the rubicon continues to fall into place

a few minutes to midnight

syria iraq yemen in flames

ukraine & the baltic states
like chess pieces
shoved down a fossil throat

cheap politicians

trade epitaphs
for their future grave markers
and currency

moguls find new clothing

change quickly
in the senate cloakroom
steal the latest itune

in this kind of world

encryption wraps king tut
like an adolescent's
wet dream

hate and/or neglect

speaks the language of the airwaves
levees break upstream
an outstretched arm pokes from a rooftop

elites gush

like they just found the secret code
browbeating & interrogation
morphs into guilt by association

a chameleon on every block

a snitch in every bedroom

--- e b bortz