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Who's Been Swarmed? Have You Been Swarmed?

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I.

Ever since the rogue Joseph Kony was chased down

by an army of 'corpse evangelist' kids, high

on the smoky notion of an eye for an eye

once removed -- American kids wearing the frown

of cancellation, not caring that Joe was Black,

the corn kids chased the mad bugger in his own 'hood,

exceptional little shits out to do some Good

(online) from the dens of middle class Hackensack --

Justice just is, Justine, they lisped, the Marqui's own,

thinking jihadists had 9/11 coming

and now that we've bombed them back to Hell they're bumming.

Yes, ever since, but, when they got there, K was gone.

Well, the kerfuffle brought GI boots to the ground.

The US child army faded without a sound.

Scene from Slap Shot (1977)

II. (a)

Ever since Hillary, who won the election,

had wicked Assange gundowned for character flaws,

('Can't we just drone him,' she laughed and laughed, her Che tee

replaced with a surprised expression Gadaffi

and then Julian's, then Putin's, then "some in-laws)

she's pleased the corpo right and brought an erection.

(Remember her enforcer days with hockey's Chiefs --

rolling goalies, cross-checking, penalty box glee?)

Ever since the DNC was "hacked" by our spooks --

Duane Clarridge types who like to do things off the books --

we long again to beat the Russians at hockey,

and the Chinese, with whom they are as thick as thieves.

The Axis is looking to usurp world order.

So we invited them over Ukraine's border.

(b)

We invited them in for their own Vietnam;

our Database, led by bin Laden, drove them back,

and 20 years and 8 trill lost later, more war.

Then, we spooked them in Ukraine and they took the lure:

Yoohoo, NATO's coming. (laughs) Oh, it's all good craic.

Chance to make and waste more money, and eat more spam.

MeSMerized by MAGA doings and sex scandals

at CNN, where they show legs under tables,

viewers waiting for some Sharon Stone, I guess,

we don't get the news we need to sort out the Mess.

Instead, we get "conspiracy theory" labels.

The pumps don't work 'cause the vandals took the handles.

J's been sent to his room at Belmarsh for a time out.

From the penalty box Hillary gawks a shout.

Scene from The Dissident (2020)

III.

We all know that MBS had Khoshoggi killed --

discombobulated -- Erdogan watched the tape

the swarming cracking him up: one more journo down:

a regular chucklefestival for the Crown.

But then other mischief began to take some shape

and not as many spooky onlookers were thrilled.

MBS had a falling out with Jeff Bezos,

sent his flies to swarm the fulfillment center schlong,

and used Pegasus to hack his phone and taunt him,

like some douchebag stalker on the prowl for fresh quim.

Jeff, boldly bald with pink German helmet, strong,

knowing the IC has his back, women his nose.

Jeff saw an earth below all "fragile" and hoary

on his way out of town to Alpha Centauri.


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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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