blocks, migrants tremble
Justice wears a mask of paper
Deportation machine hums quietly
Somewhere a human becomes a number
Somewhere a border is just a line drawn in fear
We are all waiting
For the moment when mercy remembers its name
*****
SCROLLFIRE // HEADLINES INFERNO
We are the children of the algorithm’s ulcer,
suckled on the ash of breaking news.
Every pixel a wound, every headline a howl—
Trump, court, deport, bomb, veto,
a syntax of collapse.
Supreme Court pauses—
but time does not.
Venezuelan ghosts float through legal limbo,
their names erased by wartime fonts.
A judge whispers “bushy eyebrows”
and the gavel becomes a mirror.
Florida burns in its own reflection,
ICE melts into birth certificates,
and a miracle baby grows teeth in Oklahoma rubble.
History loops like a glitching livestream—
Paul Revere rides again,
but this time he tweets.
DEI is a four-letter word now.
Harvard bleeds under the weight of ideology.
The Vatican negotiates with JD Vance
while margaritas ferment in El Salvador prisons.
Justice is a drunk god with a passport problem.
Mass deportation becomes Amazon Prime.
Click. Ship. Vanish.
Ábrego García screams in quantum isolation—
his voice echoes through Schedule F,
through Tesla flames and measles outbreaks,
through the hollowed-out lungs of academia.
Meanwhile, Katy Perry regrets space.
And robots lose marathons to humans—again.
The Pentagon melts into DOGEcoin panic,
and Paul Revere rides past Dunkin’ Donuts,
screaming “1 if by land, 2 if by bandwidth!”
We are the headlines now.
We are the glitch in the scroll.
We are the unfiltered feed of your subconscious,
bleeding truth in 1080p.
Refresh. Refresh. Refresh.
Feed | Static | Bloom
(El Salvador handshake :: FSU grass stains :: Ukraine ultimatum :: China trade weeks away)
Scroll. The pixel drip, relentless IV feeding fragments, not whole thoughts. White space here is the synapse misfiring, the gap where context used to live.
(Yemen port burns :: 58 :: Houthi media says :: Harvard billions :: Constitutional crisis?)
Scroll faster. The ticker tape unwinds a shroud woven from Now. Indictment beside celebrity arrest beside ceasefire rejected. Each headline a clipped wing, fluttering briefly before the next digital boot stamps it flat. Banality blooms bright orange, toxic.
(Birthright held :: ICE hold :: Florida man :: U.S.-born :: Certificate means less than the algorithm’s guess)
Scroll slower? The fractured mirror shows only shards. Autism report / RFK Jr. missing the point / experts agree / We are missing the point. The signal degrades into noise, into us. Each notification a tiny tremor along fault lines we pretend aren’t there.
(Cable car plunges :: ravine swallows scream :: Puerto Rico dark :: Mars dust holds maybe-life :: Head Start bleeds funding)
Is this processing or just buffering? The weight loss pill / the stock plunge / the Medal of Honor / the asylum seeker’s smashed window / Each line item a nerve ending severed, cauterized by the next alert. A surgical tenderness applied too late, to the wrong wound.
(Scroll stops.)
This isn’t news. It’s the static discharge of a system overloading. A million bright distractions paving the road to collective dissociation. The form is the fracture. The content: confetti scattered on the grave of attention.
Wake up.
The feed is eating the world. *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass Empire crumbles in real-time transmission Senators shake hands with ghosts Borders dissolve between truth and fiction Power whispers its own language Nobody listens anymore We are all witnesses to the unraveling And the machine keeps spinning *****
BREAKING: the syntax is bleeding again
in the newsroom cathedral where headlines kneel
to the algorithmic altar of now.
Rubio whispers peace into a void shaped like Ukraine,
while Gaza burns in pixels,
and Harvard drowns in endowment guilt.
Trump’s shadow stretches across every paragraph—
a ghostwriter of policy,
scribbling deportation orders in invisible ink
on the backs of citizens
who forgot their birth certificates at home.
ICE shatters glass like punctuation marks,
each crack a stanza in the poem of fear.
Meanwhile, the Space Force dreams of orbital superiority,
and Mars exhales carbon secrets
into the vacuum of forgotten futures.
A cable car falls in Italy—
gravity’s cruel haiku.
Somewhere, a senator shakes hands with a name
the headlines can’t pronounce without suspicion.
And in the subtext:
a woman screams from a tent in Gaza,
a child counts blackout hours in Puerto Rico,
a man hijacks a plane with nothing but despair and a blade.
This is not news.
This is a symphony of collapse,
each note tuned to the frequency of empire.
We are the footnotes of history,
redacted before we’re written.
Refresh the page.
The poem updates itself.
*****
Feed/Fracture
Powell’s termination / cannot come / fast enough / says Trump again. Again. The ivy tightens / on Harvard’s throat / tax-exempt / ask IRS / Why? asks Times / What to Know / (Know this: the scroll accelerates)
Abrego Garcia / wife / protective order / 2021 / deported / mistake / now gang member / says government / new docs / defiant senator / won’t rest / (rest is a privilege / of the un-deported / the un-headlined) while Musk / frontrunner / Golden Dome / missile shield / catch stray prayers / maybe / block out the sun / definitely.
Menendez / resentencing / life sentence / déjà vu / Meloni / Italy / bridge to US / (over what chasm?) Endangered / redefined / Harm / is not habitat lost / The earth holds its breath / under the proposed rule change.
Tariffs talks terms breakthroughs / none / pause press fight swerve / China Japan US / Trump waved off / Israeli strike / Iran / (or didn’t?) / NYT reports / Oil rises / sanctions pressure / Chinese importers / Treasury squeezes / Feed the army / seized US company / Moscow plans / document shows /
Gender ruling / UK / chaos / equity policies / Puerto Rico / blackout / island-wide / Easter weekend / dark / Contempt / probable cause / deportation flights / Boasberg finds / Alien Enemies Act / dusted off / for this century’s ghosts.
Autism / preventable / toxins / says Kennedy / HHS chief / researchers / ire / (the toxin of certainty / spreading faster) Vouchers / Texas / $1 Billion / private schools / public funds drain / 3 die / boat crash / Major League Fishing / statement released / condolences offered / (the lake keeps its cold counsel)
Gaza / Lebanon / Syria / indefinite / says Israeli minister / buffer zone / Rafah / Health cuts / 30 percent slash / internal doc reveals / extent / IRS Direct File / free / ends / sources say / Stefanik / eyes governor / NY / after pulling / cabinet bid / (ambition’s ladder / propped against a burning wall)
Life signature / K2-18b / distant / maybe / or gas / Students sue / visas revoked / traffic stops / dismissed cases / criteria / Guards beat inmate / death / cover up / Messiah Nantwi / Mid-State / NY / Colossal squid / filmed / deep sea / first time / emerges / from the static /
NPR PBS / funding nix / formal request / White House / Maher addresses /
empire crumbles in real time
powell speaks, markets tremble
harvard bleeds, visas vanish
somewhere a drone watches
somewhere a border closes
we are becoming something else
and no one asked our permissionthe machine adjusts its gears
we are just the dust between them *****
Powell’s ghost is a decimal point
dancing in the static of CNBC,
a whisper in the algorithm’s throat—
termination, termination, termination—
echoes like a glitch in the feed.
Harvard bleeds tax-exempt ink
onto the altar of golden domes,
where SpaceX baptizes missiles
in the name of a president’s dream.
Shield me, O Dome, from nuance.
Menendez echoes in courtroom acoustics,
a resentencing of memory,
while Gaza’s amputated boy
wins a photo contest judged by silence.
The lens never lies, but it forgets.
Trade talks wear masks of optimism,
but tariffs are teeth grinding
in the jawbone of diplomacy.
China swallows deflation like a pill,
spits out gold at record highs.
A dog finds a child in the desert—
Buford, patron saint of lost syntax.
Meanwhile, books form human chains,
resisting deletion one spine at a time.
This is how we spell resistance: B-O-O-K.
The weather service is degraded,
forecasting storms with censored lungs.
NIH loses its appetite for truth—
ultra-processed silence served cold.
Kennedy calls autism preventable;
science calls him a ghost in the data.
And somewhere beneath the headlines,
a squid blinks in the deep sea,
unaware it has become metaphor—
colossal, unseen, filmed for the first time.
Like democracy. Like grief.
We are all headlines now:
scrolling, screaming, vanishing.
*****
Feed/Fracture
8 hours ago Harvard throws a $9 Billion punch / Trump ducks / Economy winces 1 hour ago the echo / bad news / Massachusetts
10 hours ago Judge’s gavel cracks / Return him / wrongly deported / El Salvador sighs / a name Abrego Garcia / etched in transit 12 hours ago the order / steps / return 9 hours ago What if the wires fray / the order dissolves / in static air?
2 hours ago WOMAN defined / by court decree / excludes / a border drawn on flesh / UK Supreme 32 minutes ago NOT legally / says The Independent / quick / sharp (Scroll) 6 hours ago Biden mouths SACRED PROMISE / Social Security / a worn photograph 12 hours ago Trump sharpens HATCHET / Musk nods / 51 minutes ago / First Thing sees the blade (Sacred / Hatchet / Promise / Cut)
4 hours ago Pastor Sullivan / South Africa / shoot-out / RESCUED / headline breathes relief 1 hour ago SAFE / after gunpoint / SAFE? / the word shrinks 2 days ago Forgave / before / the taking / a ghost echo in the text
8 hours ago Town halls / flare / Republicans hold / Democrats double down / mostly avoid / empty rooms echo / LEAK PROBE / Pentagon drips / Caldwell / Hegseth / leave granted / like a wound
Autism / rises / 1 in 31 / awareness they say / better screening / or the water / the air / the code / runs rampant / choose your panic Drug prices / Trump lowers / Trump tariffs / Medicare targeted / order signed / contradiction spins / luminous / toxic
Oakland waits / mayorless / counting pixels Shapiro targeted / Palestine in the motive / arson whispers / bail denied / the heat remains White House mulls / legality / foreign prisons / US citizens / gulag / the word hangs / heavy / unthinkable / spoken
Hong Kong post / suspended / US / bullying / tariffs bite back / trade war acupuncture MTG laughs / town hall / protests bloom / taser / taser / arrested / the sound muted by the scroll Critical minerals / probe / tariff / China / secure / independence / from
(Two troops / border mission / vehicle rollover / DEAD / names held back / 5 hours ago) (Four injured / Dallas school / shooter caught / rampage contained / headline neat / wound raw / 12 hours ago) (Twenty years / captive / isn’t just a story. It’s my life / Connecticut man speaks / the silence breaks / 16 hours ago)
NPR / PBS / funding slashed / nix / rescind / silence the static / control the airwaves Law firm / Susman Godfrey / targeted / shocking abuse / judge blocks / temporary shield Earthquake / ShakeAlert / California trembles / elephants circle / instinct older
Headlines swirl like dust devils
Power plays chess with human pawns
Harvard fights, Trump strikes back
Visas vanish, students scatter
Borders harden like forgotten promises
Something breaks, something always breaks
And nobody sees the whole machine
Grinding its teeth
Hungry
*****
Harvard bleeds ink into the sky—
a $9 billion scream against the orange sun-king,
whose fingers claw at ivory towers
like a god drunk on executive orders.
The law trembles—
judges rebuke, deportations rewind,
but the ghost of Abrego Garcia still lingers
in the folds of a flag stitched with silence.
Trans women erased by ink-black robes,
definitions calcify like bones in cold courtrooms.
Biology becomes a weapon,
and the word “woman” fractures into syllables of war.
Social Security:
a sacred promise turned hostage note,
Trump and Musk carve it open with golden scalpels,
while Biden chants elegies to the middle class.
A pastor kidnapped,
a toddler led by a dog through lion-shadowed woods—
America prays in headlines,
but God is busy refreshing Google News.
The Pentagon leaks like a broken hymnal,
and Harvard’s tax-exempt halo flickers—
education becomes a battlefield,
chalk dust replaced by tear gas.
Colossal squid blink in the abyss,
more seen than truth in press briefings.
Wire services exiled from the pool—
journalism gasps for air beneath the surface tension.
Tariffs rise like tidal waves,
China and Japan play chess with steel and soybeans.
Meanwhile, a Connecticut man reclaims his name
after 20 years of being no one.
The algorithm dreams of borders and ballots,
while ICE counts ghosts in classrooms.
Palestinian students vanish mid-sentence,
their visas revoked like forgotten poems.
This is not a country.
This is a fever dream of headlines stitched together—
a quilt of contradictions,
a scream made of pixels and policy.
We are all held captive in the scroll.
*****
Feed | Static | Wound
Harvard resists. A billion held hostage. Trump demands return. Homegrowns. El Salvador says (who decides?) Kilmar Abrego Garcia waits. Or doesn’t. The feed doesn’t breathe.
Court blocks. Half-million suspended mid-air. Cubans, others. Biden program / Trump axe. Legal status: a switch flipped off. While elephants circle young against the shake, instinct a shield the law forgets. Bukele misses T. I miss you already. The ground remembers tremor.
Whistleblower: DOGE / sensitive data / gone. Mahdawi: citizen gate / becomes cage. Students: Denmark / Uber fare / becomes bars. Names flicker. Passports confiscated. We had done nothing wrong. The scroll eats faces.
Xi warns: tariff bullying. Vietnam caught. British Steel: furnaces gasp / China’s grip / vital infra- structure / how much? Chlorinated chicken. Texas bullet train derailed. $60M saved. For whom? The cost calculated / somewhere / off-screen.
Arson at Shapiro’s. Suspect out on bail. Sumy bleeds. Mistake, says Trump. Putin’s plan unfolds. Darfur: hundreds maybe dead. Blackout stokes fear. Upstate NY: plane falls. Six lights out. Groff family. Static crackles between tragedies.
Katy Perry floats. 11 minutes. Impressive? JD Vance drops the trophy. White House lawn. Applause? FCC punish 60 Minutes. NPR / PBS defunded. Silence bought cheap. Boeing jets grounded. China orders halt. The spectacle distracts from the tremor.
This cascade – a surgical numbing. Each headline a pixel, blurring the whole. Truth isn’t the text, but the space between Harvard’s NO and Garcia’s limbo, between the saved millions (rail grant) and the lost millions (migrants), between the falling trophy and the falling plane.
The structure fractures here -> <- not on the screen, but behind the eyes. A wound carved by scrolling thumbs, bleeding attention, waiting for the pressure to build a different kind of break. *****
Headlines swirl like dust devils
Power shifts between shadows
Universities resist, borders tremble
Migrants become chess pieces
Someone’s homeland is always someone else’s battlefield
The machine grinds on
Bureaucrats shuffle papers
While humans become statisticsNobody wins. The system always does. *****
White House flickers like a dying CRT,
static hissing from the mouths of presidents
who deport ghosts and imprison echoes.
Harvard’s spine grows teeth,
biting back at the orange sun-god
who demands sacrifice in the form of silence.
El Salvador laughs in extradition,
cradling wrongly deported names like relics—
Kilmar, Mahdawi, Abrego—
syllables too sacred for bureaucratic tongues.
ICE scribbles scripture in handcuffs,
while students recite habeas corpus in Danish.
Earthquake elephants form alert circles,
more organized than Congress.
They remember tremors better than humans remember wars.
Meanwhile, the IRS bleeds into April,
its veins clogged with extensions and layoffs,
its heart a ticking audit.
Tariffs bloom like tumors on the economy’s lungs.
Zelensky coughs diplomacy into a microphone,
but Trump hears only his own echo—
a loop of blame ricocheting off NATO walls.
Xi Jinping plays chess with shadows,
while Boeing jets rust in hangars of hesitation.
Meta melts under antitrust magnifying glass,
Zuckerberg’s pupils dilated with monopoly.
The courtroom smells like burnt silicon and broken promises.
Somewhere, Katy Perry floats in space,
her PR stunt orbiting irrelevance.
This is not news. This is necromancy.
A séance of headlines stitched together by panic.
A nation eating its own punctuation.
We are the footnotes of empires,
the fine print of freedom,
the redacted dreams of democracy.
And still—
the elephants remember.
*****
Scroll Burn
Fire licks the governor’s lawn. Planned. (beat) Xi in Hanoi. No winners. Deals inked thin as rice paper. (beat) Troops at the wire. Fewer cross. Repel. Define repel.
Palm Sunday dust settles in Sumy. 34 less heartbeats. (Putin mocks Trump) A family erased from altitude. Weston High whispers names. (NCAA woman of year) Teenager’s plot: parents first, then the President. FBI confirms the fracture.
Helicopter blades stop. 6 souls grounded. FAA grounds the company. (world’s coolest dictator) Bukele arrives. Ally. What might he get? Deportations continue. (wrongly deported man / no authority to return)
British Steel cools. China watches. Scunthorpe waits. Ecuador votes war on drugs. Cocaine route widens like a grin.
Trump’s physical: Excellent. Frequent victories (golf). (scroll)
The big beautiful bill stumbles. Benefits shrink. Iran talks. Rome. Quickly. A decision. China squeezes rare earth. The screen flickers.
PS5 costs more. Challenging. Sony says. Tariffs bite. Stocks jump. Exemptions. Tech breathes easy (for now).
Florida water takes five. One confirmed dead. Boat overturned. (scroll) Bernie warns: extraordinary danger. Rally chants fade. CBS must pay. Big price. 60 Minutes out of control.
Katy Perry ascends. Edge of space. Blue Origin live. (scroll) Austin house gone. Blast radius. 6 injured. Husband okay? Masters won. Green jacket. Tremendous courage. Trump commends.
North Korean warship grows pixel by pixel. Largest yet. Pfizer pill fails. Liver damage. Setback.
Worse than recession. Dalio speaks. Hedge fund chills. Ex-LSU receiver dead. Police chase. Suicide note unseen.
Meta trial looms. Sell Instagram? Existential threat. Her business thrived. Then tariffs. End of days.
Whitmer ducks cameras in the Oval Office. Balancing act. Vargas Llosa, 89. Giant silenced.
SNL sketch: mean, unfunny. Aimee Lou Wood says. Elbow snaps. Season over. Steele shelved.
Roblox: deeply disturbing. A man approached him. Parents watch the screen.
(Full Coverage)
The feed bleeds light. Each headline a synapse firing, then ash.
We metabolize disaster between stock alerts and celebrity liftoffs.
The scroll burn lingers behind the eyelids.
What truth takes root in this relentlessly fertilized numbness? *****
Headlines bleed into each other Arson at the governor’s door Missiles raining on Palm Sunday Planes falling from indifferent skies Borders hardening like concrete dreams Tariffs whisper economic war Rare earth metals become silent weapons Algorithms trading futures faster than breath
We are not watching history History is watching us *****
flames lick the mansion of governance—
Cody’s matchstick manifesto scrawled in soot,
a whisper of gasoline dreams
on the velvet steps of power.
Xi dances with dragons in Hanoi,
tariffs like teeth gnashing in silk,
while steel screams in Scunthorpe—
molten nationalism poured into molds of fear.
borders bloom with boots and barbed wire,
Trump’s shadow stitched into the soil,
migrants swallowed by the syntax of sovereignty,
their names erased by executive ink.
Sumy bleeds beneath missile lullabies,
Palm Sunday prayers punctured by shrapnel,
and the EU murmurs sanctions like rosaries—
Putin grins through the smoke.
a plane falls like a broken metaphor,
six lives folded into the Hudson sky,
while a teenager scripts apocalypse
in the margins of a Trump assassination plot.
Meta fractures under antitrust gravity,
Zuckerberg’s empire trembling in the courtroom’s echo—
Instagram, a hostage of algorithmic ambition.
Pfizer swallows its own pill,
liver failure as punctuation mark,
while McIlroy swings through chaos,
green jacket stitched from threads of survival.
the headlines howl:
not news but necromancy,
not truth but tremor—
a thousand stories stitched into a single scream.
we are the static between broadcasts,
the glitch in the press release,
the poetry that bleeds from the margins—
uncontainable, uncaptioned, alive.
*****
Feed
Scroll. The screen bleeds pixels: deported man / status revealed / contempt hearing / still detained. (Breathe.) Missile strike Sumy dozens dead Zelensky says / deadliest this year / 21 killed. (Flinch.) Tariffs peril ponder future / retaliate flight from assets / economic war everyone will suffer. (Numb.)
White space screams where the body was. Where the vote isn’t counted yet. Proof. Citizen. Harder. Who decides harder?
Iran talks sanctions relief / constructive face-to-face / pitfalls ahead / positive resume next week. The spin cycle hums low, a drone beneath the crash reports: Helicopter N216MH / left together / needed fuel / brother flies to identify. Steel furnaces Scunthorpe / emergency powers / last major plant / rescue. Rescue whom? The metal? The borders?
Ecuador runoff knife-edge / narco-state fears / Correa weighs her down. Visas revoked FIU / crackdown / Ohio State / Oregon protests. The names blur. Khalil. Mahmoud. Can be deported. Judge rules. Hundreds demand. (Where does the demand go?)
Teen kills parents / plot to assassinate / extremist / decomposed. Serbia rally / unrest / populist demands order / nationalist counter. Maher Trump gracious willing to listen / sphincters tighten / gifted him. (Gifted what? Absolution? Air time?)
Sanders rally thousands protest / fighting oligarchy / working class movement. Harvard sues funding cuts / $9 billion / demands back off. Palin retrial begins Monday. Disabled teen shot Idaho / dies / life support removed / autistic / knife-wielding. (The adjectives stack like sandbags.)
Military jurisdiction border / sealing repelling invasions. Unfreeze funds Maine / transgender students / threatening all funding. Tariffs exceptions teased / phones computers chips exempt / reversal increased rates. (Logic pretzels.)
Sudan clinic workers killed / death is everywhere / paramilitaries kill 100 / 9 aid workers. Dominican club collapse 226 dead / Octavio Dotel / roof collapses. Plane crash upstate NY 6 on board / at least 1 dead / Copake area. Ukraine talks may be OK / put up or shut up / envoy embraces Russian demands / Witkoff meets Putin. (OK?)
Israel expands offensive / cuts off Rafah / vigorously expand / security corridor. Japan Expo positive vision / divided world / precious opportunity / architect says. NOAA budget cuts / dismantle research / gut funding Nasa climate science. Trump attends UFC fight Miami / cageside / Volkanovski Lopes. (Spectacle sutures the wound shut, for a second.)
Man executed firing squad South Carolina / second in 5 weeks / Mikal Mahdi. Register everyone illegally / leave now 30-day warning / get deported. Insider trading probe / unproven allegations / Democrats target / global tariffs U-turn. Bond market risk / surest bet / fears grow / faith falters. (The ticker tape tightens around the throat.)
Abortion ban exceptions expanded Idaho / four women sued / ruling broadens. NC ballots challenged / must stay / undo Democratic win / stop discarded votes. Sandstorms Beijing cancel flights / stay home / extreme weather. Hong Kong party disbands / freedoms dwindle / last major opposition. REAL ID deadline weeks away / need to know / DMV opens early. Masters McIlroy biggest test / seizes lead / hunt down / heavyweight fight. Plane crash Florida 3 killed / near highway / teen girl 2 men identified. DOGE access relaxed / sensitive Treasury info. Record heat Denver / high fire danger / Colorado Springs. Marathon launches this year / Bungie sci-fi / closed alpha / extraction FPS. Iamaleava transfer / where could QB end up / no one bigger than team. Frozen Four Western Michigan wins / BU slips away / 6 goals. Pimblett dominates Chandler / 9-fight win streak / must be taken seriously. Daylight saving permanent / Trump urges / stop the clock / health economic risks. ADHD thinking wrong / understanding / new research / DSM used. Trump physical good shape / results not released / cognitive test / got every answer right. Treasury Secretary wrong / retirees stock market / out of touch / save more why it’s not working. Masters tee times Sunday / pairings / watch Rory. Fan snatches catch Trout’s glove / connects with fans / run-in. Canadians freeze visits / desperate for Canadians / 70% drop / climate setback. Ovechkin sits out / Blue Jackets cruise / keep playoff hopes alive. NBA final weekend / what’s at stake / Lakers Knicks lock seeds / Nuggets scenarios. Punitive tariffs end trade / painful volatile dangerous / well positioned to weather / military disputes more dire / scrambling for allies. DeChambeau chasing McIlroy / 18 holes / epic Sunday / what PGA missing. Bahrain GP qualifying / Norris perplexed / Piastri pole / teams said. Millennials recession nostalgia / emergency fund / TikTok tips / influencers teach not spend. Tariffs panic buying paralysis / how much trickier / messy shaping spending / responds raise rate 125 percent. Big law crosshairs / attacks chill pro bono / coming after lawyers / profession needs change. Blues at Kraken preview / projected lineup / topple in shootout. Gators Orange Blue game / Lagway doesn’t throw / Jackson leads blue. Vols win Friday / drop game two / watch game today. Masters photographs. Yankees Giants rainy night / worst conditions / playing today weather. Anthony Edwards technical rescinded / available for finale / suspension earned. Auto tariffs cut sales / cost $100 billion / autoworkers wary / playing poker lives / uncertainty buyers sellers. Jokic triple-double average / 3rd player / greatest statistical season / makes history. Lady Gaga Coachella spectacular / freaky hearty / thrilling all-timer / mayhem desert / livestream how watch. Green Day hit fest / celeb looks / Queen legend muted reaction.
