she sat at the bar holding her
crystal tumbler in one hand resting it on a teal napkin on the cool zinc
absently she fingered the
icecubes in her Rusty Nail a double(beyond her -- she ticked off the bartender by
asking for a daesh(joke) of Angotura I dont use bitters in Nails he said)(it
seemed to her guys always took whatever opportunity they could to languish in
her presence they agreed or disagreed with her(trying to stand out in her head
by hook or by crook) but she Aw she wasnt having it it wasnt keen or polite
when anyone tried to mire or rob her of her free time she said Well thats how I drink it . . . Please)(and
this unnecessary shit after contending with a pharmacist who tried to lecture
her on her birth control pills he had
religious objections to it Christ she
thought then told him she hadnt religious objections to his prostate examinations
though with some unfounded confidence she also believed his physicians job was
twofold seemingly he also shoved things
up his ass that werent his concern)
absently she brought her indexfinger out of her drink and noisily sucked
the liquor off it she sucked loudly
trying to deafen herself from hearing the FOX broadcast(why did FOX
play incessantly either at the bar at the gym playing in office lobbies she
had to go through to contend with business clients FOX was so much so that she nearly
welcomed relished elevator muzak)
the lout bellowed Fight fire with fire to an enthused audience he irritated her
the crowd responded heaved and spastic they irritated her
she didnt really but she
wished his hair would go up in flames and maybe she also wished the flames
would engulf his braindead cheerers too
she frightened herself when she had
thoughts like that frightened herself because her patience the safety valve
keeping her mouth shut her thoughts to herself was eroding
more than a couple of times recently
her boyfriend had to physically extract her remove her from a bar when at last
she could no longer hold her tongue and barked at the flatscreen no one in particular
but no-ones always paid attention when they werent being paid attention to
under her breath she muttered
Drumpf Fight fire with fire Why did he
always see things from the perspective of peering from out of a safe place onto the
world as a turtle might from the confine of his asshole
he says We have to be so strong We
have to fight so viciously and violently because were dealing with violent
people vicious people
We have laws to uphold we have
laws they dont have laws
Their laws say you can do
anything you want to them
The more vicious you are the
better
So we cant do waterboarding --
which may not be the nicest thing -- but its peanuts compared to many
alternatives So we cant do waterboarding but they can do chopping off heads
drowning people in steel cages They can do whatever they want to do
And they eat dinner like us and
can you imagine them sitting around the table or wherever theyre eating their
dinner talking about the Americans dont do waterboarding and yet we chop off
heads
They probably think were weak were
stupid we dont know what were doing we have no leadership
You know
you have to fight fire with
fire
and the audience envelopes his
words with a smattering of applause then begins to chant U S A!
U S A! U S A!
U S A!
shes sure off screen theres a
Drumpf prompter or plant among the crowd who first applauded who first chanted U S
A! U S A! of course the lemmings would follow
she thinks to herself as she
melts her icecubes clutching her tumbler in her hot hands He thinks Daesh or ISIS or ISIL sits
down like an American family at home show me that family and them sitting
around their diningroom table their kitchen table like Americans did when the
US was great -- Make America(in the 50s) Great Again! – before the Civil
Rights Voting Act – when drunken Joe pointed fingers spewed accusations – when
Jim Crow haunted the country – when there were segregated schools and
bathrooms and waterfountains – Move it lady! To the back of the bus! And she
didnt And later Rosa Parks said I have
learned over the years that when ones mind is made up this diminishes fear;
knowing what must be done does away with fear
she
took a healthy pull at her drink
she felt
the thin vapors of mild inebriation splishsplash her brain its surface spit-polished
and glazed
he
said They probably think were weak
No
she thought Thats what youre pedaling
You sell insults
They
probably think were stupid
No You think were stupid
They
probably think we dont know what were doing How feckless our leadership is
No Thats you braying factless assertions
The chopping off of heads
And the chopping off of heads she remembered the US military the Pentagon the CIA referencing their desire to decapitate Daeshs leadership
They
use knives
We
use hi-tech drones
We
call them brutal while we sanitise our brutality white war machines silent
thousands and thousands of feet overhead unleashing terrible missiles that not
only kill and everyone we kill is a combatant has to be a combatant in War
theres no such thing as a civilian if Americans died in America theyre
combatants too combatants because its our tax money that buys our armament and pays
our soldiers who do our bidding we
sanitise our brutality we vaporise people and if they arent vaporized and arent so
sanitised we leave them lay like chunk tuna so their people can guess whose
body parts are whose
she
killed her buzz
Barkeep Another please
he
heard her voice he didnt waste time trying to make eyecontact he
replaced her empty glass and damp napkin with a fresh glass and a fresh teal
napkin(nice touch)
she
stirred her full drink with her finger and quietly sucked the liquor from it
there
was a last dribble in her mind she had to get out so she could enjoy her
drink
the
speech was over and apparently the House didnt want to hear the commentators
tell them again what they had already heard
Vicious
How
bout IEDs Improvised Explosive
Devises Taken off the roadsides now worn
as suicide vests
We
taught them how to build IEDs
Its Evoluted
Isnt
a drone an opulent-to-the-Nth-degree IED
No
more politics
No
more HEEHAWs HEEHAWs she
had heard enough He Heehaws for the day
she
turned on her stool and dismounted it she
slung her purse over her shoulder making sure it hung straight down less
conspicuous she didnt want to draw any
attention(which she always did without trying) she picked up her drink and
walked to a small cocktail table near an exotic fish tank placed her drink down
her purse on the table and gathered the second chair up and carried it off set
it down and returned and built an invisible visible wall called Leave Me the
Fuck Alone Too many insults today Too many men thinking they know whats
best
Too many men with their heads up
their ass
1655, Day-between-Two-Ts, 29
6.16
1053, Thursday, 30 6. 16
