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08 May 2024
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a clandestine operation


they say the numbers look good
so off they go

shipped in the middle of the night

when the old numbers go out
new ones come in
and with a little tweaking
or some massaging
or altogether reworked
they too will look good
and off they go

shipped in the middle of the night

sometimes the numbers don’t work out
the way they should
and the outcome manifests itself
into minor or major accidents
an occasional total death & destruction

and when the latter is the case
the number crunchers will be handcuffed
and taken away
each one replaced by something shiny & new


may two thousand twenty-four
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29 Feb 2024

deprogrammed


as time passes the loss remains
though shapes & sounds continue to change

what you hear from the webspinners
is exactly what you get
not fact or fiction or partial truths
but rather an amalgamation of sorts

like a kid in a bowling alley
you really don’t know what goes on
behind the scenes
and when you start asking around
nobody else seems to know either

they say the only evidence the police found
was a skeleton key
& a letter from a former lover
saying she was happy life was boring again
now that the conspiracy has passed





february two thousand twenty-four
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16 Jan 2024

the misinformants


Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

the information age
hasn’t enlightened the collective mind
having changed little what transpires
on a spinning silver-blue jewel

birds & bees carry on with their
multitude of purposes
actors performing on stage &
the silver screen
wild horses yet incapable
of dragging mick jagger away

rather it may be accelerating
the spread of hatred & contempt
fueled by talking fools
who feed the masses their very own
version of fire & brimstone





january two thousand twenty-four
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18 Jun 2022
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a ledger of lies


the world has always been a lie
and if you don’t know that as a fact
you’re living an imaginary life

if you follow the money you’ll find the lies
whether in ukraine or tehran
cairo or athens or amsterdam
the korean peninsula or washington dc

gold is still the real deal
but printed money is another lie
fake proceeds pumped into the stock market
simply because it gets high on bloatedness
and loves to implode

the lies are in the grocery stores
in parking lots
pizza places & ballparks
car dealerships & gas stations

the lies are in the air like electricity
almost always for sale
sometimes on the open market
other times in the dark web





june two thousand twenty-two
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