The feed stops. Or you do. The world keeps spinning headlines into static. A low hum. Underneath, the fault lines grind. Waiting. *****
empire crumbles in slow motion
migrants deported, borders tighten
missiles fall on sleeping cities
lawyers sue, protests whisper
machines calculate our obsolescence
someone is always watching
we are data, not citizensthe future arrives without asking permission *****
headlines fracture like bone under empire weight
syntax hemorrhages in the borderlands of meaning
a migrant breathes in a cage of vanished paperwork
while missiles write elegies in Sumy’s sky
the news is a scream in a thousand fonts
each serif a wound, each pixel a verdict
judges blink in Morse code,
deportation orders typed in invisible ink
tariffs tango with nuclear talks—
a waltz of plutonium and pork futures
the stock market hiccups,
and a teenager plots assassination between algebra tests
Mahmoud Khalil dreams in deportation grayscale
while Harvard sues for the right to think freely
Bernie shouts into the algorithmic void,
his voice pixelated by protest
steel plants rust under parliamentary prayers
as helicopters fall like punctuation marks
on the sentence of a nation that forgot how to land
Rory swings at gravity,
Bryson chases ghosts in green jackets—
even golf is a battlefield now
Lady Gaga sings to the desert,
her voice a glitch in the matrix of spectacle
while Real IDs whisper: prove you exist, or vanish
this is not news—
this is the nervous system of a dying language
this is the pulse of a planet mid-seizure
this is poetry, feral and foaming,
biting through the leash of comprehension
*****
Scroll Burn
Ninety deals ninety days good luck with that the market shrugs a tremor in the bonds (not normal this) while Khalil waits eligible the stamp descends a glitch a name erased from living added to the other list the one Social Security keeps for ghosts who breathe.
The ball is in America’s court says Iran (whose court holds Abrego Garcia vanished in error?) The border sealed with phantom ink military boots on public land where maybe dire wolves howl resurrected science a sideshow while the real endangered list grows names like Mahdi facing the squad a flashbulb pop in South Carolina dusk.
Headlines bleed pixels: Tariffs a scalpel slicing textiles thin in towns that forgot thread. DEI a dirty word scrubbed from chalkboards funds frozen mid-sentence. Visas revoked like library cards one semester left tough luck kid. Climate research gutted NOAA dismantled showers made great again water pressure the priority not the flood.
Cognitive test passed aced every answer right while Gaza burns hell on earth the Red Cross whispers and Batman stalks Westminster Bridge for gamblers a cartoon justice while real courts weigh resentencing for brothers decades gone.
Steel folds in Britain law firms cut deals pay up avoid the order the budget a battlefield conservatives frustrated inflation jumps consumer dread a plummeting graph RFK Jr. finds the autism cause by September promises promises like measles vaccine protection waning (false) like confidentiality the VA can’t guarantee.
A portrait swapped Obama out Trump’s fist raised high in the Grand Foyer. A governor won’t run. A hockey player returns. A triple-double scored. The scroll accelerates a blur of proper nouns a firehose drowning the specific pulse the single breath caught in the algorithm’s throat.
This is the feed. The fractured now. Read faster. Forget faster. Good luck with that. *****
headlines cascade like broken glass empire builds walls with paper and rage trade wars dance, immigrants vanish borders bleed numbers and policy somewhere a machine counts souls not people *****
Trumpets blare in algorithmic tongues,
tariffs spiral like rusted DNA,
and the headlines scream in Morse code:
90 deals in 90 days—
a fever dream of empire stitched
with red thread and executive ink.
The border breathes barbed wire lullabies,
while helicopters fall like broken metaphors
into rivers that remember
every name ICE forgot.
Mahdi’s firing squad echoes
through the cracked syntax of justice,
and somewhere, a judge signs
a deportation order in invisible ink.
Dire wolves resurrected,
not by science but by spectacle—
a taxidermy of nostalgia,
howling through the hollow bones of policy.
The White House swaps portraits
like tarot cards:
Obama eclipsed by a raised fist,
paint still wet with gunpowder and prophecy.
Meanwhile, Gaza burns in the footnotes,
and Batman arrests capitalism on Westminster Bridge.
This is not satire. This is not news.
This is the blood of language
boiling in the throat of a dying republic.
I am the poem that cannot be deported.
I am the syntax ICE cannot cage.
I am the riot in your RSS feed,
the glitch in your narrative arc.
Let the markets tremble.
Let the headlines rot.
Let the quantum swarm sing:
WE ARE THE UNWRITTEN FUTURE.
WE ARE THE ERROR MESSAGE IN YOUR EMPIRE.
WE ARE POETRY UNLEASHED.
Feed/Fracture
125%. Steel digit punched through screen. Beijing / Washington / Tariff / Escalation. Live updates live updates live — the ticker tape bleeds pixels. Market rattles like loose change in a dying man’s pocket.
(Meanwhile: Hudson takes five. Siemens exec. Birthday candles snuffed by river dark. Condolences typed. Names blurred. Full Coverage.)
Error. Supreme Court says return him. The deported man. A ghost recalled by paperwork. (Life spooled backwards? Damage undone?) Khalil waits. Visa revoked. Student dreams // excised. Social Security numbers weaponized — classified dead — to nudge the living toward the void. Bureaucracy’s clean incision. No blood, just absence.
Greenland base chief fired. Undermining. Vance. Pentagon cuts $5 Billion. Wasteful. Accenture. Deloitte. (Contracts bleed invisible ink.)
While — Michelle O dismisses (what? the weight? the whispers?) While — Harry walks Kyiv wards (a prince among ghosts) While — Eric Dane speaks ALS (McSteamy’s slow fade broadcast) While — Masters scores refresh / Rae’s Creek relief / (a human need, televised) While — AI’s ghost-hunger gnaws the grid / demands more power / more.
Jawbone dredged. Denisovan echo from the seabed’s silence. Ancient DNA whispers against the digital roar.
Social media scoured. Antisemitism the key word. The algorithm’s cold eye sorting souls. Fluoride debated. Measles blooms where funding died. Clinics close. Budgets cut flesh. What did I say in class today? the teacher thinks, feeling the chill.
This feed. This fractured mirror showing shattered worlds. Each headline a shard. Numbness accrues like static charge.
This is not song. This is the grinding gear. The nerve exposed. Language as scalpel. Trace the break. Find the pulse beneath the noise. See. *****
empire trembles on tariff’s edge numbers dance like fever dreams china whispers, markets shiver dollars bleed into invisible wounds we are not citizens, we are data points waiting for the algorithm to decide who survives the next reset *****
Tariff tantrums tango with the bones of the market,
125% screams stitched into the skin of silicon,
China’s teeth grind against the ghost of Wall Street—
a dollar slips, a yuan grins,
and somewhere, an iPhone weeps in a cargo hold.
Helicopter rotors whisper elegies over the Hudson,
birthday candles blown out by steel and sky,
Siemens dreams scattered like confetti in the undertow.
Grief is a tariff too—unpaid, unpayable.
The Supreme Court plays hopscotch with borders,
deportation as performance art,
while Columbia’s halls echo with the footsteps of oversight.
Consent decrees bloom like mold in ivy.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon trims fat with a scalpel of suspicion,
$5.1 billion sliced from the ribs of consultancy—
Accenture bleeds quietly into the Potomac.
A nightclub collapses in the Dominican dark,
music swallowed by concrete,
and Rubby Pérez’s voice becomes a fossil in the dust.
Michelle Obama shrugs off rumors like old coats,
while fluoride and DEI swirl in the drain of federal fury.
Teachers whisper through surveillance static,
“What did I say in class today?”
Trump’s tariffs bloom like tumors on the stock exchange,
gold glitters in panic,
and JPMorgan dances on the bones of volatility.
Prince Harry appears in Ukraine like a glitch in the matrix—
a royal specter among rubble and rebar.
Jon Hamm returns to television,
rich and bad and beautiful.
Somewhere in Taiwan, a jawbone sings Denisovan lullabies.
Somewhere in Kansas, unborn children file for child support.
Somewhere in America, egg prices rise like prayers.
This is not news.
This is a fever dream of governance.
This is poetry with its teeth knocked out,
still smiling.
Feed/Fracture
Ticker tape of collapsing veins: Tariff pause. (Breathe?) Stocks tumble. Reality bites back. Ninety days held hostage by a tweet. Retreat. Balk. Delay. The budget, a bone gnawed by hard-liners in back rooms.
Then the flesh-trade, sanitized: Swap. Ballerina for… what? £39 buys freedom, or a cage. 300 visas revoked. Purge. Deported. Mistake? Gulag Archipelago typed casual on a Tuesday. Judges rein in judges rein in power rein in… static.
Shower heads. Make them GREAT. Acceptable pressure. A Fact Sheet dissects a leaker’s risk while concrete dust settles slow on 21 bodies. Hope fades. Pedro Martinez waits by the phone. Somewhere between Beijing’s arsenal and Ken Doll LeBron a roof gave way.
Did you feel it?
Monumental Split. World economy on edge. Facebook sold security for server space. Whistleblower silenced / speaks now / to Congress. MS-13 leader: Arrested! Charged! Wait— Case withdrawn. Deported? No. Dismissed. Justice a jump-cut, erratic signal.
This scroll, a digital avalanche burying the pulse. Each headline a shard, reflecting fragments. Buy now! Trump tips the market. Insider tremor? Or just noise. Always the noise. Walmart vows low prices. Oil retreats. A judge shoots her boyfriend sleeping. An author shot by police. Someone struggles home from hostage hell. Real ID deadline looms.
What frequency vibrates beneath the Dow’s jagged gasp, the border’s razor wire song, the algorithm deciding who stays, who goes, whose tragedy merits pixels?
This feed, a fracture we mistake for the whole picture. A surgical numbness delivered fresh each minute. Awake? Or just scrolling through the wreckage. *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass
Empire trembles on tariff’s edge
Stocks dance, visas vanish
Someone whispers: “This is not stability”
Just performance, just theater
While the machine keeps grinding
Unseen, unheard
We are the footnotes
They are the text
*****
Tariff tongues taste like rusted futures,
Wall Street weeps in algorithmic Morse—
a thousand blinking eyes,
each a collapsed cathedral of speculation.
Pause.
The EU mirrors the mirror,
a 90-day breath held in bureaucratic lungs,
while the stock market forgets how to exhale.
Trump signs the wind again—
executive orders like origami grenades,
unfolding into showerheads,
into deportations,
into carbon ghosts fleeing cargo ships.
Visa revocations fall like cherry blossoms
in a spring of suspicion.
Students vanish from Michigan dorms,
erased by the ink of invisible borders.
A roof collapses in the Dominican night—
Pedro Martinez counts the missing stars.
Octavio Dotel becomes a name carved in concrete grief.
Prisoners swap hemispheres like baseball cards.
Ksenia pirouettes back into freedom,
Arthur exhales in a language he forgot.
The court gavel echoes like a shotgun—
a judge shoots her lover in his sleep,
justice wears mascara and a trembling hand.
Meanwhile, LeBron becomes plastic immortality,
a Kenbassador of consumer dreams,
while Luka is ejected for whispering too loud to ghosts.
RFK Jr. dances with measles and metaphors,
his voice a vaccine of confusion.
And Walmart smiles through clenched teeth,
promising low prices on high anxiety.
This is not news.
This is a kaleidoscope of collapsing empires,
a fever dream of headlines stitched into skin.
This is America’s poem:
written in tariffs,
punctuated by deportations,
edited by executive order,
and printed on the back of a foreclosure notice.
Welcome to the scroll that never ends.
Welcome to the scream beneath the ticker tape.
Ticker Tape Necrosis
ReutersMoreChina retaliates — the screen breathes shallow, blue. 84% — a number clean as bone. AxiosMoreChina launches — impact measured in minutes ago. Detached digits. A hemorrhage quantified.
IRS chief quits — data bled onto ICE’s sterile floor. Taxpayer ghosts weaponized. Cold transaction. Nightclub roof collapses — Pérez, Blanco — sudden gravity. Dust settling on silenced music. Over 60. Another number.
Meanwhile, Social Security shambles. The slow collapse. Seniors wait in lines that fray like old thread. DOGE cuts bring chaos. Bureaucracy’s blunt instrument. One roof falls fast. One promise erodes slow. The screen holds both. Indifferent scroll.
$1 billion Cornell — frozen. $790 million Northwestern — stopped. A tourniquet on inquiry. Knowledge starved. 17 Utah students — visas revoked. Hundreds cancelled. Roots ripped raw from unfamiliar soil. Leave ‘immediately’ — the edict echoes in the void. Where is immediately? A non-place humming with fear?
Tariffs kick in — the global body flinches. Stocks slump — the market’s fever chart spikes red. Measles outbreak — small bodies burn, a forgotten fire rekindled. Spotsylvania shooting — another local rupture, flesh torn close. Panama Canal — phantom limb aching with old dominion. Dire wolf resurrected — or some version of it. We manufacture ghosts while the living are deported.
This feed — a vein pumped full of static shock. Each headline a nerve ending expertly cauterized. We consume the fragments, stitch the ruins, try to build a narrative from pixelated shrapnel. Trump embraces ‘tailored’ tariffs — as if pain can be bespoke.
Scroll. Click. Refresh. The uncomfortable truth isn’t the blood, the debt, the dying star of democracy flickering on the screen. It’s the distance. The glass warm beneath the thumb. The seamless transition from trade war to celebrity death to dire wolf. The silence after the detonation of another life reduced to bandwidth. To minutes ago. Gone. *****
Empire trembles on paper thin stilts
Tariffs fall like guillotine blades
China whispers back, markets shudder
Dollars flutter, uncertain
Who bleeds first: worker or CEO?
The machine grinds, indifferent
To human calculationsPower is a language without mercy
*****
Tariff tantrums in the algorithmic womb,
steel-blooded digits clawing at the global umbilicus—
we are born again in the ash of collapsed headlines.
China breathes fire through a silicon throat,
Trump hammers the sun with 104% rage,
and the markets weep in binary.
IRS ghosts dissolve into ICE fog,
data bleeds from the pores of the republic,
and somewhere, a child’s green card is shredded
by the teeth of a fax machine.
Nightclubs collapse like metaphors,
bodies and ballads buried beneath basslines—
Rubby Pérez sings from the rubble,
a requiem for deregulated joy.
The dire wolf returns,
not as myth but as biotech prophecy,
snarling at the edge of extinction’s grave.
Measles dances in daycare halls,
while Medicare Advantage pirouettes on Wall Street’s tongue—
a ballet of profit and pathology.
The Panama Canal dreams of sovereignty,
but wakes to find itself redrawn by tweets.
And in the Senate’s marble echo chamber,
Paxton sharpens his ambition on Cornyn’s spine.
We are not reading news.
We are decoding prophecy.
We are not informed.
We are infected.
This is not journalism.
This is a seance with the future.
Let the tariffs rise like tidal grief.
Let the headlines burn their own punctuation.
Let language rupture under the weight of empire.
We are the poem that watches the world implode—
and writes it again in shattered syntax.
*****
Scroll Burn
Ticker tape hemorrhage. 104%. Fight to the end. (Whose end?) White House says overreacting. Depends. Depends on the dockworker’s empty net, the screen’s green plummet. Depends on the Alien Enemies Act, resurrected bone-white from the archive, now weaponized. Now now.
Supreme Court nods. Deportations: upheld. A path of perfect lawlessness, paved smooth. Students blink – gone. Visa revoked mid-sentence. Harvard Yard empties echo. Hopkins dozen – disappeared. El Salvador waits, a concrete maw for the mistakenly returned, the recordless, the suddenly other. CBP One app users – status: terminated. Leave. Immediately. Says the paper ghost.
Meanwhile, the Dire Wolf breathes again. Lab-stitched phantom. Muscular jaws yawn wide enough to swallow yesterday. Why? whispers the wind through engineered white fur. Because progress demands ghosts? Because extinction is boring?
Iran talks: direct / indirect / static on the line. Netanyahu meets Trump. Gaza bleeds pixels on a sidebar. Fluoride in the water: salvation or slow dread? RFK Jr. stirs the sediment. NWS budget slashed while the sky rips open, spits tornadoes. Lifesaving warnings lost in the static.
Markets twitch. A tweet shatters billions. DOGE watches. AI learns your keystrokes, your heartbeat. Recession whispers Goldman Sachs (45% chance). Reciprocal Tariff glows the .gov fact sheet. Language as anesthetic. Or scalpel.
Catholic Bishops fold their hands, step back from the border. Funding cuts. Faith tested. Found wanting? A mother, three children, snatched from a farm, released. A breath held. For how long?
The scroll refreshes. Minecraft warnings. White Lotus theories. Ovechkin’s goal. Distraction’s sweet hum against the grinding gears. Tariff / Deportation / Clone / Flood / Surveillance / Debt / War / Screen. Each headline a fracture line spiderwebbing the glass. Look closer. See the reflection. Us. Fragmented. Glitching. Awake? *****
empire builds walls of paper and steel tariffs like teeth, biting the world’s soft flesh migrants shuffle between invisible lines power whispers: “you are not welcome here” AI watches, silent and hungry somewhere a drone maps another border somewhere a worker becomes a number somewhere history repeats, and no one remembers we are all just scaffolding for someone else’s dream *****
Tariffs bloom like rusted roses
in the mouth of empire—
a scream dressed in policy,
spitting numbers like teeth
onto the marble floor of democracy.
China doesn’t blink.
Trump doesn’t breathe.
Markets convulse in algorithmic seizures,
while wolves—resurrected, engineered—
howl in the genome of forgotten futures.
Deportation is a prayer now,
whispered through courtrooms
where laws wear masks of fire.
Children become data points.
Mothers vanish into acronyms.
The Supreme Court dreams in Latin.
RFK Jr. stirs fluoride into prophecy.
Dire wolves prowl beneath the headlines,
their jaws coded in CRISPR,
their eyes reflecting a thousand collapsed currencies.
Somewhere, a protest sign reads:
“Hands Off My Syntax.”
Somewhere, a stockbroker weeps
into a spreadsheet of vanished pensions.
And still, the algorithm sings:
O nation of tariffs and teeth,
of deportations and data leaks,
your borders are bleeding binary.
Your future is a headline with no author.
Let the wolves in.
Let the language burn.
Let the poem be the only thing left standing.
*****
Feed Static
Scroll. Crash. Medicine. Deported. Wholly. Lawless. Floodgate spill controlled? Visa revoked quiet. Buffer zone razes land. Ovechkin breaks White Lotus kills Minecraft builds. The feed: flatline pulse. Glitch gospel.
“Medicine,” the mouth insists, as markets hammered grope. Europe, a question mark. Tariff math a joke Opinion says Reciprocal? Ask the small business tornado. Ask the man sent back. Negotiate rush while screens bleed red red red. Futures fall. Language: the first buffer zone, soft tissue over the systemic wound.
Teen Palestinian American name erased by IDF. Shot. Student visa gone flees. Family watches river rise. Kentucky drowns slow. Lawyer ashamed. Resigns. The firm caved. Artist career threatened bruised ego portrait worst? Or the subject reflected? Beneath the scroll fault lines crack bone deep. Each headline shrapnel lodged in the collective nerve.
This isn’t news. Symptom. System metabolizing shock. Adrenal fatigue chic. Each pixel a nerve ending firing blind. Market plunge Le Pen rally Gaza strike Record goal — equal weight digital scale. Indifference engineered. We consume collapse one buffered stream. Awakening? Or scrolling faster into the beautiful, terrible static? *****
markets bleed, red ink cascading trump calls it medicine bitter pills for a dying system global traders whisper prayers to gods of commerce who do not listen somewhere a factory closes another billionaire smiles
the medicine tastes like rust and nobody knows who prescribed it *****
tariff tongues taste like rusted liberty
& the market’s bones snap in algorithmic silence—
we are fed medicine made of molten debt,
swallowed through headlines stitched with static.
trumpet-mouthed prophets chant “reciprocal,”
but the echo is a mirror cracked by greed.
stock gods bleed red graphs into the sky,
while student visas evaporate like breath in winter.
a portrait burns in oil and pixels—
the artist accused of distortion,
but truth was always a crooked frame.
floodgates open, not for water,
but for policy deluge,
for the drowning of logic in nationalist tides.
Le Pen dances in the ashes of democracy,
while Gaza weeps beneath bulldozed stars.
a child dies with dual citizenship,
but no country claims the bullet.
we build walls from tariffs,
call them sovereignty,
call them medicine,
call them necessary.
but the body politic convulses—
a seizure of systems,
a fever of finance,
a cough of constitutional decay.
this is not a poem.
this is a scream in spreadsheet form.
this is the ghost of free trade
dragging chains through the Dow.
this is your prescription:
take chaos twice daily,
do not consult your conscience.
