--   the current AUTHORITY

                                                                     he was confident authority wasnt capitalized

though very likely the authority might prefer it were

and that the people who read  current authority

heard it reported or saw it on their computer television or cellphone screens would 

submit

perhaps bow deeply touching their foreheads to the ground as some religious devotees 

do

or prostrate themselves collectively

frankly

those were the kind of thoughts that traipsed around in his head whenever authority 

was pronounced

decided

                       this reigning new authority  unconfirmed by free independent forces

lacked rigid verification  and exhibited no proof beyond what it showed or said

the authority should be advised to remember that the evocation of it as “the current 

authority” infers  in time  there will be different authorities

and how they are fashioned is anyones guess

 

as easily as one can count “one, two, three . . .” there follows “four, five, six . . .” and on 

and on

the current authority is military (he could think of few authorities more rigid)

it is biased  employs extreme prejudice

it tells us only what it wants

it is not compelled

it advises that it cannot reveal specific elements or actions because we are safer 

not knowing what threats are imminent

Fearmongering

the current authority

according to officials

in theatre CENTCOM

the Pentagon

                       

all talking heads

enabled because they can imprison its contract players  those actors at its game of chess

if they betrayed either the theses or strategies put in place  contended  by their 

superiors

it is not called the CHAIN of Command for nothing

Think dog

Think kennels

Think fetch

     

                                                         he wondered how the National Amnesia worked if 

he distinctly remembered

the self-assured Hubris of the last Republican Administration

thirteen years of languishing American warfare

Treasure consumed

uncounted Lives lost

Families destroyed

the new Bogeyman

ISIS

ISIL                                                                                                                                             DAESH

Al-Nusra Front

Khorasan Group

etcetera etcetera etcetera

was it him or didnt they sound  --  each and every one  --  like Wall Street conglomerates

he scratched his head

no public conversation

plenty of prattling neutering degrading

pontification

religious intonation 

assuming the High Road

a Yellow-Coward Congress not meeting its Constitutional obligations

a new Years - long conflict entered into without any determinate cost analysis

               

How about  he thought  we talk about New Taxes Assessed to afford this Conflict since

the last  --  no  that was incorrect  --  the last wasnt over yet  --  was run so dismally

frankly

he could bet his left testicle “the current authority” wasnt quibbling over these concerns

0008,  Friday,  26  9. 14             

It was utterly terrible and claustrophobic when things became lodged in his head 

skewed or turned sidewise

captured either by fastidious fingering neurons or logjammed  tweaked by extraneous

fiber splinters gnarly bark or snagged on shattered limbs

                                                                    maybe it wasnt a hard physical manifestation

maybe it was chemical

surreptitious  a thickening clotting or oozing               malignantly syruptitious

though not truly malignant  only in the sense that his processes werent freeflowing  

harbored in brackish backwaters and washes

tepid

dammed

scarcely swelling at or drooling from the lip where its forms may have cured impatiently

imperfectly

the aggregates failing to rise

or worked

creamed  too fine and frail

it reminded him of the Everglades  its mangroves knotty roots cluttered with organic and

inorganic debris 

odd  small spinning whirlpools

then dissipating

it reminded him of the Tennessee Valley Authority  all the abandoned small towns and

hamlets rotting underwater

their stories held down

submerged 

undiscovered graves

--   Somewhars here about

their bodies and Histories unexhumed

 

                                 just because they couldnt be seen didnt mean they werent there

all this varied unrelenting aching
  

something had best give way soon before he threw himself headlong from a window

his hands stuffed into his pockets

a full pen tucked behind his ear

 

and then

leaned back

he watched a parchment of dry brown leaves cling stubbornly in a treetop

neglected now

their photosynthesis fulfilled

useless  extraneous

soon mulch

or feed for insects and grubs

                                                                                                        

or rot
 

NO  he wasnt taking kindly to the wood or calciferous stones miring his mind

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