bully pulpit puppetry 

crispr your genes to oblate perfection
involve no one in your self abuse

life goes sideways as long as it’s going
damburst dumb and long

open the flue and shut your mouth
don’t get your super ego too eager

your id pilfers your farewell drugs
a mad sacker to hack your genome

you want to want to be blue
youre full of inertia and anonymities

youre a vervet of the monticules
a slag to the molecules errant

youve been warned and now youre on notice
to be sacked and attacked and occupied

malpractice petards all about the palace guards
the bully pulpit molders and molts

we be the fib incarnate
we scalpel your epaulets

you puppet them both
you get the fist

and we gotta pay our taxes for this?

What I’m Reading:

The Monroe Doctrine’s ignoble history is well known today. Over the course of two centuries, the United States would cite the doctrine as a self-issued warrant to intervene against its southern neighbors, from the taking of Texas to more recent efforts at regime change in Venezuela and Nicaragua. Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americans, even before they had started to regularly use the word imperialismo, would in the early twentieth century coin the phrase Monroismo to describe the arrogance of a great power that claimed a writ to police the hemisphere. 

— Greg Grandin / America, América: A New History of the New World