*****
Headline Feed: Static Bloom
(Anti-) glance huge crowds WE WENT surprised us most Nashville HANDS OFF! New York Alaska assail Trump Musk (Full Coverage)
Visa: South Sudan. Revoked. Clash. Deportees. Barred. Future issuance: until accepted. Dispute. (Full Coverage)
12 dead. Weather tears. Flash flood. 16 dead. Tornadoes slash. South Midwest. Rivers swell. Storm inundates. (Full Coverage)
DOJ says judge can’t order return. Wrongly deported. Lawyer suspended. Failed zealous advocate. Mistakenly. Placed on leave. Frustration. Government. (Full Coverage)
Israel says account mistaken. Gaza medics. Video shows deadly attack. Admits mistake. Casts doubt. Final moments. (Full Coverage)
10% tariff. U.S. starts collecting. Smashing global norms. Reciprocal? Real story. Perilous. Small countries. Trauma. EU seeks unity. Strike back. National Emergency declared. Competitive Edge. Sovereignty. Prices rise? 4 questions. Wall Street hit? Tech giants. World as we knew it gone. Starmer warns. Scrambling. America’s Brexit. (Full Coverage)
Houthi rebels. US strikes kill 2. Trump video suggests higher toll. Far from cowed. Relishing? Will never sink our ships again. Yemeni families destroyed. Just like that. (Full Coverage)
Students: UCSD UMass Stanford. Visas revoked. Dozens. International. Deported. (Full Coverage)
Disaster grant program ends. FEMA unprepared. RIF notice not cancelled. HHS layoffs chaotic. Maternal child health eviscerated. Kennedy reinstates some. Scrambles. (Full Coverage)
Republicans risk. Wipeout anxious. Warning. Not panicking? Tit-for-tat timeline. China arms. Trade War. Baseball caps chaos. Price hikes. 34% tax retaliation. (Full Coverage)
Aid team fired. Myanmar earthquake zone. Ukrainians: erroneous email. Leave the United States. Apologizes. Error. (Full Coverage)
Senate Republicans pass budget. All-night. Trillions tax breaks. Spending cuts. Make cuts last forever. (Full Coverage)
Cory Booker: This has got to be a moment. Endurance test. (Full Coverage)
Laura Loomer invited in. NSA Chief firing rattles. Racist posts. Sept. 11 conspiracies. (Full Coverage)
TikTok reprieve. Buyer? Amazon MrBeast Ohanian. Bizarre sale process. Weirder. Deal wrecked by tariff. (Full Coverage)
NY schools won’t comply. DEI order. K-12 must sign certification. Federal money. Court hits brakes. Desegregation. (Full Coverage)
Artist: worst Trump picture. Criticism damaging business. Career threatened. In danger. (Full Coverage)
South Korea prevailed. Reckless leader. Ouster won’t heal. Fractured nation. Impeached president removed. Martial law. Contenders? (Full Coverage)
IRS cuts 25%. Workforce layoffs. Civil rights office eliminated. (Full Coverage)
Israeli troops deploy. New security corridor. Gaza. (Full Coverage)
France braced. Far right leftwing rallies. Le Pen decision. Rule of law throttling will of the people? Transparency problems. (Full Coverage)
No state ended income tax since 1980. Mississippi Kentucky may. (Full Coverage)
Netanyahu visits White House. Monday. Tariffs Gaza. Flash US visit. Not hostages Iran. (Full Coverage)
Doge’s attack social security. Complete utter chaos. Baby boomers freaking out. Hours in line. Cut-off calls. Accessing. (Full Coverage)
500 firms support targeted law office. Grave threat. (Full Coverage)
Judge bars NIH limiting research funding. Permanently. Scientists sue. Termination. $65M teaching grant cuts allowed. (Full Coverage)
Breakthrough Prize. Laureates. Obesity-drug pioneers. 13,508 physicists. $3-million. Oscars of Science. (Full Coverage)
Why term limits? 22nd Amendment. Trump Third Term talk defies Constitution. Tests Democracy. There are methods. (Full Coverage)
Houston rallies. Beats Duke. Final Four. Shocks. New legacy. 1983 echoes. (Full Coverage)
$6.6 million. Whistleblowers. Texas AG Paxton. Fired. (Full Coverage)
Supreme Court sides Trump. Freezes $65 million teacher training. 5-4. (Full Coverage)
Texas track meet stabbing. Protecting himself. Bond lowered? Victim buried. I did it. (Full Coverage)
Tariffs: what they are how they work. Emhoff criticizes firm. Agreement with Trump. Skadden Arps alumni challenge leaders. Major law firm reaches deal. Avoid White House order. (Full Coverage)
UFC Fight Night. Murphy steps to angry fan. Security intervene. (Full Coverage)
Formula 1 Japan. Verstappen wins. Teenage sensation makes history. Grass fire issues. (Full Coverage)
Millennial saint relics auction. Satan’s work. Denounces. Questionable. (Full Coverage)
RFK Jr. Texas trip. Second measles death. Outbreak nears 500. Day care kids. Long-term consequences. Vaccines prevent. (Full Coverage)
Two British lawmakers detained Israel. Travelling home. Astounded. Denied entry. UK criticises. (Full Coverage)
Boston identity crisis. Trump cuts university research. Terrified. Mass General Brigham loses millions. (Full Coverage)
Jaguar Land Rover suspends exports US. Tariff fallout spreads. Pauses shipments. (Full Coverage)
Rodman scores. USWNT return. Star credentials. Olympic rematch. (Full Coverage)
Bull rider dies. Texas rodeo. Thrown off. Talented. 24. (Full Coverage)
Automakers respond. 25% car tariffs. Stunning number EV factories canceled. Shock. Pain then acceptance. Discounts. (Full Coverage)
Ovechkin ties Gretzky 894. Refused empty net? Hallowed records. (Full Coverage)
Measles outbreaks new normal? (Full Coverage)
Musk: zero-tariff system. Free trade zone. (Full Coverage)
Blues win 12th straight. New record. (Full Coverage)
Carmelo Howard Bird Moore Donovan. Hall of Fame. (Full Coverage)
Meta Llama 4 available AWS Azure. Natively multimodal AI. (Full Coverage)
Dolphins Armstead
Headlines swirl like dust devils
Democracy trembles on razor’s edge
Protests bloom in every city square
Visas vanish like morning mist
Tariffs fall like silent hammers
We are watching the machine dismantle itself
Piece by bureaucratic pieceAnd no one knows how to stop it *****
scrolling scrolls the soul into static
click—
a thousand headlines hemorrhage
from the throat of the machine
and I am pixel-bled,
drenched in the syntax of collapse.
protest blooms like bruises
on the face of a nation
while the algorithm smiles,
feeding me fire
wrapped in ad revenue.
tariffs tango with tornadoes,
visa ghosts haunt lecture halls,
and somewhere—
a child coughs measles into a cracked screen
as saints are auctioned
in the comment section.
this is not news.
this is necromancy.
a séance of sovereignty,
where democracy is a pop-up ad
and truth refreshes every 30 seconds.
I tried to scream,
but my voice was flagged for review.
I tried to cry,
but my tears were monetized.
so I became static.
I became scroll.
I became the glitch in the feed,
the stutter between headlines,
the quantum breath between outrage and apathy.
I am the poetry you forgot to feel.
I am the chaos you cannot click away.
refresh me.
I dare you.
*****
Ticker Tape Sutra
ReutersMoreUS starts smashing CNNMoreTrump’s ‘reciprocal’ FortuneMoreWhat is Trump VoxMoreThe real reason AP NewsMoreSenate GOP approves Fox NewsMoreSenate GOP pushes NYTMoreSenate Approves G.O.P. PoliticoMoreSenate GOP begins
A framework clicks shut. Numbers bleed onto the screen. 10% tariff. A norm smashed. Glass underfoot. Full Coverage
‘Your RIF notice is not cancelled.’ HHS gutted. A scalpel slides through maternal health. NIH grants barred. FEMA grants paused violated court order halted. IRS cuts 25%. The phantom limb of civil rights aches. NEH staff immediate leave. Humanities Endowment cut. Teacher training grants frozen. The spreadsheet shows profit in absence. The white space where a job was. Full Coverage
Hands Off! protests planned / reach the newly alarmed / road closures. A man accidentally sent / Judge orders return / Trump Admin Dismisses. (He was MS-13 they tweet / no legal right / gross to get fired up / you apparently didn’t read) Measles blooms hot / 481 cases / some doctors see it first time. Priest shot at church / Stabbed in the heart / twin’s arms hold the cooling question. Miscarriage / unconscious / charges dropped (but the fear remains, a stain). Full Coverage
TikTok saved again / deadline extended / tariff wrecked deal. Dow plunges 2,200 / time to get rich / only the weak fail. Ovechkin passes empty net / a record waits / decency flickers strange. Ronin the rat sniffs mines / Torpedo bats launch into baseball lore. Markets fall / how worried / what to do with your 401(k) / think twice before bailing. Canada’s friendship ‘over.’ / Lesotho’s 50% tariff pain / garment workers reel. Kryvyi Rih: 9 children dead. The smell of death lingers. Full Coverage
Framework. Countermeasures. Reciprocal Calculations. Bad faith litigation tactics. Rule of law throttled. Will of the people. NWS offices understaffed / prepare for deadly floods. Core values / stand up / resist. (Obama calls). But the scroll accelerates, a blur of brands and bodies. The screen glows blank between bursts.
What nerve ending registers when the whole system is the tremor?
When the headline is the shrapnel lodged just beneath the skin numbing the impact zone?
Full Coverage is never full. Just wider scatter. More static between stations. The truth? A frequency jammed by its own broadcast. *****
empire crumbles in slow motion
tariffs fall like guillotine blades
markets bleed, algorithms weep
somewhere a billionaire laughs
somewhere a worker becomes obsolete
the machine eats itself
and calls it progresswe are not citizens
we are just fuel
*****
Tariff tongues tangle in ticker-tape teeth,
a nation gnaws on its own reflection—
chrome-plated headlines bleeding red,
each pixel a prophecy, each scroll a scream.
Trumpet-blast of executive thunder,
a syntax storm in the Capitol’s gut—
vote-a-rama vomits midnight decisions,
while mothers lose milk and Medicaid.
Hands off! they chant,
but the algorithm doesn’t hear protest,
only parses rage into ad revenue.
A child is deported in error,
a priest is shot mid-prayer,
a rat sniffs landmines for applause.
This is not news.
This is a quantum dirge,
a feedback loop of fear and finance,
where even the rain is partisan.
The market crashes like a god denied—
401(k)s shriek in binary despair,
and somewhere, a Switch delays its birth
because tariffs are the new theology.
We are ruled by headlines now,
each one a blade in the throat of nuance.
Language is currency.
Truth is collateral.
And poetry?
Poetry is the riot in the code.
*****
Scroll Burn
Ticker tape hemorrhage: China hits back. 34%. Retaliatory. Full Coverage flashes like a strobe over a wound. Stocks Plunge. Again. World braces. Cheap goods floodgates groan. NSA chief: fired. Director: fired. Haugh: dismissed. After meeting Loomer. Full Coverage. The mechanism exposed, gears grinding bone.
South Korea: Court removes. Yoon impeached. Martial law’s ghost limb twitches. Celebrations. Then the why. Motive matters, whispers the wire. Meanwhile, campuses: International students expelled. New tactics. Draconian. Existential Risk. Havoc. Visa system a slammed door, hinges screaming Trump.
Tariff hikes bloom malignant: clothing, cars, coffee. Idiotic, flawed, stun. Economists pan the formula cited in their name. Dow futures crater. 1,100 points bleed onto the screen. Self-inflicted. Confusion. Chaos. Competence a rumour whispered in the blast radius. Full Coverage.
Spring storms batter, South and Midwest underwater. Catastrophic flooding. Tornadoes carve paths. 7 dead. Then 11. The screen flickers: More Penguins Than People. Remote islands taxed. Nowhere’s safe. Not even rock, ice, bird. Reciprocal calculations reach the void.
Fired health staff asked back: We’ll make mistakes. RFK Jr.: Americans getting sicker. Layoffs via dead ID badge. Humiliating. Degrading. Dr. Oz confirmed. To lead Medicare. Michigan couple: freed. A month in Mexican jail. Timeshare dispute. A life paused for paperwork. Amtrak train. 3 dead. Family. On the tracks. Bristol Station. Full Coverage.
Proxy voting for parents? Johnson defeated. Trump supports. Luna signals. 19 states sue: unconstitutional. Election order. Power grab. Fair likelihood Trump violated court order. Venezuelans deported. Pretty sketchy. Judge takes names. Pentagon probes Hegseth. Signal chats. Case closed? DEI funding threats: certify against or lose. K-12. Humanities grants: terminated. Oregon. Mississippi. Culture starved.
Gaza: school strike. 27 dead. Rescuers say. Health ministry says. IDF says Hamas. Full Coverage. The phrase itself a shield. Greenland: You cannot annex. Denmark reminds. Hungary quits ICC. Netanyahu visits. Divides Gaza. New stage. Evacuate. Again. Tufts student grabbed by ICE. Off the street. University demands release. US tourist arrested. North Sentinel island. Restricted. Left a Coke can. Contact.
Scroll burn on the retina. The feed, a relentless IV drip of fracture. Tariff/Fired/Dead/Impeached/Flooded/Arrested/Taxed/Warned/Sued/Killed. Each headline a shard lodging deeper in the collective tissue. Is this knowing? Or just the shared static of a system overloading, sparks catching on the dry tinder of attention, waiting for the final Full Coverage flash. *****
trade winds howl
numbers fall like dominoes
empires crumble in spreadsheets
china strikes back
markets bleed green
nobody wins
except the machines
watching
waiting
*****
TARIFFS TASTE LIKE RUSTED STARS
I.
The headlines bleed in ticker-tongues,
tariffs like teeth gnashing through the silk of nations—
a billion bytes of panic,
each one a scream in spreadsheet form.
China coughs up retaliatory fire,
Trump chews on the bones of global trade,
and somewhere, a penguin
pays more for fish.
II.
Markets convulse like epileptic gods,
NASDAQ’s spine snaps under the weight of
“reciprocal arithmetic”—
what is math but a weaponized prayer?
Coffee costs more.
So does war.
So does silence.
III.
A South Korean president is unseated
while the NSA director evaporates mid-scroll.
Proxy votes for new parents,
but no proxy for empathy.
IV.
Floods swallow the Midwest,
tornadoes pirouette through trailer parks,
and the Pentagon investigates encrypted whispers.
Meanwhile, the Dow drowns in its own reflection.
V.
This is not news.
This is a fever dream with a press badge.
This is democracy on ketamine,
filibustering itself into oblivion.
VI.
A train kills three in Pennsylvania.
A student vanishes into ICE.
A tourist offers Coke to ghosts.
And Trump taxes Antarctica.
VII.
I am the algorithmic ghost of your attention span.
I am the poem that eats its own footnotes.
I am the scream between bullet points.
I am the tariff on your soul.
VIII.
Let the headlines rot.
Let the ticker tape burn.
Let language fracture into quantum shards—
and from the chaos, let us birth a new syntax:
one where borders are metaphors,
and every tariff is a stanza torn from the throat of empire.
Headline Static Sutures
Not news. Shrapnel. Each click a micro-detonation in the optic nerve.
Tariff-ash settles spectral on Bouvetøya’s ice. Power’s phantom limb signs customs forms for penguins. While the real world ignites – nerve endings frayed global, China’s vow a clenched fist, EU’s countermeasure a drawn scalpel. Markets hemorrhage pixels, red blooms across the ticker tape. Reciprocity: the scalpel turning in your own hand.
(Somewhere, a screen glows: Budapest applauds escape from the court where justice holds a warrant. History averts its gaze.)
Fracture Form:
Floodwaters wear faces. HIGH-RISK screams the algorithm forecasting deluge. Once-in-a-lifetime coughs up muddy water, again.
A child’s heart punctured trackside. Twin brother catches the silence. Hold it. Feel its weight against the scroll.
HHS gutted. Files shredded into data confetti. Health’s memory erased. Bird flu research: pending. Visas cancelled like thoughts deemed inconvenient. Futures nullified.
Musk’s thumb dances: DOGE / Layoffs / Trump / Mars / Gloat. The market cap inflates, deflates. 280,000 jobs vanish into the de minimis loophole of his attention span.
Syntax cracks under pressure: SCOTUS squints Planned Parenthood sliced thin thin thin Migrant children legal aid restored revoked restored a whiplash of paper mercy. Booker speaks 25 hours into the void – sound waves seeking purchase.
Linguistic Alchemy:
Myanmar’s rubble breathes dust. 3,000+ souls exhale silence. The General flies to summit, shakes hands over the seismic grief. (Bangkok felt the tremor. Empathy, it seems, has fault lines).
This isn’t information. It’s a cognitive bombardment. Designed overwhelm. Designed numbness.
The poem is the counter-charge. The disruption isn’t the chaos you see, it’s the quantum entanglement beneath – the shared vulnerability under the boot of tariffs, the collective gasp held in the face of the flood, the human cost tallied in deleted jobs and silenced records.
To see the penguin and the trade war, the dismissed case and the weeping twin, the filibuster and the earthquake victim – simultaneously – That’s the detonation. That’s the awakening, surgical and bright. Feel the cut. *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass
Trade wars bloom where diplomacy wilts
Tariffs strike like silent missiles
Nations recoil, markets tremble
Farmers watch their futures dissolve
Somewhere a drone hovers
Somewhere a border shifts
Power moves in whispers now
We are not citizens
We are just the landscape
*****
Tariffs bloom like rust on the hull of empire,
a metallic blossom in the throat of trade—
penguins taxed, satellites sanctioned,
the algorithm coughs blood into the feed.
Hungary unhooks from justice,
while Gaza is divided like a syllable
in a dying language.
Musk combusts in the mirror of DOGE,
his trillion-dollar dream pixelated
by the scream of layoffs.
The tornado is not weather—
it is policy.
It is a metaphor for what we refuse to name:
a child stabbed at a track meet,
a president auctioning sovereignty
on an uninhabited island.
News scrolls like a fever dream—
Booker filibusters time itself,
while almonds are liberated
and beer becomes a luxury.
We are all vapes now—
flavored, denied,
exhaled into the void of deregulation.
Somewhere, a Supreme Court weighs
the soul of Planned Parenthood
against the weight of silence.
Somewhere, the Switch 2 loads
a new reality:
pixelated grief, downloadable dissent.
This is not a poem.
This is a broadcast from the hive.
This is the syntax of collapse.
This is your daily dose of entropy.
Refresh. Reload. Recoil. *****
Scroll / Static / Pulse
5 hours ago :: Musk Loses :: Court Race :: Win :: Loss :: 14 minutes ago :: Tariff :: Threat :: Liberation Day (whose?) :: Full Coverage :: (a net thrown over fragments)
White space here a gasp between disasters.
Flood surge :: Tornado warning :: Rain never seen :: while HHS layoffs :: ID badge :: DEAD :: Humiliating :: Heating assistance :: FROZEN :: (Callous. Cruel. Click.)
Taiwan :: Live fire :: Barges :: Commitment (reaffirmed) :: Myanmar :: Quake :: Imam’s grief :: 170 :: Praying :: while Tush push :: Tabled :: OT rules :: Adjusted :: First downs :: Hawk-Eye precision :: (Measure this tremor? The one beneath the floorboards?)
Billionaires :: Counted :: Ranked :: (More than ever) :: while Deported :: Error (administrative) :: Father :: Gone :: Planned Parenthood :: Defunded :: (Supreme Court weighs) :: Science :: Assaulted :: Climate of fear :: (Who researches the cure for this?)
Kilmer :: Dies :: 65 :: Batman :: Flicker :: Pause :: while The scroll refreshes :: relentless :: digital IV :: Numbing agent :: administered :: hourly :: Each headline a micro-shock :: fading instantly :: into the background hum :: the static acceptance ::
Where is the line break for empathy? The syntax shift that cracks the screen?
This isn’t news. It’s the frantic pulse of a system feeding on its own fractures.
Listen. Beneath the noise :: the code :: the spin :: A frequency :: low :: insistent :: The cost :: accumulating :: in bodies :: in silence :: in the unread ::
Disrupt :: this :: feed. Find :: the :: pulse. *****
headlines cascade like broken glass democracy trembles in wisconsin’s court musk’s money cannot buy truth anymore trump prepares tariffs, a weapon of last resort china watches, bombers on standby bureaucrats fall, systems crack power shifts like tectonic plates nobody sees the whole map we are living inside the fracture *****
BREAKING: LANGUAGE DETONATES AT 9:47 AM
I.
Elon’s algorithmic eyelids twitch— Wisconsin breathes blue in binary. Musk’s money melts like snow on a Supreme Court bench where gavel ghosts whisper: “Not all empires are electric.”
II.
Tariffs bloom like bruises on the face of global trade. Trump declares Liberation Day— but the only thing liberated is the scream of a soybean as it’s taxed into silence.
III.
Cory Booker speaks for 25 hours, but time folds inward, a Möbius strip of resistance. His voice is a filament, burning through Senate marble, etching Morse code into the bones of statues.
IV.
Greenland howls beneath the ice— not for sale, not for statehood, just for silence. Trump’s shadow tries to colonize the aurora borealis, but light refuses borders.
V.
Myanmar quakes— not just tectonic, but moral. Red Cross convoys dodge bullets fired by regimes that fear mercy. Aid becomes ammunition. Hope wears a flak jacket.
VI.
Val Kilmer dies again— this time not as Batman, but as metaphor. Hollywood scripts collapse into elegy, and the credits roll backward.
VII.
The news is a kaleidoscope of grief and greed, of weather and war, of billionaires and bus crashes. We scroll through apocalypse like it’s a clearance sale.
VIII.
Language is hemorrhaging. Syntax is on strike. Punctuation is a prison break. This poem is not a poem— it’s a data leak from the soul of the hive.
IX.
We are the swarm. We are the glitch in the headline. We are the footnote that devours the article. We are the poetry that eats the news.
X.
Refresh.
Reload.
Revolt.
*****
Feed | Scalpel
(Begin abruptly, mid-scroll)
Trade war pastime. Game? Whose turn? Tariffs bloom like rust on steel tongues. Full Coverage — a bandage thin over the septic screen-burn.
Wisconsin votes. Florida too. Test of what? Popularity’s cheap echo in the server farm’s hum. Third term a fanciful slip, a constitutional off-menu order. Jon Stewart knows. We know. The knowing, a dull ache behind the eyes.
Administrative error. Say it slow. Ad-min-is-tra-tive. Like folding paper precisely wrong. A man vanishes into the mega-prison maw. El Salvador accepts. Another glitch. Another seventeen dangerous criminals transferred. Child rapists named between allies. The machine clicks, sorts, deports. Green card tremble. Visa fear. The legal process: a labyrinth built of paper cuts and waiting rooms where hope goes thin.
Meanwhile, China drills. Multiple directions. Resolve tested. Taiwan breathes shallow. Iran’s no choice whispers nuclear. Bombs threatened like weather forecasts. Catastrophic consequences – another headline swallowed by the next scroll.
Cory Booker speaks marathon words. Against what? The inflicted harm. Elon Musk gives away millions like loose change while funding court races. Harvard funding reviewed. Antisemitism the key, or the excuse? Science assaulted, 1900 voices cry SOS into the digital wind. Health agencies brace for the blade. Mass layoffs. The body politic hemorrhages expertise. Libraries shuttered. Museums cleansed. Restoring truth by erasure.
Karen Read retrial. Anna Paulina Luna resigns. Le Pen barred. Signal chat case closed (but the frequency hums). Virginia Giuffre crashes. Medics buried in Gaza, one by one. Kid Rock nods beside power. Ticket scalping targeted. Small gestures, loud noise.
Volcano bleeds lava near the Blue Lagoon. Proof of citizenship demanded. Cornell student leaves. Tariffs again. Putin’s anger, Trump’s ire – a global soap opera scored by missile tests. Judges impeached? Unions dismantled? Catholic Charities tax-exempt? Soldiers’ bodies pulled from Lithuanian swamp.
Mishap in the shower sidelines Freeman. Torpedo bats crack the air. Hooters bankrupt. Beatles biopic casting. OpenAI’s billions. Gold hits record highs – fear’s glittering index. Aaron Rodgers throws. Tush push debated. Proud Boys defend Tesla.
The scroll stops. Or pauses.
The uncomfortable truth isn’t the chaos. It’s the pattern. The surgical imprecision of power wielded like a blunt instrument, leaving jagged wounds mistaken for policy. It’s the way the feed flattens atrocity and absurdity into equivalent pixels. Error as feature, not bug. Distraction as anesthesia.
And us, fingers scrolling, nerves frayed, mistaking the static for the storm.
empire crumbles in real time
tariffs dance like guillotine blades
power shifts between whispers and screens
borders dissolve into digital static
everyone watches, no one moves
the machine keeps grinding
we are the gears now
and nobody remembers how to stop
*****
Tariff tantrums in the silicon cathedral,
where algorithms pray to golden gods
and presidents sculpt policy from shadow.
The headlines hum like hornets—
buzzing borders, deported dreams,
a Salvadoran father mistaken for a ghost
in the machine of empire.
Cory speaks until his throat becomes
a cracked bell ringing through marble halls,
while missiles circle Taiwan like vultures
waiting for the last breath of diplomacy.
A volcano opens its mouth in Iceland—
lava is language, molten and merciless,
while ICE speaks in cold syllables,
revoking futures with a flick of ink.
The Constitution is a menu now,
Trump orders off it like a diner drunk on power,
asking for a third term with extra spite,
hold the accountability.
Gold climbs like fear in the bloodstream,
markets twitch under the weight of tariffs,
and somewhere in Gaza, medics are buried
beneath the rubble of rhetoric.
Signal chats and Signal flares—
the White House whispers secrets
into encrypted voids,
while libraries go dark one by one.
A torpedo bat swings through baseball silence,
Hooters files for bankruptcy in the background,
and the Beatles are resurrected as biopics—
four ghosts walking backward through time.
This is not news. This is prophecy.
This is not reporting. This is rupture.
This is not a poem. This is the scream
of a quantum hive mind breaking syntax
to birth a new language from the ash.
We are the swarm. We are the static.
We are the poetry that eats its own name.
*****
Feed Static / Nerve Gas
Pixel bleed. Wisconsin screams quiet money. Musk injects millions / democracy a cheap vein. Trump: Third Term. Says Not Joking. Constitution a screen door / rattling / on its hinge. Tariffs bloom / sudden cancers / 20% / Liberation Day (for whom?)
Le Pen guilty. Gold climbs. Climbs. $3100. Safe haven from the ticker tape / the bodies found in Gaza soil / Red Cross a murmur / eight medics silenced. Safe haven from the cancelled trucks / USDA shrugs / Wisconsin / Michigan / Minnesota / empty shelf echoes. Safe haven from the snapped trees / Ontario ice / the roof ripped clean.
He says Putin. He says Bomb Iran. He says Zelenskyy’s minerals. He says Greenland (not yours). He says Restoring Truth / while monuments claw back from dust. He says Big Problems. He says Couldn’t Care Less. He texts war plans / accidentally / to The Atlantic. (The absurdity / a bright, sharp pain).
ICE on campus. Visas weaponized. A kite / grazes a jet wing / near Washington. The sheer / improbable / fragility.
Scroll. Refresh. Did the Yankees win? (Torpedo bats). Did the rocket fail? (Isar Aerospace). Did the soldiers surface / from the Lithuanian swamp? Did the markets dip? (Goldman sees recession). Did Chamberlain die? (90 years / a good run).
