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