Deja Vu Cover Up in Plain Sight All Over Again

The brow furrowed history talking head
full of their official narrative looks almost
wonder struck at camera for after all ‘they’
have referred the former president again
for criminal prosecution in fact hung the
whole sad affair right there on his ultimate
comb over version of 1950’s hard guy locks
pompadour of carefully threaded illusion
when by now we actually know that almost
all of it the two supreme court kings who
were ready to give legal cover, indeed one
even voted twice to cover up his wife’s ob-
vious involvement as liaison to high court
of corrupt political hacks who had already
stolen at least one if not all the elections of
my adult lifetime but who could’ve thought
and how could it have come to this, you see
when maybe, after all, Ford should not have
pardoned Nixon and covered up those mafia
connections and mob money smack dab in
middle of the cover up (that was worse than
the 2nd rate burglary) but oh, heavens forbid
even mentioning how Ronald Rayguns Zap!
and H.W. Geo. Bush were allowed to walk be-
cause the ‘prez’ was so demented and the V.P.
had all the outstanding cases pardoned from
Iran-contra by Bill Barr Attorney General of
the president can do anything to anyone per-
son for first H.W. Geo. Bush and then Trump
just as Mueller put away the money trail of
BCCI Bank of Commerce and Credit Internat-
ional Saudi Arabian mover of money for Som-
oza’s contra goons to shoot public health and
education workers in Nicaragua’s revolution
and then ignoring finances in the Russiagate
investigation of Trump but then it turns out
right down below here in the dank bowels of
America the empire has as it always has done
this constitutional crisis been swallowed that
imperial president, the supremes of court less
injustices, legislators who can’t make a budget
their one central task overwhelmed again by
everything for the evil Empire so with nothing
left over for the people the U.S. that is all of us
floating the collapsed economy of poor Ukraine
of some tens of millions of people on “defense”
department allocations unlimited while people
who vote all this havoc abroad of proxy war and
regime change judicial, executive, & legislative
every time you turn around it’s another devious
turn Watergate, Iran-contra, Jan. 6th conspiracy
blatant abuse and then along comes good old boy
friends of the imperial security state to tidy it all
up and never ever see the pattern that makes the
criminals and their awful enablers exactly almost
            (sorta kinda actually not exactly)
                             the “SAME”

 

James Van Looy has been a fixture in Boston’s poetry venues since the 1970s. He is a member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and has run poetry workshops for Boston area homeless people at Pine Street Inn and St. Francis House since 1992. Van Looy leads the Labyrinth Creative Movement Workshop, which his Labyrinth titled poems are based on. His work appears weekly in Oddball Magazine.