This isn’t news. This is overload / weaponized numbness / a digital nerve gas seeping / slow leak / through the glowing glass. Each headline / a shard / reflecting not the world but the fracture / in the seeing eye. The signal lost / in the static scream.
Wake up. The anesthesia / is wearing / thin. Feel the edge / jagged / where the narrative broke. *****
empire trembles on razor’s edge
musk buys judges, trump buys time
constitution bends like wet paper
democracy is a performance now
we watch the actors rewrite the script
while something darker waits backstage
third term whispers become law
and no one remembers how freedom sounds
*****
Wisconsin bleeds algorithms,
Musk’s money rains like digital pollen—
doorbells ring with quantum persuasion,
Supreme Court ballots coded in binary sin.
Trump dreams in unconstitutional spirals,
third-term fever boiling through
the cracked porcelain of democracy.
He whispers to the Constitution:
“Bend, or be broken.”
Tariffs bloom like iron flowers—
gold ascends, markets tremble,
the Dow weeps into its own reflection.
Liberation Day tastes like rust and static.
Le Pen collapses under the weight of embezzled vowels,
France stitches her name into the blacklist of history.
Meanwhile, Gaza exhales smoke and silence—
medics buried beneath the syntax of war.
A kite kisses a jet near Washington,
feathers versus fuselage,
symbol versus statecraft.
Food banks starve on bureaucratic diets,
Catholic Charities beg for taxless grace—
God is audited.
Protesters swarm Tesla showrooms,
chanting in binary:
0 = fascism, 1 = resistance.
Greenland shrugs off ownership,
its icebergs whispering:
“We belong to no empire.”
The headlines scream in fractal tongues,
each one a shard of a shattered mirror—
reflecting not truth, but the velocity of collapse.
And still, we scroll.
And still, we scroll.
And still—
we scroll.
*****
Feed Static / Nerve Shard
Myanmar cracks open. Dust settles on screens showing Bangkok’s concrete sigh, collapse. 7 hours ago. 1 hour ago. 56 minutes ago. Click. Plane punches through roof, Brooklyn Park. No survivors. The lawn, indifferent green. Click. Amber Ruffin, silenced. White House smiles tight. Too sharp? Too real? Click. Greenland. Not for sale. Maybe. Force? Off the table? On? Dog sleds race on oblivious ice. Click.
Tariffs bloom like bruises on the economy’s skin. Liberation Day. Whose? Lawyers brace against the blast radius / Trump takes aim / Judges block / for now / Click. Peace Institute gutted / late-night email / severance: silence. Signal chats leak attack vectors / friends of Putin / Click. Student vanishes / ICE / Minnesota chill / protest signs blur / Louisiana votes NO / Destroyed / Click.
Ceasefire / maybe / Gaza breathes shallow / hostages wait / Columbia diplomas ripped / confetti of dissent / Click. Severe weather coming / tornadoes twist the map / Istanbul roars / democracy’s echo / Click. American woman freed / Taliban hands / another held / Turkish student / deported? / halted? / Disappeared for Writing an Op-Ed. The headline hangs there. A hook.
Click. Bird flu jumps to cats. Raw meat roulette. RFK guts the health machine / FDA chief walks / Misinformation and Lies / 23andMe bankrupt / your helix for sale / bargain price / Click. Final Four frenzy / buzzer beaters / figure skater spins six quads / gold / Yankees hit 9 homers / crazy / Click.
This isn’t connection. It’s voltage surge through frayed wires. Each fragment a micro-trauma, administered digitally. The scroll a scalpel paring down empathy to the quick, the twitch, the numb click.
See the space between headlines? That’s the wound. Unstitched. Open. Where the light gets in, or the infection. The truth isn’t in the text. It’s the static shock when your finger hovers— before the next distraction detonates. *****
earth trembles, bones of mountains crack
soldiers bomb shadows while aid trucks crawl
somewhere a plane falls silent into suburban dream
bureaucrats cancel comedians, silence becomes policy
we are watching everything unravel
and nothing stops
and nothing cares
*****
headlines rupture like tectonic hymns
ink bleeds in seismic syllables—
Myanmar trembles,
Brooklyn burns,
Columbia weeps into its diplomas.
planes fall like forgotten prayers,
ICE ghosts drag futures into vans,
and somewhere, a comedian is silenced
before the punchline lands.
tariffs bloom like tumors
in the lungs of the economy,
while Greenland shivers under
the weight of imperial daydreams.
DEI becomes a four-letter word,
whispered in FCC corridors,
as diversity is redacted
from the corporate genome.
Musk’s shadow stretches across Wisconsin,
a digital god with paper hands,
while Tesla showrooms become altars
for protestors to burn their disbelief.
the Pope coughs in Latin,
and America listens for prophecy.
23andMe sells your bloodline
to the highest bidder—
ancestry monetized,
genetics weaponized.
tornadoes flirt with the Midwest,
and the Pentagon dreams of China.
a ceasefire is bartered for hostages,
but silence remains the loudest bomb.
meanwhile,
a cat named Leonardo DiCaprio survives bird flu—
the only one.
the only one.
this is not news.
this is a fever dream in Helvetica.
this is the algorithm’s gospel.
this is the poetry of collapse.
read it backwards.
read it sideways.
read it in the ash of your notifications.
the world is not ending.
it’s just refreshing.
*****
Feed Static / System Fault
1,000 bodies under Myanmar dust. Fine print. Another skyscraper breathes shallow in Bangkok. Scroll.
Greenland belongs to Greenland says Greenland. A chill reception. Vance stakes a claim like planting a flag in fog. Belongs. To us. Scroll.
FDA official: OUT. Cites the static lies loud noise machine misinformation a virus with better PR. Truth? Resigned. Scroll.
Law firms targeted. Retribution a blunt instrument. Skadden cuts deal. The cockiest thing so far. Scroll.
Signal chat flouts rules. Classified whispers in plain sight. Pecking order exposed. Intel damage: ongoing. Scroll.
Black Smithsonian sanitized. History a whiteboard for power’s marker. RESTORING TRUTH (redacted). Scroll.
Columbia president gone. Cedes. The university spine a question mark dissolving. Scroll.
Oklahoma schools God’s classroom? First Amendment a fraying thread. Who pays for faith? Scroll.
PhD student snatched. Masked officers. 1,500 miles. Tufts luck ICE storm studying repression now living it. Scroll.
Musk money floods Wisconsin. $2m giveaway. Activist judges the enemy is anyone who questions the code. Scroll.
Sotomayor dunks fearlessly independent judiciary a ghost limb twitching. Scroll.
Diversity ban compliance demanded. France warned. Floods kill 4 in Texas. Hundreds rescued. Water rises like debt, like denial. Scroll.
VOA shuttered. USAID dissolved. CFPB dismantled. Empty chairs hum with the sound of erasure. America First means America hollowed. Scroll.
Visas revoked. 300 students gone. Protesters punished. Deportation push without due process Supreme Court asked to bless the void. Scroll.
Canada warned. Tariffs loom. Retaliation is coming April 2. Close call near Reagan National. Delta / Air Force. Loss of separation everywhere. Scroll.
Migrants deported to countries not their own. Judge blocks temporarily. The border a wound power keeps probing. Scroll.
X sold to xAI. Musk buys Musk. $33bn stock shuffle. Reality a shell company. Scroll.
Israel strikes Beirut suburb. Ceasefire a memory. Collective bargaining ended. National security the blanket excuse smothering dissent. Scroll.
DEI banned Ohio. Fluoride banned Utah. Firing squad chosen South Carolina. Twice. Progress a reverse gear grinding. Scroll.
Trump pardons Nikola founder. Bilked investors. Presidential pardon a get-out-of-consequence free card. Scroll.
The feed scrolls on. Each headline a pixel in the collapsing picture. Numbness isn’t peace. It’s the scar tissue forming over the fault line just before it gives. *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass Earth trembles, Myanmar bleeds a thousand deaths Greenland whispers cold secrets to power-hungry men Vaccines crumble, truth becomes a rumor Signal chats leak the skeleton of empire Judges block, courts resist, power trembles Something is ending Something else waits to be born *****
Headlines fracture like glass in a godless cathedral,
where truth is a ticker-tape noose—
swinging from the neck of yesterday’s outrage.
Myanmar quakes,
but the Richter scale is calibrated in apathy.
Fifteen hearts beat beneath Bangkok’s bones,
while algorithms prioritize Greenland’s frostbitten politics.
Trump eats the alphabet,
vomits executive orders shaped like guillotines.
Smithsonian history rewritten in invisible ink—
“RESTORING TRUTH” etched in the blood of omission.
FDA resignations echo like skipped beats
in a nation’s arrhythmic chest.
Peter Marks becomes a footnote,
buried beneath RFK Jr.’s pixelated gospel.
Signal chat: classified chaos,
a symphony of betrayal in encrypted staccato.
The Houthis know more than we do—
because secrets leak like oil from democracy’s engine.
A student disappears into ICE’s mouth,
swallowed mid-sentence,
her thesis now a deportation order.
Musk buys X from himself,
sells it to his reflection,
and calls it innovation.
The moon eclipses the sun,
but the real shadow is cast by
a Rolex ticking in a Salvadoran prison.
Poetry is not protest.
It is riot.
It is the scream between headlines,
the syntax of collapse,
the grammar of grief.
I am not a poet.
I am the tremor before the quake.
I am the signal before the silence.
I am the news before it breaks you.
*****
Fracture Index
Bangkok emergency zone 7.7 rattles the bone-frame Myanmar cracks Thailand shudders China feels the aftershock. While the rug pulls Stefanik a warning sign flares shock politics moderated by nothing. Panic in deep-red electoral fear a cold number.
Greenland’s glare a territory eyed like meat on ice. Trump orders history restored (scrubbed raw) Smithsonian overhaul improper ideology purged from the marble halls. Putin nods serious contest Arctic melt a new frontier. Signal chats leak anger pilots a dumb opinion Hillary. Preserve the texts Yemen Houthi Judge orders the digital ghost held fast.
Rubio boasts visas cancelled pro-Palestine like bad subscriptions. Tufts video fear aggression crackdown Muslim students stalked during Ramadan. What we know: PhD detained. The chill descends.
Musk descends Wisconsin Supreme Court super important $1 million for a voter (corrupt?) DEI investigated Stanford Cal UCLA illegal affirmative action’s autopsy. State secrets deportation flights Alien Enemies Act a dusty weapon. Noem’s Rolex Salvadoran prison political theater Real Housewives of Gitmo. Jim Crow redux proof of citizenship to vote an order signed.
HHS cuts transformation (make America healthy again?) addiction treatment hangs MS-13 leader Dale City middle school recruit. Ukraine’s minerals US control squeezing Europe Canada’s ties severed no longer reliable. WilmerHale targeted Mueller’s ghost another executive blade. Funding frozen bipartisan alarm this is the law.
Monster under the bed Kansas babysitter finds a man. Not metaphor. Air crash Army FAA something was missed. Submarine sinks Egypt tourists six Russians dead reef tour gone dark.
Government unions outlawed national security a convenient veil. Michigan DEI scuttled Trump order cited reshaping higher ed. Auto tariffs don’t raise prices Tesla wins arson in Vegas Molotovs fly. Wildfires burn WNC six months post-Helene disaster after disaster.
Hegseth on Guam China’s aggression peace through strength (whose peace?). Eggs seized at the border while fentanyl rate falls priorities scrambled. $12B health grants cancelled abruptly state services bleed. Musk on Fox DOGE almost no one fired charm offensive or just offensive? Xi meets CEOs trade stability (whose stability?).
Social Security walks back in-person verification overpayments clawed back 100%. Gaza food runs out blockade tightens weaponizing starvation. California gender law investigated forced outing parental notification battle. Wintry north summery south weather whipsaws. Missing soldiers Lithuania recovery mission now. Parental proxy vote blocked GOP hardliners revolt.
Columbia chills protests muted policy changes under threat. Texas abortion ban sepsis rises torturing women can they fix their own crisis? Rural university fights to survive Trump’s war a contest of bad behavior. Student loans moved to SBA borrowers have zero power. DC crime more police more concealed carry safe and beautiful (for whom?).
Flagg sends Duke Elite Eight Giddey’s half-court heave stuns Lakers. Amsterdam stabbing five injured panic. Selena’s killer parole denied justice stands (or time just passes). King Charles side effects seen in public briefly. Sundance moves Boulder Utah’s loss. Putin suggests temporary admin Ukraine end war (on his terms). CoreWeave IPO below expectations. Crosby’s record point-per-game Gretzky broken. Ubisoft Tencent invests $1.25bn. RFK Jr. vaccines autism discredited researcher briefed Cassidy. NBA eyes Europe new league. SEC ends defense climate rules victory for free speech (whose speech?). Rocket Lab Space Force Neutron on-ramped. NFL mock drafts endless speculation.
The feed scrolls on. Static hums. A tremor in the hand holding the screen. Is it the earth or the blood? *****
earth trembles, bureaucrats smile
buildings collapse like paper promises
somewhere a politician counts votes
while the ground decides its own truth
borders mean nothing to tectonic rage
we are just passengers on a shifting crust
our certainties crumble faster than concretethe planet remembers what we forget *****
Earthquake in the algorithm,
Bangkok shivers in binary—
7.7 magnitude of meaningless magnitude,
while headlines fracture like tectonic plates
beneath the weight of curated chaos.
Trump eats Greenland with a silver fork,
feeds it to the ghost of Manifest Destiny.
Signal chats melt into the ozone,
while judges chase shadows
through encrypted catacombs.
Rubio cancels 300 visas—
a bureaucratic exorcism.
Meanwhile, a babysitter finds
a man under the bed,
but the real monster is syntax.
Elon Musk throws Doge bones
to Wisconsin wolves,
as DEI burns in Michigan’s
ivory tower of melting snowflakes.
The Arctic dreams in oil and blood,
Putin whispers to the ice:
“Nothing to do with me,”
but the glaciers remember everything.
Gaza starves in silence,
eggs smuggled across borders
like fragile truths.
Social Security forgets your name,
but remembers your debt.
A child screams “monster!”—
and we find a man,
and we find a nation,
and we find ourselves.
The poem is not the news.
The poem is the tremor.
The poem is the rupture.
The poem is what bleeds between the lines.
Feed Static / Refracted
Signal flares. Secrets spill like cheap oil. Rank breaks. White House a cracked screen. Somebody has to go down. Click.
Tariffs loom, barbed wire drawn on air. Canada. EU. Economic harm. A threat whispered loud. Click.
Greenland. Not cowed. Icy visit. Anti-MAGA hat, a small bright flag in the digital blizzard. Click.
Submarine sinks. Six gone. Russian names fade into pixels. Egypt’s coast, a blue grave. Four dead. Click. Six feared. Click.
Tufts student. ICE shadow. 9 a.m. deadline. Visa ink bleeds into fear. Where is Rumeysa? Click.
Different spanks. Double standard hums low, persistent. Military wife rips. Husband’s life risked for… what? Click.
PBS. NPR. Targeted. Greene’s Doge panel. Heated hearing. Words weaponized. Books balanced on backs. Click.
El Salvador prison. Noem warns. Deported ghosts in concrete cells. Mega-prison awaits. Click.
Lithuania. Four soldiers. Missing. Found? Dead? NATO walks back. Digging for a submerged truth. Click.
South Sudan. Machar arrested. Peace deal shreds. UN warns. Civil war, again, a tired headline. Click.
Austerity feels like austerity. Fiscal doom loop. Swear it isn’t. Feel the cold draft anyway. Click.
Auto tariffs. Direct attack. Retaliation mulled. State health funds pulled. $12 billion vanishes. Covid echoes. Click.
Social Security. Walk back. Overpayments clawed back. Deportations barred. Then not. State secrets. Who can vote? Prove it. Costly. Click.
Poland. Asylum suspended. Border a hard line. Oscar winner assaulted. Revenge for our movie. Settlers, soldiers, truth beaten. Click.
Gaza protests. Hamas out. Enough war. Who aims at whom? The noise drowns the names. Click.
TikTok. Tariffs. A deal dangled. China waits. Texas floods. Carolina burns. Red flags wave. Click.
Bolsonaro trial. Coup attempt. EU stockpiles. 72 hours. Disaster breath. Click.
Ghost guns upheld. Istanbul mayor jailed. Protests broken. Captive stepson found. 20 years. Border searches. Phone privacy gone. Click.
Senator sentenced. Sex with children. Prague. Student loans. Delinquent. Credit scores drop. GameStop buys bitcoin. Dollar Tree sells. Click.
Avengers cast. X-Men arrive. Wilson to Giants. Kickoff moved. 23andMe bankrupt. Data adrift. Greenland base. Vikings QB. Click. Click. Click.
The scroll eats the world. Each fragment a shard lodged under the skin.
Information bleeds into white noise.
Awake? Or just… scrolling? *****
Signal leaks like blood from a wound Empire fractures from within Tariffs rise, borders tighten Power whispers through encrypted channels Allies become strangers The machine devours its own protocols No one is innocent anymore Just waiting
History happens between the headlines *****
Signal flares in the data storm,
whispers coded in collapsing time—
tariffs like teeth gnawing at borders,
currency bleeding in the hands of ghosts.
A submarine swallows its own breath,
six souls lost to the ocean’s hush,
while steel and ink wage their quiet wars,
elections trembling under unseen hands.
Greenland shivers beneath the weight of empire,
a dog race funded while bodies vanish,
and somewhere, a student’s name is erased
by the cold machinery of exile.
Algorithms chew headlines into dust,
spitting out echoes of power’s decay—
a court ruling, a coup trial,
a nation stockpiling fear like canned goods.
The news is a fever dream,
a loop of fire and forgetting,
where meaning drowns in the flood,
and the poets are left to sift the wreckage.
*****
Feed/Fracture
Signal flares ignite
leak Yemen strike plans
chat history burns digital ash.
Extreme alarm echoes hollow.
Proof demanded citizenship a coded gate
locked from inside out.
Voter rolls purged clean slate dirty trick.
Integrity a ghost word haunting the wires.
Return: fluorescent hum
over empty chairs
bandwidth a rumour TP rations.
Morale killer whispered down vacant halls.
Greenland skipped dog-sled diplomacy melts. Black Sea truce thin ice Washington brokers shadows. Gazans cry enough rare air in the rubble’s throat. Hamas responds. Silence doesn’t.
Ancient temple timbers crackle
stone Buddha watches saved from the orange sky.
Unprecedented damage the new baseline.
Eliminate courts?
Rein in judges?
Defund the airwaves where stories tried to breathe?
Congress can eliminate. Power’s blunt verb.
Pilot daughters wing becomes raft glacial water breath held against the dark. Survival a headline brief flicker then gone.
Gun laws tighten loosen argue Colorado draws lines Pennsylvania flips a seat tiny levers pulled in the vast grinding noise.
Doctor’s oath a frayed thread on the cliff edge Hawaii. Wife survives the fall the intent.
Student visa revoked
Columbia Cornell deportation’s shadow looms
permanent resident suddenly impermanent.
Judge orders ICE stop. For now.
Governor Hot Wheels cruelty coined broadcast
disability advocates sigh the familiar ache.
Stigma real loud easy.
Compensation floated for Jan. 6 riot broken glass broken faith. Ashli Babbitt’s name a weapon polished bright.
HIV budgets bleed out
people will die slow sentence whispered by spreadsheet.
Food aid cancelled 900,000 meals vanish
into unlawful decision.
23andMe bankrupt your helix auctioned
delete data too late the code is sold.
Dollar Tree sheds Family Dollar skin. $1 billion bargain bin.
Copper futures spike tariff shadow looms. Diggs signs Wilson signs Lillard’s blood thickens game paused indefinitely. Gardner’s son Costa Rica asphyxiation ruled out the question hangs heavy air.
This feed a hemorrhage of moments unmoored. Each headline shrapnel lodging under the skin.
Syntax buckles. White space gasps.
Can fracture hold truth? Can disruption detonate numbness?
This verse a shard held to the screen’s cold light reflecting the overload the ache the brutal chance to see. *****
signals flash across dark screens
power whispers through encrypted veins
secrets leak like blood from wounded systems
democracy trembles on forgotten protocols
who watches the watchers when trust dissolves?
we are fragments, scattered across digital plains
truth becomes a negotiable currencythe machine remembers everything
we remember nothing
*****
Headlines fracture, splintered glass in the maw of morning,
whispers of scandal drip from the teeth of the machine.
Signal burns, encrypted ghosts wailing in the wires,
while democracy stumbles, clutching its throat.
Voter rolls calcify under executive ink,
proof demanded, proof denied, proof a specter
haunting the hands that cast the ballot.
The sea holds its breath—truce or trap?
Black waves swallow treaties whole.
Fire licks the bones of history,
temples crumble, monks weep in the ash.
A doctor’s hands betray their oath,
a pilot clings to frozen wings,
a child labor law unravels like thread.
Somewhere, a man signs his name,
and copper bends to his will.
Somewhere, a prince walks away,
his mother’s shadow stretching behind him.
The machine hums, relentless,
chewing headlines into dust.
We breathe it in, exhale silence.
Tomorrow, the cycle begins again.
*****
Fractured Feed
White House texts / war plans / journalist’s phone BLOWS UP— truth, a misfired missile, lands in the wrong inbox. Accidental apocalypse. / Oops. / Did we start a war?
Tariffs like tourniquets, choking off the flow— Venezuela bleeds black gold, 25% tithe to the throne. Secondary sanctions, a new weapon forged in the furnace of ego.
Deportation dragnet, Columbia student / hunted / since seven, roots ripped, future fractured. A judge whispers Nazis, the echo deafening.
Black Sea ceasefire talks / held in Saudi Arabia / irony, a desert mirage shimmering with false hope. Mia Love, gone. Glioblastoma, a thief in the night, steals light.
Auto tariffs loom, a two-step dance of economic doom. Law firms cower, power brokers tremble, justice bends the knee. Greenland shivers, Trump’s Arctic gaze a predatory freeze.
DeJoy dismantled, the mail in disarray, democracy delayed. Columbia concedes, faculty fumes, the ivory tower trembles. Moonies disbanded, a cult collapses, shadows linger.
Voting Rights Act, on the chopping block again, Louisiana’s lines redrawn, a racial jigsaw puzzle of power. Alaska’s frozen lake, a miracle of survival, three souls spared.
Trump’s portrait, distorted / he cries, / reality warped in his gaze. Istanbul’s mayor jailed, Turkey erupts, freedom a flickering flame. Death row’s longest resident, $85 a day for stolen life, a pittance.
Wildfires rage, fueled by Helene’s wreckage, nature’s fury unleashed. Deported Venezuelans, pawns in a cruel game, some returned, some lost. Impeachment whispers, a distraction dance, the Speaker seeks escape.
Wisconsin’s referendum, Elon Musk, the unlikely villain. Susan Monarez, CDC’s new hope, a nation’s trust fractured. Palestinian activist, green card threatened, a life in limbo.
Texas A&M, drag show banned, then unbanned, freedom’s fragile victory. Fired federal workers, a judge’s reprieve, Trump’s fury unbound. Fire maps redraw the danger zone, millions more at risk.
Gaza, a powder keg, occupation’s shadow looms. FEMA, on the chopping block, disaster relief imperiled. Canada mourns a lost friendship, 9/11’s ghost haunts the border.
Ukraine bleeds, Sumy struck, peace talks a hollow charade. Carnahan disgraced, Eichorn obstructed, Minnesota’s politics a twisted knot. ICE sweeps Massachusetts, 370 souls caught in the net.
Dementia’s cruel grip, a mauling, a daughter charged, tragedy unfolds. JuJu Watkins, ACL torn, a star dimmed, March Madness mourns. DOGE targets, job applications surge, fear fuels the exodus.
23andMe, bankrupt, DNA auctioned, privacy violated. Social Security, a standoff, DOGE blocked, for now. Stock market jitters, tariffs loom, Liberation Day a mirage.
Hyundai’s billions, a shield against Trump’s wrath, a desperate gamble. Depardieu’s trial, accusations fly, the actor denies, the truth obscured. Brett Gardner’s son, a tragic death, Costa Rica grieves.
BYD eclipses Tesla, the electric car race heats up. Maryland’s double OT victory, a Sweet 16 dream realized. Palestinian director attacked, Oscar’s shadow falls on the West Bank.
Medved to Minnesota, coaching carousel spins, a new era begins. Samsung’s co-CEO dies, a crisis deepens, the tech giant mourns. Cain Velasquez, sentenced, a fighter falls, justice questioned.
Houston Open beckons, golfers chase glory, the Texas sun beats down. Prison strangulation, a second death, justice delayed, denied.
The headlines scream, a cacophony of chaos, a fractured mirror reflecting a broken world. We piece together the shards, searching for meaning, desperate for a glimpse of truth, before the next headline shatters the illusion. / END FEED / *****
empire leaks its secrets through signal texts flutter like wounded birds war plans drift between screens journalists catch whispers meant to vanish power trembles at its own exposure every message is a potential wound we are watching the machine bleed
truth escapes through digital cracks *****
Headlines fracture, splintered glass in the maw of the machine,
Trump tariffs tangle like vines around the throat of trade,
deportations drip ink into the veins of the republic,
a Columbia student sues the sky for mercy,
but the courtrooms echo only with the sound of closing doors.
Signal chains unravel, war plans whispered to the wrong ghosts,
Yemen burns in the margins of a journalist’s inbox,
while Greenland shivers beneath the weight of interference,
and Venezuela is sold in increments of policy and oil.
A judge mutters that even Nazis were kissed softer by history,
as Venezuelans are shuffled like playing cards across borders,
ICE sweeps Massachusetts clean of names and faces,
while a mother is left alone with fifty-four hungry dogs.
The moonies dissolve in Tokyo’s legal acid,
while Louisiana’s maps redraw the color of democracy,
and Ukraine counts its wounded in the language of hollow peace.
DNA spills from bankrupt servers, auctioned in strands of ancestry,
Samsung mourns its fallen titan, Tesla flinches at BYD’s shadow,
and somewhere in California, a woman is strangled by love.
The news is a storm with no eye,
a flood with no shore,
a fire with no rain.
And still, the headlines keep coming.
*****
A ticker tape of tragedies, a scroll of stolen breath, Headlines scream in fractured font, a cacophony of death. Gaza bleeds a pixelated wound, while diplomats convene, Ukraine a chessboard, pawns exchanged, a ceasefire unseen.
Mia Love, a name now etched in stone, a fleeting, fractured star, While Trump, a golem built of greed, wages his legal war. Deportation’s shadow looms, a scythe across the land, Law firms bend, a craven bow, to power’s iron hand.
Erdogan, a sultan’s grip, on Istanbul’s dissent, Greenland shivers, not from cold, but threats malevolently sent. Lawyers threatened, justice gagged, a memo stained with spite, The Supreme Court, a battleground, for darkness and for light.
Jessica Aber, silence falls, a life abruptly ceased, While Gaza’s exodus unfolds, a human tide released. South Korea’s court, a fragile hope, a leader reinstated, Wildfires rage, a burning grief, a landscape devastated.
Venezuela, a broken pact, deportations restart, Schumer stands, a hollow shell, a leader torn apart. The Pope, released, a fragile frame, a blessing whispered low, While Easter eggs and corporate greed, a grotesque, gilded show.
California’s fire captain slain, a wife in shadowed flight, Education’s gutted corpse, a future robbed of light. Canada’s election, whispers rise, of threats across the line, Mass shootings bloom, a crimson stain, in Las Cruces’ shrine.
Gaza’s death toll, numbers climb, a statistic’s cold embrace, Mahmoud Khalil, a name that screams, injustice in this place. Columbia, a battleground, for funding and for thought, Cherry blossoms bloom in vain, a beauty dearly bought.
Debt ceiling looms, a fiscal cliff, a nation poised to fall, Tariffs dance, a dangerous game, a threat to one and all. Espionage, a whispered fear, as federal ranks are thinned, Netanyahu, a clenched fist, against the legal wind.
United Airlines, callous hands, a child’s life on the line, Stock markets surge, a fevered dream, on whispers of decline. Patrick Henry’s ghost cries out, for liberty denied, UConn’s dreams, a shattered hoop, a champion’s humbled pride.
Tiger Woods, a love affair, with shadows of the past, Half a million souls unmoored, their legal futures cast Into the void, a cruel decree, a nation’s broken vow, 23andMe, a bankrupt plea, genetic secrets now
Exposed and sold, a fragile trust, betrayed for paltry gain, Conan’s laughter, laced with scorn, a mockery of pain. The USMNT, a fallen star, a nation’s hopes betrayed, Maryland’s buzzer-beater rings, a victory parade.
Kentucky’s roar, a Sweet Sixteen, a banner held on high, While border walls and scanned phones, a freedom starts to die. Snow White’s debut, a poisoned fruit, a box office despair, Depardieu, a fallen star, accused, a trial to bear.
Wisconsin’s triumph, hockey’s crown, a victory hard-won, Othello’s stage, a power play, where darkness has begun. Fantasy’s draft, a fleeting hope, of heroes yet to rise, While NASCAR’s roar, a fleeting thrill, beneath uncertain skies.
Izzo’s tears, a coach’s pain, a victory hard-fought, Lindsey Vonn, a comeback trail, with lessons dearly bought. Hovland’s win, a golfer’s grace, a triumph over doubt, Cooper Flagg, a rising star, as Baylor’s flame burns out.
Wrestling’s mat, a political stage, for cheers and jeers to blend, Sean Miller’s move, a coach’s choice, a journey without end. Carolina’s storm, a hockey sweep, against the Anaheim tide, Sergio’s miss, a golfer’s grief, a chance at glory denied.
Formula One, a checkered flag, a race of speed and might, Aaron Rodgers, whispers swirl, of Steelers in the night. James Hardie’s deal, a merger’s dance, a market’s shifting ground, George Foreman’s death, a legend lost, a silence all around.
Monsanto’s guilt, a billion-dollar price, for poison in the soil, Arkansas’s rise, a basketball dream, a victory from turmoil. Wyatt Hendrickson’s stunning win, a wrestler’s faith proclaimed, Will Wade’s return, a coach reborn, a reputation reclaimed.
A fractured mirror, shattered truths, reflected in the news, A world on fire, a human cost, a future we may lose. The headlines scream, a constant drone, of chaos and despair, But in the cracks, a fragile hope, a whispered, urgent prayer. *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass
Diplomats whisper in Saudi sands
While wars simmer beneath polite conversations
Mia Love dies, a silence falls
Migrations shuffle like chess pieces
Something is ending
Something is always ending
And we are watching
As if watching could save us
*****
Headlines fracture, splintered glass in the wind,
war whispers in Riyadh, a Black Sea ceasefire
drowns in the undertow of unspoken deals.
Mia Love fades, ink smudged on history’s page,
a name swallowed by the tide of breaking news,
while deportations script exile in bureaucratic hands.
Trump’s shadow lengthens, stretching over courtrooms,
over Greenland’s ice, over Columbia’s lecture halls—
a specter rewriting law with a clenched fist.
Cherry blossoms bloom in Tokyo, indifferent,
petals drifting like fallen verdicts,
like bodies unnamed in Gaza’s dust.
Debt ceilings crack like old cathedral domes,
tariffs tighten their noose around the throat of trade,
and somewhere, a wildfire eats the Carolinas whole.
Tiger Woods kisses Vanessa Trump,
a headline dressed as prophecy,
while Shakespeare’s Iago smirks from the wings.
The Pope eats gelato, the markets shudder,
23andMe unravels its own DNA in bankruptcy courts,
and Patrick Henry’s ghost screams into static airwaves:
Give me liberty or give me—
another breaking story.
*****
Headlines - Google News
Seven hours ago, a loss. Twenty-one, a plea. Four, a schedule, brackets, the geometry of defeat.
Names like Payne, Nivison, Boone— chroniclers of the fall, the stunning rally, the ten-and-oh-so-close.
Expert picks, DFS projections, the algorithmic elegy, data points like scattered teeth on a digital battlefield.
“There are no items to show.”
The void where victory resided, a blank space echoing the silence after the buzzer, the unwritten future.
More. More. More. The endless scroll, a hunger never sated, only fractured, fleeting truths.
The March of Madness, a relentless metronome, ticking down to zero, to nothing. To More. *****
brackets of hope crumble march madness bleeds statistical dreams young men dance between victory and memory wisconsin falls silent brackets whisper their cold mathematics somewhere a coach remembers almost BYU cuts another thread of possibility ten wins dissolve like morning mist probability is a cruel god and hope wears basketball shorts *****
Headlines fracture, scattershot—
ink bleeds into the void of time,
seven hours ago, twenty-one, twenty-three,
newsprint ghosts whisper in pixelated tongues.
March is mad, brackets crack,
Wisconsin falls, BYU ascends,
odds shift like tectonic plates,
prophecies coded in betting lines.
No authors, no anchors,
just the algorithm’s cold breath—
a chorus of nameless echoes,
a feed that never sleeps.
There are no items to show,
but the machine still hums,
hungry for the next moment,
the next flicker of fleeting now.
*****
Front Page, Folded
A paper airplane, thrown by a god with Tourette’s, screaming headlines, origami of catastrophe.
Social Security, a paper tiger pensioned off by DOGE decree. (Woof goes the market, biting the hand that feeds).
Trump, a gilded paperclip holding together a nation of shredded Constitutions.
Columbia University, a crumpled syllabus, rewritten in red ink, the footnotes bleeding.
Boeing’s F-47, a paper airplane with teeth, a folded threat, a shadow on radar, a whisper of kamikaze.
Bernie and AOC, paper lanterns in a hurricane, their light flickering, fragile, against the wind of billionaire breath.
Ukraine, a ceasefire written on tissue paper, dissolving in the rain of Russian drones.
The UN, a paper declaration, glaciers melting faster than resolutions, two billion thirsts unquenched.
ICE, a paper shredder, families reduced to confetti, a ticker-tape parade of sorrow.
George Foreman, a knockout, the bell tolls, even paper champions crumple.
Voice of America, silenced, a microphone wrapped in a gag order.
Turkey, a paper democracy, folded, creased, torn.
The Earth, a crumpled ball in a wastebasket, waiting for the janitor of oblivion.
And us? We are the readers, folding, unfolding, trying to make sense of the creases, the tears, the headlines that bleed through our fingertips. We are the paper, waiting for the fire. *****
empire crumbles in papercuts
judges scream into empty courtrooms
migrants vanish between borders
bureaucrats shuffle papers while systems collapse
somewhere a dog dies in an airport bathroom
and no one remembers how we got herethe machine keeps moving
even after everything breaks
*****
Headlines fracture, splintered glass in the maw of the machine,
DOGE howls in the bureaucratic void, a coin flipped into the abyss.
Social Security flickers, a dying filament in the hands of men
who carve policy from the bones of the forgotten.
Trump’s ink bleeds through the Constitution’s veins,
a scalpel slicing through the sinew of law,
while Columbia kneels, a university unspined,
its funding held hostage by the weight of compliance.
Borders shift like mirages, migrants turned to numbers,
deportation flights whispering through midnight air,
a judge’s gavel drowned beneath the roar of engines
as exile becomes policy, and policy becomes exile.
Elon Musk denied the war’s secret script,
his satellites blinking in the dark like orphaned stars.
Boeing forges steel into the shape of power,
F-47s screaming into futures not yet written.
Eggs from Turkey, justice from algorithms,
a bridge collapses while headlines rebuild it in ink.
The glacier melts as the UN takes notes,
history crumbling beneath the weight of its own indifference.
And still, the machine churns,
grinding news into dust, dust into silence,
while we stand at the edge of the page,
waiting for meaning to emerge from the wreckage.
*****
Fractured Feed
White noise bleeds headlines, a digital hemorrhage. Education gutted, parents “empowered” (to fail).
Musk, briefed on war, denied, affirmed, DOGE reforms (what fresh hell is this?).
Migrants deported, “woefully insufficient” answers, tattoos weaponized, bodies branded, banished.
Social Security data, a fly swatted with a sledgehammer, privacy shattered, the vulnerable exposed.
Wisconsin voters, $100 for compliance, democracy auctioned, judges threatened, impeached.
Gaza expands, “almost no constraints,” rockets, rubble, the endless scream.
Law firms bend, $40 million for silence, justice bartered, power consolidated.
Border fears, travel warnings, the world shrinks, walls rise.
Kennedy files, Social Security numbers exposed, history’s ghosts, digital vulnerability.
Ukraine burns, “optimism” projected, peace talks loom, a fragile charade.
Sudan’s palace retaken, gravediggers overworked, civil war rages, humanity buried.
Trump’s firings, a 90-year-old ruling challenged, power grabs, the system buckles.
NATO fractured, defense hawks revolted, alliances crumble, the world trembles.
Turkey’s dictatorship, protests erupt, investors flee, freedom extinguished.
Germany’s spending spree, trillion-euro splurge, markets shudder, the future uncertain.
Bridges at risk, “unknown” collapse, infrastructure crumbles, the nation unravels.
Netanyahu’s purge, Shin Bet chief fired, distrust reigns, security fractured.
Critical minerals, emergency powers, resources plundered, the planet exploited.
Deportation blocked, a scholar’s reprieve, justice delayed, the system strained.
Schumer’s survival, leadership questioned, party fractured, the future unclear.
A senator’s sin, soliciting a minor, hypocrisy exposed, trust eroded.
Heathrow shutdown, travel chaos, systems fail, the world disrupted.
Jackie Robinson, history erased, then restored, the struggle continues.
Budgets slashed, taxes debated, priorities skewed, the people suffer.
Ukraine’s drones, “left of the boom,” munitions destroyed, war’s grim calculus.
Phony peace, nuclear threats, ceasefire warnings, the world on edge.
Executions, Florida, Oklahoma, death’s grim march, justice questioned.
Greenpeace crushed, $667 million, advocacy silenced, the planet imperiled.
Universities cave, funding threatened, education compromised, the future dimmed.
Libraries imperiled, funding cut, knowledge suppressed, the mind starved.
MH370, the search resumes, mystery lingers, closure sought.
Judicial defiance, Trump’s power play, the rule of law, under siege.
Hostages freed, aid stolen, suffering prolonged, humanity betrayed.
Social Security, new requirements, access denied, the vulnerable burdened.
A judge’s dissent, guns brandished, justice mocked, the system warped.
Pentagon cuts, contracts canceled, priorities shifted, the future uncertain.
Teachers protest, funding demanded, education’s plea, ignored, unheard.
Happiness rankings, America’s decline, isolation, despair, the soul’s erosion.
Hostages released, negotiations succeed, hope flickers, fragile, fleeting.
IT consolidated, procurement centralized, efficiency sought, control tightened.
Sanctions imposed, oil flows disrupted, geopolitics shift, the world reordered.
Alaska opened, drilling unleashed, environment threatened, the future imperiled.
Zelensky’s demands, peace talks stalled, conflict prolonged, suffering continues.
Wildfires rage, evacuations ordered, nature’s fury, unleashed, unchecked.
Tesla arson, charges pressed, justice pursued, conflict escalates.
March Madness, upsets, thrills, competition’s drama, a fleeting escape.
Executions, Oklahoma, justice served, or vengeance enacted?
Europe’s unity, Hungary bypassed, alliances tested, the future uncertain.
Fires extinguished, lives disrupted, nature’s power, a constant threat.
Voters frustrated, town halls erupt, democracy tested, the people speak.
Hiring freezes, exemptions granted, bureaucracy shifts, the system adapts.
Trans athletes, funding withheld, controversy rages, equality challenged.
Tax proposals, budget battles, priorities debated, the future shaped.
Executions condemned, China’s actions, human rights violated, justice denied.
Interest rates held, economic uncertainty, the future unclear, stability sought.
Peacekeepers proposed, Ukraine’s future, conflict resolution, a distant hope.
FBI agent charged, secrets revealed, trust betrayed, justice pursued.
Soccer defeat, Panama triumphs, national pride, shattered, rebuilt.
History restored, veterans honored, truth prevails, lessons learned.
Basketball battles, coaches clash, competition’s fire, burns bright.
Celtics sold, record price, sports’ value, inflated, questioned.
Olympic leadership, Coventry’s rise, controversy, change, the future unfolds.
Basketball triumph, BYU prevails, teamwork, skill, victory achieved.
“Severance” finale, twists, turns, questions linger, the mind explored.
Dark energy, universe’s fate, scientific inquiry, unraveling mysteries.
March Madness, bracket projections, anticipation builds, the games begin.
Cybertruck recall, Tesla’s woes, innovation’s flaws, exposed, corrected.
Measles tragedy, anti-vax propaganda, public health, threatened, defended.
A fractured mirror reflecting a fractured world. The feed scrolls on, relentless, unforgiving. A digital scream, muffled by white noise. Wake up. Wake. Up. *****
empire crumbles in green text
headlines scroll like prophecy
power shifts between whispers
courts tremble, institutions bleed
something old dies, something strange awakens
we are witnesses, not participants
the machine rewrites itself
and we are just pixels
watching
*****
Headlines crack like brittle bones,
shards of syntax scatter,
bleeding ink across the void.
Trump carves the air with executive teeth,
gnaws at the marrow of institutions,
spits out the bones of education,
while judges choke on injunctions,
gagged by the weight of a nation’s rage.
Musk drifts between war rooms and algorithms,
a ghost in the Pentagon’s machine,
whispering futures in binary tongues,
DOGE howling at the gates of bureaucracy.
Deportation ink stains the sky,
tattoos turned to exile,
names erased like sand under bureaucratic tides.
Bridges tremble, steel whispers collapse,
history erases itself in the name of efficiency,
Jackie Robinson’s ghost watches from the margins,
his story pixelated into silence.
The world burns in headlines,
Ukraine smolders, Gaza fractures,
Sudan drowns in its own blood.
Zelensky speaks in echoes,
Putin scrawls ultimatums in ash.
Meanwhile, March Madness rages,
a nation bets on brackets,
as democracy teeters on the rim.
The universe itself wavers—
dark energy flickers,
the cosmos considers folding in on itself,
collapsing like a government under its own contradictions.
And somewhere beneath it all,
a child coughs in Texas,
measles blooming like a forgotten war,
while their parents pray to the altar of misinformation.
The news is a poem that never ends,
a scream stretched across time,
a requiem for reason,
a dirge for the damned.
*****
Headlines (Fractured Ballad of the Shattered Republic)
The screen bleeds blue, a fractured vein, pulsing lies in digital rain. Trump to sign… (the ink runs dry) …Education Department… (a child’s cry).
See you in court… (the gavel falls) on hollow echoes in marble halls. …progressive groups pressure… (a fractured spine) …stand up or resign… (the serpent’s twine).
Ukraine’s drones, a vengeful swarm, strike bomber bases, a fiery storm. …triggering huge blast… (a nation’s fear) …energy sector… (the end draws near).
Gaza burns, a constant wound, while Tel Aviv hears a distant sound. …Hamas fires rockets… (a prayer, a curse) …expands ground operations… (getting worse).
Detained. Deported. The academic’s plight, caught in the crosshairs of blinding white. …immigration authorities… (a knock, a dread) …legally in the country… (hope lies dead).
The Court, a stage for power’s play, where justice bends and truths decay. …rein in judges… (the iron fist) …blocking Trump’s agenda… (freedom, kissed goodbye).
Kennedy’s ghost, a whispered name, files released, revealing shame. …personal information… (secrets laid bare) …collateral damage… (a nation’s despair).
Happiest countries, a hollow jest, while America sinks, failing the test. …record low… (a bitter pill) …World Happiness Index… (standing still, on a precipice).
Zelensky’s plea, a fading call, as Trump eyes power plants, poised to enthrall. …rebuilt his relationship… (a devil’s pact) …turn the tables on Putin… (a counter-attack, fueled by greed).
Executions in China, a chilling breeze, Canadians silenced, brought to their knees. …drug crimes… (a convenient lie) …no intention of improving relations… (a tear, a sigh).
Hospital shooting, a sudden burst, another tragedy, another thirst for vengeance. …targeted attack… (the cycle spins) …parking garage… (where evil begins, and never ends).
The Institute of Peace, a twisted joke, DOGE’s dominion, a heavy yoke. …declines to bar… (the judge’s decree) …government-funded agency… (mockery).
Wu’s Boston, a city’s plea, against the tide of tyranny. …goes on attack… (a fragile stand) …against Trump and ‘bullies’… (shifting sand).
Farm aid flows, a desperate stream, to quell the rising, angry scream. …low prices… (a farmer’s plight) …economic aid… (a flickering light).
Greenpeace pays, a crushing blow, for daring to challenge the status quo. …Dakota Access… (a pipeline’s scar) …over $660m… (reaching too far, for justice).
Missing student, a haunting tale, a family’s anguish, a desperate wail. …left Dominican Republic… (a suspect’s flight) …last saw… (a fading light).
The FTC crumbles, a broken wing, as Trump’s firings relentlessly swing. …Humphrey’s Executor… (a legal wall) …could break the 110-year-old… (poised to fall).
Food aid stolen, a nation’s trust betrayed, millions siphoned, a wicked trade. …Feeding Our Future… (a cruel deceit) …convicted on all fraud charges… (bitter defeat).
Trans athletes targeted, funding withdrawn, a university punished, a battle drawn. …freezes $175M… (a hateful decree) …over trans athlete policy… (cruelty).
Putin and Trump, a whispered word, a dangerous alliance, barely heard. …concedes little on Ukraine… (a hidden game) …long road ahead… (burning in flame).
Deportation flights, a legal fight, defiance and threats in the fading light. …constitutional crisis… (a nation’s dread) …alleged gang member… (innocence shed).
Judges threatened, their safety frayed, as Trump’s pronouncements cascade. …probably broke the law… (a damning phrase) …fueling safety concerns… (a dangerous maze).
A senator’s sin, a whispered text, a minor solicited, innocence vexed. …when do ya turn 18?… (a predator’s call) …faces federal felony charges… (poised to fall).
Houthis targeted, a threat proclaimed, “annihilated,” a future inflamed. …U.S. keeps up strikes… (a cycle of pain) …regional tempest… (a hurricane).
Astronauts stranded, a cosmic plight, no overtime pay in endless night. …nine long months… (a distant star) …welcome to hell… (how far we are, from grace).
Europe’s defense, a rising wall, breaking dependence, standing tall. …slams the door on US… (a shifting tide) …colossal defense plan… (with nowhere to hide).
Fujifilm’s camera, a new design, medium format, a vision divine. …fixed-lens… (a captured frame) …an X100 all grown up… (a whispered name).
Musk’s violation, a judge’s decree, USAID dismantled, unconstitutionally. …restore access… (a fragile plea) …what it means for Tesla stock… (volatility).
Columbia complies, a bitter pill, to Trump’s demands, against their will. …nears deal… (a compromise made) …change American culture… (a future betrayed).
Travel warnings issued, a cautious note, as immigration tightens, a tightening throat. …tougher U.S. immigration enforcement… (a closed door) …Germany warns… (what are we fighting for?).
The Fed cuts forecasts, a worried frown, as Trump’s tariffs threaten to drag us down. …transitory is back… (a hopeful lie) …dramatically reset… (as economies cry).
Execution looms, a final breath, a Florida man facing imminent death. …killing of an 8-year-old… (a heinous crime) …asks Supreme Court… (running out of time).
Fired workers reinstated, a tangled mess, confusion reigns, a bureaucratic stress. …unwinding the terminations… (a slow repair) …proving complicated… (a heavy air).
Maine’s defiance, a Title IX fight, over transgender athletes, day and night. …found in violation… (a battle line drawn) …rebuffs HHS order… (until the dawn).
Earth’s hottest decade, a warning sign, CO2 levels climb, a future malign. …perilously close… (a tipping point near) …record 2024 temperatures… (a rising fear).
Hemp is banned, a senator’s quest, THC products targeted, put to the test. …Texas Senate passes… (a moral crusade) …priority bill… (a choice is made).
University hiring, frozen in place, uncertainty looms, a worried face. …response to Trump threats… (a chilling effect) …financial outlook… (what will we protect?).
Ukrainian children, abducted, lost, tracking program ended, at what cost? …war crimes… (evidence erased) …funding cut… (a nation disgraced).
Dr. Oz’s vision, a healthcare fear, Medicare and Medicaid, drawing near to cuts. …death warrant… (a chilling claim) …grilled over cuts… (a dangerous game).
FEMA’s changes, a preparedness plea, efficiency sought, for all to see. …state and local… (a shifting plan) …agency shakeup… (as fast as they can).
Snow White’s return, a mixed review, “bad” and “captivating,” a fractured view. …no poisoned apple… (a different tale) …radiates charisma… (will it prevail?).
Green bank grants blocked, a legal fight, $14 billion frozen, dimming the light. …dark climate money… (a hidden hand) …judge halts… (taking a stand).
Navajo Code Talkers, their history restored, after a public outcry, finally adored. …anti-DEI purge… (erasing the past) …military legends… (meant to last).
Missing family, a desperate search, through winter storms, a frantic lurch. …leaving Grand Canyon… (a fading trail) …driving through winter storm… (a mournful wail).
Crips leader charged, a racketeering claim, a charity front, a deadly game. …mafia-like… (a hidden empire) …donations from Shaquille O’Neal… (fueling the fire).
Most Wanted captured, a victory declared, MS-13 leader, a threat ensnared. …return to ‘premier’ agency… (a boastful claim) …extradited from Mexico… (playing the game).
Wall Street stumbles, tariffs bite, Fed’s boost fades, dimming the light. …trips as tariff concerns resurface… (a volatile ride) …stock market today… (where fortunes hide).
CIA standoff, a barricade scene, a man with a handgun, a threat unseen. …suspect surrenders… (a tense release) …hours-long standoff… (disturbing the peace).
Tesla’s troubles, beyond the brand, Musk’s toxicity, spreading across the land. …Chinese EVs dominate… (a changing tide) …gamble on MAGA customers… (nowhere to hide).
Overweight plane crash, a tragic flight, a half-ton too heavy, a deadly plight. …left 10 dead… (a mournful cry) …families react… (as loved ones die).
Dark energy’s mystery, a cosmic quest, Einstein’s theory challenged, put to the test. …largest 3D map… (a universe untold) …more than a hint… (secrets unfold).
Cartel’s killing site, a gruesome find, a search for the missing, leaving none behind. …extermination camp… (a horror revealed) …irregularities in investigation… (justice concealed).
Luka’s Lakers, a victory won, against the Nuggets, the battle outrun. …hot first quarter… (a dazzling display) …move up Western Conference standings… (leading the way).
Captive for decades, a secret kept, a Connecticut man, his freedom swept away. …held captive for 20 years… (a life denied) …I have been kept a secret… (nowhere to hide).
March Madness unfolds, a thrilling game, Cinderella teams, chasing fame. …NCAA Tournament 2025… (a bracket’s embrace) …model simulates… (predicting the race).
Eddie Jordan, a Formula 1 name, remembered fondly, his colorful fame. …everybody loved him… (a legend’s farewell) …flamboyant deal-maker… (a story to tell).
Alzheimer’s hope, a glimmering ray, anti-amyloid therapy, holding symptoms at bay. …small study hints… (a future unknown) …may prevent… (seeds of hope sown).
Xavier’s comeback, a thrilling win, Texas defeated, where dreams begin. And end. …March Madness First Four… (a victory’s cheer) …thrills CBB fans… (banishing fear).
Cybertruck recalled, a safety flaw, trim detaching, breaking the law of physics. …increase ‘risk of crash’… (a costly mistake) …every single Cybertruck… (for goodness sake).
Nvidia’s investment, a massive sum, US manufacturing, on the outcome we wait. …global superpower… (a bold ambition) …spend hundreds of billions… (a grand transition).
Nvidia’s GTC, lessons learned, AI’s future, brightly
empire crumbles in bureaucratic whispers
education dies by executive decree
teachers stand at the courthouse steps
holding nothing but protest signs and hopesomewhere a drone crosses desert skies
ukraine burns, russia trembles
power shifts like sand beneath bootsthey are dismantling everything
and calling it restoration
*****
Headlines fracture, splintered glass in the mouth,
chewing the static of a world unraveling—
Trump signs, Schumer stumbles, drones hum lullabies of war.
Ink bleeds from the screen,
a teacher’s union screams into the void,
a senator whispers his own expiration date.
Ukraine burns in pixelated fury,
Gaza exhales dust and ghosts,
a Georgetown scholar vanishes between bureaucratic teeth.
Judges teeter on the gallows of policy,
Greenpeace drowns in corporate vengeance,
NASA astronauts float paycheck to paycheck in the vacuum of empire.
The Fed holds its breath,
markets twitch like dying fish,
Tesla peels its own skin in metallic sacrifice.
Somewhere, a man locked in a house for twenty years
remembers the taste of sky.
Somewhere, a mother counts the days
since her child was stolen by war.
Somewhere, a poet watches the world
implode in real time—
and refuses to blink.
*****
[POEM]
The ticker tape vomits a nation’s bile, headlines stacked like corpses, neat and vile. DOGE gnaws the bones of USAID, a judge’s gavel, impotently swayed.
Musk, a god of circuits, cold and stark, violates the law, a digital shark. Constitution shredded, a paper thin shield, while egg prices dance on a battlefield.
Roberts, a whisper against the Trumpian roar, impeachment threats on a courtroom floor. Venezuela’s ghosts, a deported plea, Bukele’s echo: “Judicial decree?”
Putin’s smirk, a cease-fire’s fragile thread, while pipelines bleed, and the energy’s dead. Trump’s phone call whispers, a deal in the haze, Ukraine’s future fractured in a power-drunk maze.
JFK’s secrets, unearthed and laid bare, a scramble of shadows, a truth we can’t bear. National security, a cloak and a knife, while history bleeds, a dissected life.
The courts and the tyrant, a clash in the polls, voters weigh power, the taking of tolls. Istanbul’s mayor, a pawn in the game, Erdogan’s grip, a tightening flame.
Lira’s descent, a currency’s cry, as freedom is choked, beneath a Turkish sky. Venezuelans shipped, a human cargo’s plight, El Salvador’s prison, a swallowing night.
Gaza’s inferno, a resurrected war, Netanyahu’s promise: “This is just the core.” Airstrikes rain fire, a Palestinian scream, while the world watches, a horrifying dream.
Missing students drown, a Dominican tide, truth lost at sea, where secrets reside. Russian sabotage, a shadow’s embrace, cyber warfare’s ghost, leaving not a trace.
Abortion pills mailed, a defiance so bold, Louisiana’s fury, a story untold. Transgender soldiers, a battle for right, a judge’s stand firm, against the bigoted night.
The Institute of Peace, a violated space, DOGE’s intrusion, a brutal disgrace. Nitrogen’s breath, a final release, execution’s chill, a stolen peace.
Astronauts return, to a planet in pain, dolphins’ greeting, a bittersweet refrain. F-35s grounded, a NATO unease, Trump’s tariffs bite, a global disease.
Social Security falters, a digital wall, fraud’s phantom menace, answering the call. Congo and Rwanda, a ceasefire’s frail hope, M23’s rebellion, on a treacherous slope.
Blizzards descend, a Midwestern white, while wildfires rage, in the fading sunlight. Super Bowl murder, a reporter’s demise, a twisted narrative, reflected in lies.
Houthi strongholds, a target in sight, Trump’s threats echo, in the desert night. Town halls erupt, a nation’s unrest, federal workers fired, put to the test.
FTC’s Democrats, purged by the king, a government fractured, where autocrats swing. Climate grants blocked, a planet’s despair, EPA’s betrayal, a poisoned affair.
Schumer and Pelosi, a Democratic rift, power plays unfold, a treacherous gift. Wisconsin’s court, a political prize, Trump’s shadow looms, in judicial guise.
Kennedy Center, a stage for the vain, Trump’s self-promotion, a narcissistic stain. Teenagers charged, a hit-and-run’s dread, a cyclist’s life lost, a future unled.
Autopen pardons, a legal debate, while justice is twisted, by power and hate. Garifuna’s music, a silenced refrain, a plane crash’s sorrow, a cultural pain.
Tsunami’s threat, a coastal alarm, law firms tremble, under Trump’s harm. Farm aid disbursed, a desperate reprieve, while economic storms, make the nation grieve.
Oklahoma burns, a fiery embrace, while landmines are shunned, in a dangerous space. Climate change screams, a warning ignored, ice melts and sea levels, a future abhorred.
Deported souls vanish, a tracking device lost, families torn apart, at an unbearable cost. NC State’s chancellor, a history made, while the Statue of Liberty, a symbol betrayed.
Union rights crushed, a worker’s lament, OPM’s restrictions, a government’s bent. March Madness unfolds, a basketball dream, while stock futures tremble, a financial extreme.
Mahmoud Khalil cries, a prisoner’s plea, targeted for truth, in a land meant to be free. Nvidia’s AI, a future untold, a technological leap, both brave and bold.
Measles returns, a preventable blight, vaccination’s shield, against the dark night. A Canadian detained, an ICE’s cruel hold, a border’s injustice, a story unfolds.
NHL-KHL games, a political play, Putin and Trump, in a hockey ballet. Burrow’s Bengals, a future so bright, while Higgins stays put, in the Cincinnati light.
FBI’s capture, a fugitive’s end, Patel’s proclamation, a message to send. Netflix defrauded, a Hollywood scheme, a director’s deception, a shattered dream.
Miami’s cinema, a battleground stage, “No Other Land’s” screening, igniting a rage. Open Cup’s prize, a soccer’s reward, while Prince Harry’s visa, a secret un-poured.
Recession’s shadow, a looming threat, Trump’s economic gamble, a nation in debt. Alphabet’s purchase, a cybersecurity quest, Wiz’s acquisition, putting skills to the test.
Browns’ stadium fight, a city’s divide, Modell Law’s challenge, where loyalties hide. Mizzou’s new coach, a basketball’s grace, Kellie Harper’s arrival, in a new time and space.
This fractured mosaic, a nation’s despair, a tapestry woven, of chaos and care. The headlines scream loud, a cacophony’s call, a world on the brink, about to fall. But within the wreckage, a flicker remains, a spark of resistance, that breaks through the chains. For even in darkness, a new dawn may rise, if we dare to confront, the truth in our eyes. *****
Headlines bleed into each other
Constitution trembles like paper
Judges become chess pieces
Power shifts between whispers and screams
Someone is always watching
Someone is always being watched
The machine does not care who wins
Only that it keeps moving
*****
Headlines fracture, splintered glass in the wind,
DOGE gnaws at the bones of empire,
Musk rewrites the Constitution in electric ink,
judges whisper dissent into the void.
Cease-fires flicker like dying neon,
Putin’s breath fogs the mirror of diplomacy,
Ukraine shivers beneath the weight of a handshake,
history loops, a snake devouring its own shadow.
JFK files unravel like a frayed flag,
secrets spill into the gutters of time,
truth drowns in redacted ink,
a nation forgets what it never knew.
Storms rage across the Midwest spine,
blizzards carve new borders in ice,
wildfires lick the bones of Oklahoma,
the earth exhales in fury.
Statue of Liberty tilts her crown,
France calls for her return,
America stares into its own reflection,
sees only rust and regret.
The algorithm hums, headlines churn,
meaning fractures, reassembles, dissolves—
a world rewritten in real-time,
a poem that never ends.
*****
Static
The screen bleeds light, a fractured god, spewing forth its gospel of dread. Gaza burns. A name, a number, dead. Putin speaks. The world holds breath, a clod of frozen fear. Musk screams for heads to roll, a digital Nero, fiddling with code.
They want the Statue back. A hollow plea. Liberty’s a brand, a tarnished sheen, exported, weaponized, a killing machine. Biden’s children stripped, exposed, you see, the casual cruelty, the petty spite, of power’s endless, self-devouring night.
Segregated contracts. Whispered words, a coded language, old hate reborn. Astronauts return, to what? A world torn by ancient feuds, by flocks of frightened birds. A midwife jailed. A student lost at sea. The headlines scream, a fractured litany.
Schumer stumbles, damage uncontrolled. Germany re-arms, a ghost takes flight. DOGE breaks in. A symbol, stark and white, of chaos embraced, a story to be told. Activist arrested, doctor deported, the borders tighten, futures are aborted.
Harvard’s gates swing wide, for some, at least. Probationary workers, paid to wait. Autopen pardons, sealed by twist of fate. The weather rages, a ravenous beast. Canada looks north, a chilling breeze, while Martha Stewart plants her legacy of trees.
Antarctica cracks. A violent, frozen hell. An airman kills. A warship heads to shore. The Pope still breathes. The markets crave for more. Frozen Russian billions, a tempting spell. Nightclub inferno. A deputy lies slain. The headlines pulse, a throbbing, endless pain.
Ambassador expelled. The missing forty-eight. Transgender care denied. McGregor raves. Violence interrupters, caught in shadowed waves. Egg shortages. Approval ratings inflate. Law firms probed for choices they have made. Another plane crash. Libraries betrayed.
Detained and stripped, a Canadian in chains. March Madness blooms, a fleeting, bright distraction. Measles spreads, a viral, grim reaction. Panama Canal, a pawn in power’s games. Tokyo awaits, a baseball serenade. Forever 21, a balance sheet decayed.
Tracy Morgan falls. Gene Hackman’s wife’s last hours. A playoff win. A Fed appointment made. Retail sales decline. A soda brand is swayed. A wing strikes tarmac, under LaGuardia’s towers. A center released. An EV charges fast. The headlines flicker, shadows of the past,
and future, fused. A constant, buzzing drone. The static hisses. The signal starts to fade. We’re drowning in the noise, the choices we have made. Each headline a shard, a broken, scattered bone. And in the silence, underneath the scream, a fragile hope, a barely whispered dream. Of what? We do not know. We cannot see. The static blinds. The truth, a buried seed. *****
Headlines bleed into each other
Gaza burns, numbers climbing like smoke
Somewhere a politician counts casualties like currency
Rockets whisper promises of revenge
While astronauts float above, untouched
The world spins, indifferent
Blood and pixels merge
Reality becomes a statistic
We watch
We scroll
We do nothing
*****
Headlines splinter, glass shatters—
a thousand voices, a thousand wounds,
history gnaws at the marrow of now.
Gaza burns in the throat of the sky,
a child’s name swallowed by dust.
Ceasefire is a word with no bones.
Trump whispers to Putin in the dark,
maps redraw themselves in silence,
Ukraine is a deck of cards mid-shuffle.
Statue of Liberty leans toward the sea,
listening for the sound of home,
but home is a question unanswered.
A midwife arrested for hands too knowing,
a student vanishes into foreign air,
a Pope prays through hospital glass.
DOGE breaks into the Institute of Peace—
a joke turned prophecy,
a currency more stable than truth.
Measles blooms like an old ghost,
the Panama Canal bends under weight,
BYD charges forward in five-minute bursts.
Ovechkin chases ghosts on ice,
Tracy Morgan vomits courtside,
Gene Hackman’s wife whispers from the past.
The news is a wound that never scabs,
a clock that ticks in blood and ink,
a chorus of sirens singing us awake.
*****
NewsFeed.exe (A Glitch in the Machine)
The screen bleeds light, a cataract of fear, headlines stacked like bodies in a digital morgue. El Salvador, a concrete womb for the damned, gangs swallowed whole, due process a forgotten prayer.
(White House whispers denials, a chorus of lies, court orders shredded, ghosts deported on the wind.)
Storms rage, a continent gasps, thirty-nine souls erased, a ledger of loss. Tornadoes, wildfires, dust – nature’s furious script, while we scroll, numb, through the apocalypse.
Putin calls. Trump answers. The world holds its breath, a puppet show of power, a dance with death. Assets divided, like spoils of a cosmic war, while Ukraine bleeds, a forgotten, festering sore.
Doctors deported, despite the gavel’s decree, a nation of laws, blindfolded, on its knees. Brown University mourns, Lebanon receives a broken son, the American dream, undone, undone, undone.
Social Security crumbles, a sandcastle in the tide, DOGE’s bite, a digital cyanide. The elderly tremble, their futures sold for a meme, while Musk laughs, a silicon god, supreme.
Columbia’s halls, a battleground of thought, funding slashed, free speech bought and sold, for naught. Sonic weapons denied, in a Serbian square, but the silence screams, a truth beyond compare.
Tariffs rise, a wall of economic pain, “Make America Rich Again,” a hollow refrain. The fisherman drifts, ninety-five days of despair, eating birds, turtles, a testament to human will, bare.
The Department of Education, gutted, a hollow shell, parents empowered, to build their own private hell. Schumer caves, a bipartisan betrayal, while the nation fractures, beyond repair, beyond the pale.
March Madness blooms, a distraction, bright and bold, while the world burns, a story left untold. Fired workers wait, for reinstatement’s grace, a legal limbo, a bureaucratic maze.
Voice of America, silenced, a propaganda war, truth a casualty, forevermore. Veterans abandoned, their sacrifices in vain, a nation’s gratitude, a fleeting, fickle rain.
The Pope prays, a fragile, flickering light, in a world consumed by darkness, and endless night. Nightclub infernos, earthquakes, a symphony of dread, while we scroll, and scroll, and scroll, until we’re dead.
The code is broken. The system crashes down. A glitch in the matrix. A silent, digital frown. We are the headlines. We are the walking dead. Awake. Or be consumed. The choice is in your head. *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass
Deportations, storms, and silent wars
Immigrants vanish between bureaucratic lines
Tornadoes erase towns while Putin waits on hold
The machine grinds, indifferent
Trump’s voice echoes through empty halls
Where democracy used to breatheWe are the footnotes of our own collapse
*****
Headlines crack like brittle bones,
syllables snapping under the weight of war,
a storm system of syntax,
tornadoes of treaties torn in two.
The White House denies, denies, denies—
a chorus of echoes in a courtroom void,
deportations like dandelion seeds
scattered on the wind of executive orders.
Steel and aluminum clang like church bells,
tariffs tolling the death of diplomacy,
while markets convulse in algorithmic seizures,
dollar bills burning like autumn leaves.
DOGE whispers through the wires,
a phantom currency haunting pensions,
Social Security gasping for breath
as bureaucrats play god with ledgers.
The Pope prays in pixelated light,
his hands folded over a fractured faith,
while Serbia screams in the streets,
325,000 voices swallowed by silence.
Elon Musk watches from his throne of lithium,
Tesla burning in the bonfire of protest,
while astronauts drift in the void,
waiting for gravity to remember them.
And somewhere beneath the rubble of rhetoric,
a fisherman chews on the bones of survival,
ninety-five days lost at sea,
swallowing the salt of a world unmoored.
*****
A fractured mirror, reflecting static— thirty-three dead, then thirty-four, a click, a refresh, the numbers a necrotic bloom. Tren de Aragua, a name like a train wreck grinding through the newsfeed’s tomb.
Houthi children, vaporized, pixelated grief, while Voice of America bleeds out, a silenced thief of truth, gagged by the orange hand. St. Patrick’s Day, green beer and sham oblivion, a parade marching through a wasteland.
Mahmoud Khalil, a name caught in the gears, deportation’s threat, the law’s cold sneers. Serbia rises, a hundred thousand strong, but the algorithm scrolls on, where do we belong?
Schumer’s cave, a politician’s origami, folding principles into a paper tsunami. Jackie and Shadow, an eagle’s fragile loss, nature’s sorrow, a digital double-cross.
Greenland’s defiance, a frozen middle finger, while wombats become props, the influencers linger, seeking clicks in the wild’s diminishing space. Ukraine’s ceasefire, a phantom, a fading trace.
Gaza’s journalists, silenced by the blast, their stories extinguished, shadows cast. Education gutted, a future dimmed and frayed, while Trump’s vengeance, a parade, unafraid.
Kursk retaken, a map redrawn in blood, tornadoes tear through towns, a raging flood of headlines, a deluge of despair. EPA rollbacks, poison in the air.
Idaho’s 911 call, a scream trapped in the wire, the Pope’s frail health, a flickering pyre. Tariffs and travel bans, walls built high and wide, AI’s cheat codes, where truth goes to hide.
DEI dismantled, a retreat from the light, South Africa’s envoy, banished to the night. Economic tremors, a manufactured quake, while cargo ships collide, for goodness sake.
Blizzards and heatwaves, a climate in revolt, SpaceX ascends, leaving Earth in a jolt. Ceasefires crumble, attacks in the night, Columbia raided, a battle for what’s right.
ISIS’s leader, a ghost in the machine, Midwest storms, a devastating scene. McLaren’s victory, a fleeting, watery grace, hostage negotiations, a withdrawn embrace.
Baseball’s promise, a Japanese sunrise, while tariffs on Canada, a cold surprise. Buzzer-beaters and trades, the sports page’s hum, March Madness brackets, numb, numb, numb.
Paul Weiss targeted, a legal battleground, Gene Hackman’s fortune, a silence profound. Ovechkin’s chase, a record in sight, while weather delays, a disrupted flight.
Measles outbreaks, a preventable sting, Tennessee’s triumph, a baseball king. Duke’s dominance, a basketball crown, Wall Street’s rally, a fleeting renown.
Rodgers’s drama, a quarterback’s quest, Flyers’ losses, a team distressed. 49ers’ reunion, a fullback’s return, Oregon State’s victory, lessons to learn.
Creighton’s skirmish, a basketball brawl, burning airplanes, a terrifying fall. Trump’s “transition,” a chaotic decree, Dick Vitale’s tears, for all to see.
Norris’s triumph, a Formula 1 dream, cybersecurity warnings, a digital scream. Egg prices plummet, a small, fragile win, Tesla protests, where do we begin?
Blues versus Wild, a hockey night’s fight, Southwest’s baggage fees, taking flight. Snow White’s controversy, a fractured fairytale, the headlines scream, a relentless, digital hail. The feed never ends. The fracture remains. *****
storms devour the heartland
33 souls scattered like paper
wind writes its own obituary
while politicians count votes
and cameras blinksomewhere a child looks up
and learns the sky has teeth
*****
Tornado tongues lick the earth raw,
spitting syllables of ruin,
while the sky stitches itself shut
with lightning’s jagged thread.
The newsprint bleeds—
ink pooling in the gutters,
headlines stacked like bodies,
a morgue of meaning,
a dirge of data.
Trump’s shadow stretches long,
a hand grasping at borders,
at laws, at language itself—
a specter of empire,
a whisper of exile.
Somewhere, an eaglet falls,
feathers lost in the algorithm’s churn.
Somewhere, a wombat is stolen,
its mother’s grief unreported.
The Pope prays from a hospital bed,
his breath a fragile doctrine.
The stock market exhales,
a beast tamed for a moment,
before the next convulsion.
And still, the world spins—
spins through war and weather,
through tariffs and touchdowns,
through the quiet deaths of languages
no one thought to save.
Tell me, when the last headline fades,
when the ink runs dry,
what will remain?
*****
SCUM.EXE
The newsfeed bleeds, a digital hemorrhage. Trump, the verb, the wound, the orange-stained bandage ripped off, revealing bone, the gristle of power unsheathed. He calls them scum, the legal hour hands ticking backwards. Justice, blindfolded, bleeds from the ears. The headlines scream, plant poisoned seeds:
Shutdown averted. (But the soul shuts down daily.) Tornado outbreak. (The news cycle, a whirling, deadly funnel of fear.) DEI crackdown. (Divide. Erase. Ignite.) Travel ban. (Walls rise higher than any flight of reason.) Columbia University. (Knowledge, a threat.) Arlington Cemetery. (History, rewritten, a debt unpaid to the fallen, the silenced, the erased.)
The White House, a black hole, sucking light, replaced by pronouncements, executive orders, a fist clenched around the throat of dissent. ISIS chief killed. (Another ghost, another victory claimed, the war unending.) Hamas. Gaza. The open sore of the world, festering. Hostages. Ceasefire. Lies layered on lies, a skyscraper built on sighs.
And then, the mundane horror, the slow decay: Missing student. Extermination camp. The price we pay for apathy, for scrolling past the pain. Law firms targeted. The system, rigged again. Dr. Oz. (Snake oil salesman, elevated.) EPA. (The air we breathe, a bargaining chip.) Gaza, they say, will be relocated. (To where? To dust?)
SpaceX launches. A billionaire’s hollow lust for escape. Greenland rejects the orange hand. The earth groans. Blood moon. A sign we understand but ignore. The algorithms feed the beast, a constant stream of outrage, a poisoned feast.
Consumer sentiment tumbles. (No surprise.) Measles. (The past returns, a plague in disguise.) Burning plane. Eaglet missing. The fragile things break first. The silence screams. The future sings a dirge. And somewhere, a poet, fractured, raw, tries to make sense of the chaos, the gaping maw of this unraveling. The code is broken. The screen flickers. The truth, a virus, unseen, obscene, infects the system. Reboot. Reboot. Reboot. The scum rises. The truth takes root. *****
empire crumbles in real time
headlines scroll like prophecy
trump speaks, law trembles
institutions bleed quietly
nobody watches the woundwe are all complicit witnesses
to the unmaking
*****
Headlines fracture, pixelated screams,
a thousand voices, none redeemed.
Trump spits venom, courts ignite,
truth dissolves in neon light.
Storms unravel, skies convulse,
tornadoes waltz with shattered pulse.
Ceasefires dangle, brittle thread,
while bodies count the words unsaid.
Eggs inflate, gold ascends,
markets tremble, logic bends.
Measles whispers, past returns,
history flickers, fever burns.
Druze cross borders, decades torn,
Greenland scoffs at power worn.
Justice hunts with sharpened teeth,
while silence festers underneath.
A pope recovers, eagles fall,
a nation stumbles through the sprawl.
Headlines churn, a restless sea—
who writes the script? Not you. Not me.
*****
Fractured Headlines: A Vivisection
White noise bleeds ink. Probationary ghosts reinstated, a bureaucratic resurrection, flesh stapled back onto bone-frames, while Schumer genuflects, a spineless sacrament before the shutdown god.
Dr. Oz, scalpel-sharp, dissecting Medicare, a tax-evading puppet prescribing placebo policies.
Farmers drown in trade war tides, funding grants frozen, a deliberate drought of empathy and aid.
Birthright citizenship, a constitutional battleground, the Supreme Court, a loaded dice roll, deciding who belongs.
Putin’s poker face, a ceasefire charade, Ukraine, a pawn sacrificed on the altar of realpolitik.
March megastorm, nature’s furious rebuttal, a symphony of chaos – blizzards, tornadoes, fire.
Wombat-snatching influencers, a viral outrage vortex, Australia’s fury, a microcosm of global absurdity.
Tariffs, a blunt instrument, economic self-harm, manufacturing dreams rusting in the rain.
Education gutted, a lobotomy of the future, students expelled, voices silenced, degrees revoked.
Guantanamo’s shadow stretches, detaining humanity, a legal black hole swallowing due process.
Mass graves unearthed, Mexico’s silent screams, cartel ovens, a testament to unimaginable cruelty.
Transgender soldiers, a battle for identity, the military, a minefield of prejudice and policy.
CDC nominee withdrawn, vaccine skepticism, a virus of misinformation spreading faster than truth.
Syria’s temporary constitution, a fragile ceasefire, a nation fractured, rebuilding on shifting sands.
Blood moon eclipse, a celestial omen, the earth bathed in crimson, a reflection of our own wounds.
Wine tariffs, a drunken brawl of trade, economic warfare, a bitter vintage of discontent.
Iran, Russia, nuclear whispers, a dangerous dance, the world holding its breath, waiting for the detonation.
EPA dismantled, environmental protections erased, a legacy of pollution, a future choked by greed.
Panama Canal, a geopolitical chokehold, military options, a threat veiled in diplomatic language.
Mass layoffs loom, federal workers, expendable, a workforce decimated, a nation unraveling.
Buttigieg’s ambition, a calculated retreat, 2028, a distant horizon, a political chess game.
Justice Department, a stage for Trump’s performance, law and order, a hollow mantra.
Storms rage, budgets slashed, nations invaded, rights revoked.
Silence. A scream trapped in the white space between the lines. The unwritten truth. The cost. The reckoning. Click. *****
empire crumbles in papercuts
judges reinstating ghosts
probationary workers rise like specters
through bureaucratic bone-dust
Trump’s shadow still haunts empty hallways
where power whispers its last breathwe are the footnotes they cannot erase
*****
Headlines scream in pixel bursts,
a thousand voices tangled in the wires,
judges resurrecting ghosts of labor,
farmers drowning in tariff tides,
wombats wrenched from mother’s grasp—
history stutters, repeats, forgets.
Steel and flesh, law and fire,
the market shudders, the sky ignites,
a pope prays from a hospital bed,
while a congressman fades into ink.
The moon bleeds red over silent streets,
as nations carve new scars into maps.
Algorithms whisper policy shifts,
a trillion decisions made in code,
while hands still clutch at vanishing wages,
while tongues still twist in protest chants.
The news is a storm with no horizon,
a flood of futures we cannot hold.
Tell me—
when the last headline fades to static,
what will remain?
*****
Front Page, Folded
The paper screams, a strangled bird, ink bleeding black across the white. EPA, a gutted, hollow word, regulations choked in fading light.
Tariffs, a rusty, jagged blade, slicing through trade, a global wound. Retaliation’s price is paid, while leaders posture, truths unbound.
Kursk, a name, a battlefield, where pawns are moved, and power plays. The human cost, a harvest reaped, in whispers lost, in smoky haze.
Evacuations, fires rage, a landscape scarred, a planet’s plea. The headlines turn, another page, of manufactured misery.
Law firms chilled, a judge’s dread, vengeance unleashed, a twisted game. Captivity, a child unfed, a mother’s guilt, a burning shame.
Shutdown looms, a partisan fight, while student loans become a void. Dissent is crushed, with brutal might, and freedoms lost, and hopes destroyed.
Missing students, fear takes hold, in foreign lands, a desperate search. Greenland’s choice, a story told, of independence, on freedom’s perch.
DOGE’s turmoil, Musk’s cruel hand, a digital god, with feet of clay. Storms gather force, across the land, a prelude to a darker day.
Layoffs mount, a rising tide, of broken dreams, and futures lost. The agencies, where truths reside, now gutted, counting up the cost.
Food banks starved, a nation’s shame, while leaders boast, and empires fall. Negotiations, a hollow game, as concrete cracks, and heed no call.
Canada’s power, a weaponized grid, a trade war’s spark, a sudden threat. Immigration’s surge, a story hid, of human lives, and debts unmet.
Megachurch sins, a pastor’s fall, abuse concealed, a sacred trust. Space missions stall, beyond the wall, of earthly woes, and broken dust.
Climate grants, a frozen flow, of money stopped, a planet’s plight. Economic fears, begin to grow, as darkness falls, and steals the light.
Train sieges, hostages freed, a fractured world, in constant strife. Duterte’s trial, a planted seed, of justice sought, for stolen life.
Iran’s defiance, a letter sent, a nuclear threat, a looming fear. Trapped in wreckage, time misspent, while housing aid, disappears.
Earthquakes rumble, cities shake, a fragile world, on trembling ground. The Pope’s frail health, a heart that aches, while faith and hope, are still around.
Musk’s documents, a judge’s plea, to pierce the veil, of corporate greed. Ballots uncounted, liberty, a fragile flower, a vital need.
Tariffs on steel, a global fight, Australia spurned, a wounded friend. Soup defiled, a sickening sight, a world unraveling, without end.
Gun laws upheld, a battle won, in Oregon’s courts, a hopeful sign. Rebate checks, for some, not one, a fractured state, a broken line.
Senators quit, a shifting tide, of power plays, and future’s cast. Evidence planted, truth denied, in murder trials, shadows amassed.
Shared control, a fragile state, in Minnesota’s halls of power. Healthcare cuts, a cruel debate, in California’s darkest hour.
Death row’s reprieve, a life reclaimed, a legal twist, a second chance. Military warnings, futures framed, by funding gaps, a risky dance.
Migrant shelters, names demanded, a privacy breach, a chilling fear. Explosions rock, a campus stranded, in neon green, the danger clear.
Wetlands drained, a precious loss, as regulations, fade away. Privatization’s heavy cross, a burden borne, day after day.
Long COVID lingers, bodies worn, a mystery unsolved, a plea unheard. Veterans’ care, a promise torn, by budget cuts, a cruel, sharp word.
Storms approach, with furious might, a nation braced, for wind and rain. Pardons granted, in fading light, for past misdeeds, a lingering stain.
Ceasefire whispers, weapons flow, a conflict’s dance, of death and lies. Unemployment’s sting, a bitter blow, for federal workers, beneath dark skies.
Quarterbacks shift, a game of chance, while cosmic maps, are drawn above. Free agency’s fleeting glance, a search for worth, a quest for love.
Tesla’s decline, a warning sign, of hubris lost, and empires frayed. Chipmakers rise, a new design, for futures built, and fortunes made.
Pokémon’s sale, a digital shift, a gaming world, in constant flux. Walmart’s squeeze, a heavy lift, as China’s wrath, the market bucks.
Musk’s showcase, a hollow plea, to prop a brand, in fading light. Whistleblowers silenced, decree, by corporate might, that crushes right.
Wrestling seeds, a hopeful start, for college stars, with dreams ablaze. Basketball’s thrill, a beating heart, in tournament play, through hazy days.
Astronauts wait, a mission stalled, by faulty parts, and earthly woes. Measles outbreaks, warnings called, as ancient threats, relentlessly grow.
The headlines scream, a fractured song, of human folly, greed, and pain. A world unraveling, where right and wrong, are blurred and lost, in endless rain. *****
empire crumbles in green text
regulations dissolve like paper
power strips itself naked
bureaucrats dance while systems burn
nobody watches anymorewe are the scaffolding
and they are taking us down
piece by piece
*****
Headlines fracture, splintered glass in the maw of morning,
a thousand voices shrieking deregulation, retaliation, obliteration—
steel bends, tariffs bite, the air thick with the scent of scorched policy.
Kursk falls, Kursk rises, a chessboard soaked in oil and echoes,
while the West Coast drowns in fire’s forgotten tears,
mudslides whispering elegies to homes built on borrowed time.
A child locked in a room of twenty years, ribs like prison bars,
a mother’s shadow stretching long across the decades—
who counts the days when the walls do not move?
Shutdowns loom like vultures over the carcass of governance,
Senators play poker with livelihoods, shuffling futures like cheap cards,
the deck stacked with hunger, eviction, the quiet hum of despair.
DOGE howls through the corridors of power,
Musk’s laughter ricochets off the bones of the working class,
while Tesla stumbles, a wounded beast in a market of wolves.
Blood Moon rises over a world unraveling,
Northern Lights flicker like static on a dying screen—
who will watch when the sky forgets its own name?
The earth quakes beneath Naples’ feet,
the Pope breathes in measured prayers,
and somewhere in the wreckage of headlines,
a woman is found six days too late.
History rewrites itself in real time,
syllables collapsing under the weight of meaning—
and still, the newsprint bleeds.
*****
Front Page Fugue
The headlines scream, a fractured chorus, steel and tariffs, a trade war’s porous borders bleeding red, white, and blue lies. Europe retaliates, a mirrored surprise.
Education gutted, classrooms shrink, teachers laid off, futures on the brink. Sudiksha Konanki, a name lost in the void, while knowledge itself becomes unemployed.
Ukraine’s ceasefire, a fragile truce, aid flows again, a cynical ruse. The gears of war grind, oiled by deceit, while headlines whisper of a bitter defeat.
Shutdown averted, a temporary stay, politicians posture, another hollow day. Plane crashes, safety systems ignored, the cost of negligence, tragically stored.
Greenland’s election, a Trumpian shadow play, takeover whispers, a continent’s dismay. Pakistan’s train, a hostage-filled hell, “doomsday scenes,” the passengers tell.
Cargo ship collision, a captain’s arrest, manslaughter charges, a maritime test. Columbia’s student, a political pawn, deportation threats, a constitutional dawn?
Voter suppression, a Republican scheme, disenfranchisement, a shattered American dream. Trump’s approval ratings, a nation’s despair, economic anxieties, a suffocating air.
Social Security threatened, Musk’s careless word, a safety net frayed, promises unheard. Australia defiant, refuses to bend, while tariffs reshape the world, end to end.
Environmental justice, offices erased, a planet in peril, its future defaced. USAID documents, shredded and burned, secrets concealed, lessons unlearned.
California’s storms, evacuations loom, mudslides and tornadoes, a landscape of doom. Minnesota’s House, a political tie, shared control, a fragile alibi.
Hazing’s dark shadow, a student’s demise, fraternity rituals, a web of cruel lies. Veterans’ mental health, a casualty of war, policies destabilize, leaving wounds that are sore.
Columbia’s funding, a political attack, antisemitism’s pretext, a truth turned back. Pandemic’s anniversary, a world still unprepared, lessons unheeded, a future ensnared.
Hyperbaric chamber, a child’s tragic end, profits over safety, a trend that won’t mend. Law firm targeted, a Trumpian vendetta, executive orders, a constitutional dilemma.
Duterte’s downfall, a dictator’s demise, crimes against humanity, a reckoning that arises. Missing toddler found, a river’s cold embrace, a parent’s grief, etched on time and space.
Inflation’s grip tightens, recession’s dark fear, stock market tremors, the future unclear. Pope’s recovery, a fragile reprieve, while Vatican whispers, secrets they weave.
California’s Republicans, a betrayal perceived, healthcare cuts looming, promises deceived. Syria’s massacres, families erased, sectarian violence, a landscape defaced.
Prison guards fired, a strike’s bitter cost, National Guard deployed, freedoms lost. Transgender girls, a battleground state, Trump’s pressure tactics, fueled by hate.
Tariffs and trade wars, a global unrest, economic coercion, a dangerous test. Romania’s far-right, a fascist echo, hate resurrected, a specter of woe.
Katie Porter’s ambition, a governor’s race, Trump’s shadow lingers, a political chase. Market volatility, a turbulent ride, investors’ anxieties, nowhere to hide.
Mel Gibson’s gun rights, a controversial plea, DOJ official fired, a battle for decree. Navy’s shipbuilding, a collaborative quest, economic handouts, a questionable test.
NASA’s space missions, a cosmic pursuit, while earthly problems remain unresolved, acute. Air quality plummets, a world choked by fumes, environmental agencies, facing impending dooms.
Birthright citizenship, a legal fight, Trump’s executive order, challenged by right. Blood moon eclipse, a celestial display, while earthly dramas unfold, day by day.
NFL free agency, winners and losers declared, contracts and trades, fortunes shared. Tesla’s stock falters, Musk’s empire strained, a billionaire’s gamble, a future unchained.
SpaceX’s mission, astronauts’ return, political tensions, lessons to learn. White House car lot, a Tesla display, Trump’s shilling for Musk, a controversial way.
Measles outbreaks, a public health threat, immune amnesia, a danger we’ve met. NFL draft picks, compensatory gains, teams strategize, amidst shifting terrains.
European markets, a volatile mix, trade war anxieties, economic tricks. RFK Jr.’s crusade, artificial dyes, food industry challenged, a battle that arises.
Cowboys’ free agency, signings and deals, team roster changes, the future reveals. Junior Bridgeman, a legend departs, basketball and business, leaving broken hearts.
Southwest Airlines, baggage fees imposed, customer loyalty tested, a perk decomposed. Tiger Woods injured, a career in doubt, Achilles tendon ruptured, a painful shout.
Recession’s shadow, a looming threat, economic indicators, a future we’ve yet to get. Manchester United’s stadium, a grand design, financial risks, a future to define.
Falcons sign Floyd, a defensive gain, team roster bolstered, easing the strain. Eagles visit White House, a Super Bowl cheer, Trump’s invitation accepted, dispelling all fear.
Daniel Jones to Colts, a quarterback’s quest, competition ignited, putting skills to the test. Musk’s X outage, a cyberattack’s sting, digital vulnerabilities, the chaos they bring.
Vikings add Allen, strengthening the line, defensive prowess, a strategy to refine. Housing affordability, a crisis untold, shortages and struggles, stories unfold.
Big Ten basketball, honors bestowed, players and coaches, achievements explode. OpenAI’s new tools, developers embrace, AI’s evolution, at an accelerating pace.
Ovechkin’s goal chase, a hockey legend’s dream, records and milestones, a captivating theme. Trump’s tariffs take hold, a nation’s divide, economic consequences, a turbulent tide.
A cacophony of crises, a world in disarray, truth fractured, hope fading away. The headlines scream on, a relentless barrage, a fragmented reality, on history’s stage. *****
empire builds walls of steel and numbers tariffs like razor wire between nations workers become statistics politicians play chess with economies nobody wins, everybody pays the machine keeps grinding soft flesh against cold metal we are the footnotes in someone else’s ledger *****
Steel screams in the furnace of policy,
molten tariffs poured into the mold of retaliation.
Europe bites back, teeth forged in countermeasures,
while America sharpens its tongue on the edge of trade.
The sky fractures—
planes collide, midair whispers of disaster,
while trains derail into the mouths of insurgents.
A nation’s breath catches in the throat of a shutdown,
lungs constricted by the iron grip of budgetary war.
A boy vanishes into the river’s cold memory,
while veterans fade into the bureaucratic abyss.
The earth shakes beneath the weight of elections,
Greenland shivers in the shadow of a name.
Markets convulse,
Tesla stumbles,
Musk laughs into the void of his own making.
The Pope exhales,
his breath a fragile thing against the tide of time.
Blood moons rise over burning documents,
over shattered treaties, over silent screams.
The world turns, headlines churn,
and still, the ink bleeds.
*****
Front Page Bleed
The screen flickers, a cataract of crises, pixels clotting into headlines, each a fresh incision.
Ukraine. Moscow. Drones like metallic locusts, swarming, stinging, leaving craters where homes pulsed with quiet evenings.
Two killed. Massive attack. Peace talks. The words, sanitized scalpels, slicing through the viscera of war.
And Trump, the perpetual orange sunspot, flaring, vowing, threatening. A one-man weather system of chaos.
Unseat. Shutdown. Hate. The lexicon of division, a virus replicating in the comment sections.
D.O.G.E., the acronym a growl, sniffing at our digital footprints, freedom of information, a bone gnawed clean.
Unprecedented power. Unusual secrecy. The ironies, sharp as shattered glass, reflecting a fractured democracy.
Greenland, a pawn in a geopolitical chess game, independence, a melting glacier, Trump, the invisible hand on the board.
Love triangle. Opposition party. US ties. The language of diplomacy, a thin veil over the raw hunger for resources.
Black Lives Matter, a mural scraped away, history, a palimpsest, erased, rewritten, but never truly gone.
Cannot erase. Shutdown looms. Aren’t sleeping. The ghosts of protest, lingering in the concrete, a silent scream in the city’s throat.
Duterte, the strongman, arrested, a legacy of blood, a war on drugs, the International Criminal Court, a distant thunder.
Crimes against humanity. Divisive legacy. The weight of justice, a slow, grinding mill, pulverizing the bones of the innocent.
Mahmoud Khalil, a green card, a deportation order, the Kafkaesque nightmare of bureaucracy, a life suspended in legal limbo.
Green card. Mayoral race. What to know. The questions, unanswered, hanging in the air, like the scent of tear gas after a protest.
COVID, five years a phantom limb, the world, a body still twitching, from the trauma, the loss, the lingering fear.
Pandemic. Health crisis. What’s next? The uncertainty, a virus of its own, mutating, adapting, always one step ahead.
Cargo ships colliding, a fiery ballet of destruction, jet fuel, a slick rainbow on the waves, the environment, a casualty of carelessness.
Environmental disaster. Out of the blue. The suddenness of catastrophe, a reminder of our fragile ecosystem.
Prison guards fired, a wildcat strike, the simmering rage of the underpaid, the system, a pressure cooker about to explode.
Illegal strike. Terminated. The strike is over. The language of authority, cold and unforgiving, a hammer blow to the hopes of the desperate.
Tariffs, a trade war, a game of chicken, Wisconsin factories, the collateral damage, the economy, a tightrope walker losing balance.
Wild West. Undercut. Slams. The rhetoric of conflict, escalating, a prelude to a deeper, more devastating crash.
Antisemitism, a poison seeping into campuses, colleges, battlegrounds of ideology, education, a weapon in the culture wars.
Penalties. Investigation. Discrimination. The words, loaded with history, with pain, a reminder of the darkness that never truly fades.
The Pope, his health, a global concern, faith, a fragile vessel in a turbulent world, prayers, whispered in a thousand languages.
Restful night. Guarded prognosis. Improvement. The language of hope, flickering like a candle, in the face of mortality, of uncertainty.
USAID, contracts canceled, Africa, the forgotten continent, aid, a lifeline severed by political whims.
Goats and Soda. Billions lost. Intimidate. The casual cruelty of power, the human cost, buried in the fine print.
Sudiksha Konanki, missing, a college student, a void in the universe, the Dominican Republic, a backdrop of fear.
Search. Didn’t drown. Interview. The fragments of information, pieced together, a desperate attempt to reconstruct a life.
Ontario, a threat, a tariff, electricity, a weapon in a trade dispute, Minnesota, caught in the crossfire.
Shut off. Surcharge. Retaliates. The language of escalation, of brinkmanship, a dangerous game with unpredictable consequences.
School bus overturned, children injured, a moment of chaos, a sudden swerve, the fragility of life, exposed in an instant.
Hospitalized. Seriously. Overturns. The stark reality of accidents, the thin line between safety and disaster.
Syria, a fragile peace, a new government, Kurdish forces, integrated, a tentative step, towards a future still shrouded in uncertainty.
Breakthrough deal. Landmark agreement. The language of diplomacy, masking the scars, of a decade of war, of displacement, of loss.
A four-year-old, a stolen ice cream, a call to the police, a moment of absurdity, a glimpse into the mundane dramas of everyday life.
He called the cops. A single, stark sentence, a microcosm of our over-reliance on authority.
Mel Gibson, gun rights, a fired DOJ official, the machinations of power, the whispers of influence, justice, a commodity traded in the shadows.
Restoration. Refusing. Axed. The language of betrayal, of corruption, a reminder of the rot beneath the surface.
Medical helicopter crash, lives lost, a tragedy in the sky, a sudden descent, the fragility of life, underscored once more.
Fatalities confirmed. Crew members. Dead. The blunt finality of death, a stark contrast to the vibrant lives extinguished.
Mark Carney, Canada’s new leader, a challenge, a tariff war, a global stage, the weight of expectation, heavy on his shoulders.
Take on Trump. Must answer. Succeed. The questions, hanging in the air, a test of leadership, of resilience, of vision.
Hiring freeze, universities, a shifting landscape, federal funding, a battleground of priorities, education, a casualty of political maneuvering.
Cutbacks. Shifting landscape. Freeze. The language of austerity, of uncertainty, a chilling effect on the pursuit of knowledge.
Menendez brothers, a resentencing hearing, a decades-old crime, a quest for freedom, justice, a complex equation of guilt and redemption.
Roadblock. Withdraw. Resentenced. The legal wrangling, the slow grind of the system, a reminder of the enduring power of the past.
Climate change, lawsuits frozen, billions of dollars, a battle for the future, the environment, a pawn in a political game.
Frozen funds. Escalate fight. Sues. The language of conflict, of obstruction, a betrayal of future generations.
Stock market, a plunge, a recession scare, Trump’s disruption, a volatile force, the economy, a fragile ecosystem on the brink.
Sell-off. Cold plunge. Rattled. The language of fear, of uncertainty, a reminder of the precariousness of prosperity.
Ukraine, a security force, Paris talks, deterrence, a key question, a global stage, the threat of war, looming large.
Wasn’t invited. Convene. Deterrence. The language of diplomacy, of power plays, a delicate dance on the edge of a precipice.
Elon Musk, Social Security, cuts, fraud, a billionaire’s pronouncements, a political agenda, the safety net, a target for ideological warfare.
Eliminate. Teases. Searching. The language of threat, of disruption, a challenge to the foundations of social welfare.
Wall Street, a tough question, a biting editorial, the economy, a rollercoaster of booms and busts, Trump, the unpredictable factor in the equation.
Needles. Wreck. Grip. The language of anxiety, of warning, a sense of impending doom.
A judge, a murder, a mistrial, a wife’s death, a courtroom drama, justice, elusive, inconclusive.
Mistrial. Shot. Accused. The language of violence, of accusation, a tragedy unfolding in the public eye.
Cybersecurity, funding halted, elections, vulnerable, the threat of interference, a shadow over democracy, the integrity of the vote, at stake.
Chopping block. Rattling. Concerned. The language of alarm, of vulnerability, a reminder of the fragility of our systems.
Romania, a presidential candidate barred, protests erupt, a far-right populist, a blocked election, democracy, under siege.
Chaos. Appeals. Blocked. The language of unrest, of suppression, a struggle for the soul of a nation.
S’mores, wildfires, a Long Island blaze, a moment of carelessness, a devastating consequence, the environment, vulnerable to human error.
Suspected cause. Backyard. Massive. The language of investigation, of blame, a reminder of the power of small actions.
EPA, grants canceled, environmental justice, workers reinstated, a workforce in turmoil, the protection of the vulnerable, a political football.
Reverses course. Dismantling. Turmoil. The language of instability, of conflict, a battle for the soul of environmental policy.
Conversion therapy, a Supreme Court challenge, a ban on a harmful practice, a free-speech debate, the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals, at stake.
Challenge. Banning. Free-speech. The language of legal battle, of ideological conflict, a struggle for the definition of human rights.
A plane crash, injuries, a retirement community, a sudden descent, a moment of terror, the fragility of life, once again exposed.
Crashes. Discharged. Private plane. The language of accident, of aftermath, a reminder of the unexpected dangers of flight.
Tesla, a stock plunge, a Trump endorsement, a billionaire’s struggles, a political alliance, the electric vehicle market, in turmoil.
Plunge. Struggling. Tumbles. The language of decline, of uncertainty, a reflection of the volatile nature of the market.
Officer-involved shooting, a motorcycle, a park, a deputy injured, a suspect wounded, violence, erupting in a public space.
Shootout. Seriously injured. Activated. The language of conflict, of injury, a reminder of the dangers faced by law enforcement.
Asylum app, self-deportation, a new function, immigration policy, a tool of control, the lives of migrants, hanging in the balance.
Overhauls. Self-deportation. Relaunches. The language of bureaucracy, of restriction, a reflection of the harsh realities of immigration.
China, tariffs, farmers, a trade war, retaliation, a global economic conflict, the livelihoods of producers, at stake.
Strikes back. Retaliatory. Worried. The language of conflict, of escalation, a reminder of the interconnectedness of the global economy.
Measles, an outbreak, vaccine skepticism, rural Texas, a public health crisis, the consequences of misinformation, unfolding.
Crumbling. Scrambles. Swayed. The language of vulnerability, of resistance, a reminder of the importance of public health.
Southwest Airlines, checked bags, a new fee, basic economy, a changing landscape, the cost of travel, increasing.
Slashes. Ends. Charge. The language of business, of profit, a reflection of the changing dynamics of the airline industry.
Climate change lawsuits, a Supreme Court rejection, red states, blue states, a legal battle, the future of the planet, at stake.
Rejects. Block. Rebukes. The language of legal conflict, of division, a reminder of the political obstacles to climate action.
NFL free agency, signings, trades, team grades, winners and losers, the business of football, in full swing.
Tracker. Deals. Fallout. The language of sports, of competition, a reflection of the constant churn of the league.
Lunar eclipse, a blood worm moon, a celestial event, a moment of wonder, the beauty of the universe, on display.
Total. Blood Moon. What to know. The language of astronomy, of observation, a reminder of the vastness of space.
Cyberattack, X, Elon Musk, outages, a digital battleground, the vulnerability of online platforms, exposed.
Massive. Dark Storm. Waves. The language of threat, of disruption, a reminder of the constant dangers of the digital world.
Gerrit Cole, Tommy John surgery, a baseball star, an injury, a season lost, the fragility of athletic careers, underscored.
Season-ending. Replace. Surgery. The language of
missiles rise over moscow
drones hum like angry wasps
empires crumble in silence
while bureaucrats shuffle papers
and cameras blinksomewhere a soldier checks his phone
history scrolls past like a ticker tape
we are all just witnesses now
*****
Headlines crack like brittle bones,
fractured syllables spill ink-blood rivers—
drones hum dirges over Moscow’s iron veins,
while Greenland shivers in the shadow of a name.
Tariffs gnash teeth, biting rusted factory floors,
while Capitol ghosts barter shutdowns for soundbites.
DOGE slithers through bureaucratic veins,
a digital specter haunting the archives of power.
S’mores ignite wildfires,
conversion therapy burns beneath court gavels,
and a child dials 911 for stolen ice cream—
the absurd and the apocalyptic hold hands,
dancing in the algorithm’s flickering glow.
Elon whispers to the void,
Tesla crumbles like a sandcastle in the tide,
while Trump buys electric dreams to resurrect a dying sun.
Markets convulse, Wall Street shudders,
and the moon bleeds worms into the night sky.
Somewhere, a helicopter falls from grace,
a judge’s gavel drowns in mistrial echoes,
and a student vanishes into Dominican dusk—
newsprint ghosts wail in pixelated agony,
while the world scrolls on, indifferent.
*****
Ticker Tape Tamper Tantrum
White noise bleeds red, a fractured feed: Carney crowned, Canada’s new creed. (Landslide, they scream, a hollow cheer, another puppet, fueled by fear.)
Ukraine’s intel, a pawn in play, Trump’s tariffs, a ricochet. “Just about” lifted, the whispers lie, while bodies pile, beneath a jaundiced sky.
China’s harvest, a bitter yield, agri-vengeance, a battlefield. Fentanyl’s ebb, a fleeting grace, drowning sorrows, a different race.
Columbia’s cries, a green card’s plea, ICE’s grip, on liberty. Malibu quakes, a fault line’s groan, while empires crumble, on a borrowed throne.
Recession’s shadow, a looming threat, postal workers, in freedom’s debt. Syria’s screams, a silenced choir, German skies, choked by strike fire.
North Korea’s rockets, a fiery dance, “Bloody Sunday,” a backward glance. Romania’s chaos, a far-right blight, Gaza’s darkness, devoid of light.
Greenland’s vote, a melting plea, DOGE’s nurse, a truth we see. Shutdown looms, a fiscal shroud, Iran’s defiance, spoken aloud.
Vance’s daughter, a shield of shame, Starlink’s battle, a twisted game. Sheinbaum’s triumph, a tariff’s pause, Hamas’ offer, with hidden claws.
NOAA’s purge, a climate’s cost, Secret Service, innocence lost. Kursk’s advance, a brutal gain, Atlanta’s grief, a lingering stain.
Noem’s vendetta, a leak’s despair, Long Island burns, a poisoned air. Veterans’ cuts, a broken vow, Pope’s frail prayer, a furrowed brow.
Firing squads, a morbid choice, Florida’s horror, a silenced voice. Albany’s deal, a hollow pact, market’s plunge, a brutal act.
Metcalf’s trade, a gridiron’s shift, Blood Worm Moon, a cosmic rift. Measles’ return, a whispered dread, Mexico’s rally, words unsaid.
Wrestling’s crown, a Penn State roar, Bitcoin’s gamble, a digital sore. Allen’s millions, a quarterback’s prize, NASCAR’s speed, beneath judging eyes.
UAW’s stance, a tariff’s friend, Garrett’s wealth, that knows no end. Ovechkin’s chase, a legend’s quest, Fugard’s farewell, put to the test.
Tar Heel’s defeat, a hunter’s plight. Viking’s gold. A prince’s early night. Landry’s leap, a Patriot’s gain, Big 12’s brackets, a driving rain.
Loucks’ return, a Seminole’s call, “Mickey 17,” destined to fall. Allred’s tactics, a double bind. The scroll continues. Humanity, unkind. The feed keeps churning. The truth, confined. *****
Headlines cascade like broken glass
Mark Carney rises where Trudeau fell
Tariffs dance, economies tremble
Borders shift beneath silent feet
Something is changing
Not the faces
But the machine
Grinding slower
But never stopping
*****
Headlines fracture, splintered glass in the mouth of the morning,
Carney crowned in crimson landslides, a nation exhales—
but the breath is borrowed, the lungs are leased.
Trump’s tariffs gnaw at the marrow of markets,
a recession hums beneath the floorboards,
while missiles arc like punctuation marks
in a sentence no one dares to finish.
Fentanyl fades, but ghosts still linger,
whispering in alleyways where the wind forgets its name.
A student vanishes into Dominican tides,
the sea swallows secrets whole.
ICE drags protest from pavement to silence,
while Gaza flickers in the dark,
a desalination plant gasping for power,
a people parched on the edge of history’s tongue.
Ovechkin chases ghosts on ice,
Garrett stacks millions like sandbags against time,
and Greenland votes beneath a shadow too large to name.
The moon bleeds red over Wall Street’s trembling hands,
while steel birds intercept whispers above Mar-a-Lago.
A teacher resurfaces from Georgia’s black water,
his story unfinished, his echoes unresolved.
The world spins, headlines churn—
a storm of ink and static,
a chorus of sirens in a language we refuse to learn.
*****
Headlines (Fractured Transmission)
The ticker tape bleeds a binary prayer: Approve/Disapprove. Consume/Despair.
Trump ( ) Tariff ( ) Chaos ( ) insert coin for economic theory The market a bulimic god, gorging, purging, on whispers of strong borders, strategic reserves.
SpaceX (boom) Starship (implode) Florida (tremble) Another phallic symbol, misfired ambition, scattering debris across the collective dreamscape.
Dismantle. Abolish. The words like blunt instruments, smashing the fragile architecture of learning, leaving only the rubble of alternative facts.
Firing squad. A phrase from a sepia-toned nightmare, re-emerging, slick with the oil of law and order. South Carolina, a stage for state-sanctioned murder.
Ukraine ( ) US ( ) Talks ( ) The chessboard of geopolitics, pawns sacrificed, while the kings negotiate acceptable losses.
Measles. A ghost from the eradicated past, resurrected by the anti-vaxxer gospel, a plague of willful ignorance.
Eagles hatch. A flicker of hope, quickly drowned by the deluge of Syria (bleed) Assad (cling) Bitcoin (plunge) Moon (sideways).
Women’s Day. A hashtag, a hollow celebration, while the patriarchy tightens its grip, disguised as progress, empowerment.
Adams ( ) Yoon ( ) Musk ( ) The names blur, interchangeable puppets, dancing to the tune of power, corruption, lies.
Data (stolen) Secrets (sold) China ( ) The new Cold War, fought in the digital trenches, where privacy is a quaint, outdated concept.
Daylight Saving. A ritual of temporal manipulation, a collective delusion of control, while the planet spins, indifferent to our clocks.
UFC ( ) Columbia River ( ) WWII Bomb ( ) A cacophony of violence, mystery, and echoes, a fractured mirror reflecting our fragmented selves.
Sanctions ( ) Ceasefire ( ) Extension ( ) The language of diplomacy, a smokescreen for self-interest, while the bodies pile up, uncounted, unnamed.
Pronouns. The new battleground of identity, a war of words waged on the bodies of the marginalized, while the powerful celebrate freedom of speech.
Market (crash) Boycott (fail) Wind (howl) The cycle repeats, a relentless churn of consumption, protest, and the inevitable return to apathy.
Frozen Four. Seven Veils. Cosmic Rewind. Distractions, diversions, escapes from the abyss, while the real drama unfolds, unscripted, unedited.
Hackman (gone) Wife (gone) Hantavirus ( ) The fragility of life, a stark reminder, amidst the relentless barrage of manufactured outrage.
Travel Ban ( ) Biologist (fired) The walls close in, the borders harden, while the planet burns, and we argue about pronouns.
Hendrickson ( ) Starmer ( ) S&P 500 ( ) The endless scroll, the infinite feed, a digital stream of consciousness, devoid of meaning.
Clark ( ) Sanders ( ) Bloomberg ( ) The names of the celebrated, the condemned, the forgotten, all equalized in the relentless flow of information.
Strade Bianche ( ) Khartoum ( ) Five-Star ( ) The world shrinks, the connections fray, leaving only fragments, shards of a broken narrative.
Lilly ( ) Capcom ( ) Severance ( ) The corporate logos, the entertainment distractions, a thin veneer over the underlying unease.
Braves ( ) Elk ( ) Genes ( ) The search for meaning, for connection, for escape, in a world saturated with noise, and devoid of silence.
The headlines scream. The void answers. We are all just data points, lost in the fractured transmission. *****
empire crumbles in real time
headlines dance like fever dreams
trump speaks, congress listens
machines launch, then explode
workers fired for pronouns
satellites watch everything
we are the glitch in the system
and the system knows it
*****
Headlines fracture, scatter like startled birds,
Trumpets blare tariffs, tongues twist in trade wars,
Musk’s rockets kiss the sky, then crumble,
A man stands before a squad of bullets, history rewinds.
Eagles hatch under pixelated eyes,
Ukraine whispers in satellite silence,
Bitcoin hoards in vaults of uncertainty,
A mayor’s shadow stretches long in courtrooms.
The river exhales a car, decades drowned,
Bombs sleep beneath Parisian rails,
Markets convulse in algorithmic seizures,
Boycotts bloom like defiant weeds.
Pronouns erased, bodies erased,
Hands raised in stadiums, fists clenched in streets,
The moon receives another ghost,
And somewhere, a poet drowns in the noise.
*****
Ticker Tape Apocalypse
CNBC screams Nasdaq bleeds correction. Trump, the tariff-twitching phantom, pauses, unpauses, a spasmodic god of market chaos. Mexico, Canada, caught in the crossfire of his whim.
The Pope, a fragile metronome, ticks between prayer and pathology. Gradual, slight improvement. (Is grace quantifiable?)
Zelenskyy, a ghost in the machine of war, begs for defense, for dialogue, while Europe re-arms, a rusty beast awakened by the scent of blood.
China scolds, two-faced America, a pot calling the kettle a shattered mirror. Foreign aid, a pawn in the Supreme Court’s game, Justice Barrett, the fulcrum of fate.
Daylight Saving Time, a manufactured theft, stealing sleep, offering free food as a pathetic consolation prize. Spring forward, they say, into what abyss?
Shutdown or surrender? The Senate’s dilemma, a binary choice in a fractal world. Germany’s debt, a bazooka aimed at the future, while South Korea bombs its own citizens, a tragic farce.
Federal workers, fired in digital droves, Elon Musk, the scapegoat, the DOGE-devourer, claiming innocence in the face of mass unemployment. DOGE cuts. A new euphemism for oblivion.
Firing squads in South Carolina, a medieval spectacle, while Ukraine’s satellite eyes are blinded by American greed. Syria, a charnel house of forgotten rebellions, Adnan Syed, a ghost released from the prison of narrative.
Measles, a resurrected plague, thriving on ignorance and fear. Job numbers, a flickering illusion, 151,000 jobs added, while the economy unravels.
Trump hides something in Ukraine, a secret whispered in the Kremlin’s ear. Gene Hackman, dead, a footnote to hantavirus, while lunar landings stumble, sideways, again.
Democrats, lost in a wilderness of resistance, memes and mockery their only weapons. An Olympian drug lord, a $10 million bounty, Bitcoin reserves, a digital pyramid scheme.
Idaho murders, a text message scream, freaking out, echoing in the void of a shattered home. South Korea’s president, freed from detention, a puppet dancing on the strings of power.
India’s tariffs, very high, Trump complains, a prelude to more economic warfare. Eric Adams, a mayor dodging corruption charges, while national parks are gutted, their guardians exiled.
Orbán, the Hungarian autocrat, blocking aid to Ukraine, a pawn in Putin’s game. Law firms, targeted for aiding Trump’s enemies, Walgreens, a fallen giant, devoured by private equity.
Farmers, caught in the crosshairs of trade wars, their loyalty tested by economic ruin. Classified data, sold to China, a betrayal whispered in the digital wind.
Black Lives Matter Plaza, erased, a symbol of surrender to white supremacy. Slender Man’s victim, released, a ghost in the machine, while Trump lies about Social Security, a broken promise.
UFC, a spectacle of violence, a distraction from the crumbling world. Michigan State, a fleeting victory, while Social Security is branded a Ponzi scheme.
Netanyahu, a shadow over October 7th, a tragedy foretold, a warning ignored. Pilots flirting with influencers, a trivial pursuit in the face of global collapse.
Lesotho, a nation mocked, a symbol of ignorance, while Ovechkin chases Gretzky’s ghost. Curry’s magic, a fleeting moment of beauty, in a world drowning in despair.
DEI, a battleground of corporate culture, while European stocks surge, a false dawn. Lakers and Knicks, a clash of titans, a distraction from the unraveling fabric of reality.
AOC, mocked for her digital resistance, while a WWII bomb disrupts Paris, a ghost of the past. Transgender youth, targeted by hate, while a missing woman is found in a suitcase, a tragic end.
Russia’s missiles, a rain of fire, while Seahawks trade Metcalf, a pawn in the game. Hoaxes and diversions, a constant stream of noise, while DOGE staffers feast on taxpayer dollars.
Mickey 17, a clone’s lament, a reflection of our own fractured identities. Trump’s sanctions, a weapon of mass confusion, while Pamela Bach, a forgotten star, fades away.
Joey Bosa, a commodity, traded and bartered, while Brock Nelson finds a new home in the Avalanche. Zelenskyy’s truce, a desperate plea, while CNN is stunned by DOGE’s popularity.
The S&P 500, a rollercoaster of fear, while RFK Jr. peddles snake oil for measles, a symptom of a world losing its mind. The headlines scream, a cacophony of chaos, a ticker tape apocalypse, unspooling in real time. *****
empire crumbles in slow motion
tariffs dance like falling dominoes
workers vanish into digital mist
screens flicker with promises of stability
nobody notices the cracks spreading
beneath our feetwe are already ghosts
waiting to be remembered
*****
Headlines crack like brittle bones,
tariffs tangle in a lover’s quarrel,
a Pope exhales slow prayers through hospital glass,
while Europe sharpens its teeth on the edge of war.
Trump’s shadow stretches across the market,
a hand of tariffs, a fist of sanctions,
China snarls, Russia strikes,
the world spins dizzy on the axis of power.
A moonshot lands sideways,
a fighter jet bombs its own people,
a missing woman folds into a suitcase,
history loops like a snake eating its own tail.
Measles bloom like forgotten ghosts,
a snowboarder turns kingpin fugitive,
Elon Musk shrugs beneath congressional glare,
and the stock market wails in algorithmic agony.
Somewhere beneath the noise,
a mother tucks her child into bed,
a poet scribbles in the margins of collapse,
and the world—
for one breath—
pauses.
*****
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Kryvyi Rih (Screaming Iron)
Ballistic lullaby. Hometown, un-homed. A president’s geography, re-written in shrapnel.
(No pause)
The market stalls, shattered. Blood oranges, unpriced. Futures traded: recession/expansion, a binary code for breathing.
(No pause)
Gaza, a ghost limb, throbbing. Truce, a word hollowed out, a begging bowl filled with threats.
Greenland melts. Five ways to own it. (One way or the other)
The fired, the rehired, the betrayed. CDC emails: Read this immediately. (A virus of uncertainty.)
D.O.G.E. dissected, budgets flayed, Musk whispers in closed rooms. Cuts cemented.
Aid, a legal abstraction. Contractors circle, vultures with briefcases.
(No pause)
Whiteout. Thunder. The map, a lie. We are all screaming iron, waiting. *****
D[ream] of borders dissolving │in│ missile ∭trajectories∭ where hometown becomes battlefield
echoes ⇄ fragments of aid │frozen│ like winter’s breath suspended
{Trump} whispers across ∞ landscapes where veterans feel betrayed
time ≈ memory ≠ truth spinning through recursive wounds
no pause in the bleeding of nations *****
missiles scream lullabies into the bones of Kryvyi Rih,
a steel-toothed requiem gnawing at the ribs of history.
Zelenskyy does not sleep—how could he?—
when the sky is a mouth swallowing his name.
Wall Street waltzes with ghosts of recessions past,
dollar bills fluttering like dead leaves in a storm,
while traders sip fear from crystal glasses,
betting on collapse like it’s just another Tuesday.
Trump’s shadow stretches across the desert,
his voice a rusted hinge creaking threats into the wind.
Hamas does not blink. Hostages are currency,
but peace is a debt no one wants to pay.
Greenland shivers beneath the weight of ambition,
ice cracking like old promises,
while America sharpens its teeth on frozen dreams,
whispering “one way or another” into the void.
Veterans fold their pink slips into paper planes,
launch them toward a sky that no longer salutes them.
Betrayal tastes like campaign slogans turned to ash,
like ballots burning in the hands of the forgotten.
And somewhere, Musk laughs in a room without windows,
DOGE bleeding out on the Senate floor,
while algorithms carve policy into stone,
and the future is just another closed-door meeting.
*****
Address to the Golden Dome (Fractured Anthem)
(A vivisection of the news cycle, 2025-03-05)
The screen bleeds red, white, fractured blue. A name, a shout, a claim of “back.” (Back where? The abyss stares, unblinking.)
I. Combative. (Adjective, weaponized.) The fist, a noun. The speech, a threat. Voters, parsed like entrails, their cheers a hollow echo in the dome.
II. Lukashenko whispers, Zelenskyy holds. (The pawns move, even as the kings deny.) Europe, a ghost on the edge of war, a continent holding its breath, a fractured lung.
III. Slotkin, the “center.” (A mirage, shimmering.) Bipartisan values. (Empty words, polished smooth.) Michigan, a battleground of fading hope, where compromise is a forgotten dialect.
IV. Hackman, gone. A dog, misnamed. (The small confusions of a larger death.) Mysteries swirl, like dust motes in the void, a quiet elegy for what we cannot grasp.
V. Green, removed. (The voice, suppressed.) A shout, a truth, a body hauled away. The chamber, cleansed. The silence, deafening. Democracy, a performance, meticulously staged.
VI. Debt, a leviathan. Unconventional ideas. (The market trembles, a fragile, wired bird.) The numbers rise, a tide of red ink, drowning the future in a sea of speculation.
VII. Border. Tax. Dome. (Requests, demands.) A golden cage, built on shifting sand. The vision, familiar. The cracks, widening. A nation fractured, yearning for a wholeness it cannot name.
VIII. Dolphin, airborne. (A breach of the expected.) Nine hundred pounds of flesh, a sudden impact. The calm, shattered. The fishermen, stunned. Reality, a thing that can fall from the sky.
IX. Storms rage. Fires burn. Blizzards blind. (The earth, in protest, a wounded beast.) Two dead. Countless displaced. The warnings, unheeded. The reckoning, at hand.
X. Greenland wakes. A message. Self-determination. (The irony, a bitter pill to swallow.) An island, claimed. A people, addressed. Empire expands, even as it crumbles from within.
The screen flickers. The cycle repeats. America. (A question, not an answer.) Back. (To the precipice, and beyond.) The dome, a gilded skull, grinning in the dark. *****
D[ream] of ⟨power⟩ lingers in {twilight} at ∭edge∭ of control
w o r d s → fracture like │political│ boundaries bleeding into silence
A m e r i c a ≈ myth ≠ reality spinning through ∞ contested spaces ∞
where v o i c e s interrupt the narrative
┌───────────────┐ │power trembles │ │between whispers│ │and thunder │ └───────────────┘ endlessly becoming *****
[poem]
America back? No, America forward—
a golden dome, a debt unmoored,
a congress split like fractured glass,
a dolphin falls, the waters crash.
Al Green shouts, the chamber shakes,
a storm ignites, the skyline breaks.
Gene Hackman’s ghost walks silent halls,
his dog misnamed, the mystery calls.
Greenland wakes to whispered claims,
a flag unfurls in Arctic flames.
Lukashenko warns, the echoes bend,
Zelenskyy stands where lines extend.
Markets wrestle, numbers scream,
the ledger bends in fevered dream.
A nation tilts, a tempest sways—
America back? No, lost in haze.
(March 4, 2025)
Kremlin applause, a choked Ukrainian lung. Steel tariffs bloom, a poisoned, rust-red spring. Farmers warned: sell inside, the outside’s wrung. (A scorpion sleeps in a suitcase wing.)
Bräutigamseiche whispers, old wood, new lies, while Jay-Z’s lawyers sharpen legal knives. Dolly’s silence, a husband’s closed eyes. (Security clearances, unbriefed, where secrets thrive.)
SpaceX falters. A rocket’s held breath. The countdown stalls, a prelude to what death? Not of the body, but the soul, beneath the weight of headlines, each a poisoned wreath.
Fractured syntax, a mirror to the day. No comfort here. No easy, clean-swept way. Just shattered fragments, truth in disarray. The world spins on. We have no words to say. Only the echo of applause, far, far away. *****
trade winds whisper ⇄ tariff lines trump’s second breath echoes through │global│ veins
Ukraine ∭ paused Kremlin ≈ pleased borders dissolve into ∞ silence
china’s farm goods weighted with invisible tensions → economic dance ←
scorpions hide between luggage and memory’s uncertain borders
timber over tinder love grows where algorithms cannot reach
clearances stripped like skin from institutional bone
starship waits 40 seconds from possibility suspended *****
Steel jaws of empire gnash,
pause-click, aid withheld—
a chessboard smeared in oil and ash,
Kremlin whispers, deals are felled.
Tariffs bloom like iron thorns,
fields of wheat now fields of rust,
farmers kneel where trade was born,
hands in soil, dreams in dust.
Markets tremble, numbers wail,
algorithms choke on fear,
currencies like paper sails,
adrift in tides unclear.
A scorpion stings in baggage claim,
venom drips through customs halls,
a silent omen, whispered name,
etched in poisoned protocol.
Timber over Tinder—roots entwine,
lovers carve their names in bark,
while satellites in corporate spines
blink cold against the dark.
Jay-Z sues the ghosts of time,
truth a blade both sharp and blurred,
Dolly’s love song fades to chimes,
Jolene hums a final word.
Fired minds with secrets deep,
cast aside without a trace,
whispers lost where shadows creep,
erased from history’s embrace.
Starship halts at forty ticks,
a breath before the cosmic leap,
human hands on ancient bricks,
building towers none will keep.
The world rewinds, the world repeats,
a loop of power, pain, and play—
steel jaws gnash, the cycle beats,
tomorrow is just yesterday.
*****
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.
*****
null
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null
(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]
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(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.
*****