1 SOP
I
Made easy by deceitfully holding out
the supremely-ironic fairy-tale promise
of its cure-all code-word tonics
namely safety
security and the surety of freedom
the empire’s SOP requires
that increasingly appealingly disguised
forms of enslavement
and modes of surveillance
are brought to bear on its subjects’ lives;
requires
that through the effective deception
of projecting a virtuous impression
(by means of rhetorical moral posturing
with its Oscar-worthy pretense
of championing all-things-ethical)
unconsciously triggered aspersions
are automatically cast
against those who dissent;
against vigilant thinkers who scoff
at absurdly sanitized versions
of what classified info would show
were covert ops and false flag events;
who scoff at claims of noble goals
and wholesome intent.
II
Befitting that Fordian quip
that frequently paraphrased crack
about any color you like so long as it’s black
the irrepressibly selfless empire exports
by both subtle if underhand means
and nakedly lethal brute force
the irresistible gift of democracy
provided of course the natives elect
whichever hand-picked puppet regime
the imperial wizards deem fit to select
in their infinite beneficent wisdom.
III
Considering the brazenly-fake-altruistic
doublespeak pretext exemplars
of “responsibility to protect”
and “humanitarian intervention”
along with “color revolutions”
financed and fomented
by dedicated destabilization agents
on subversive foreign missions;
considering these
were but some of the latest
outrageously-two-faced additions
to an ever-swelling repertoire
of diabolical tactics and strategies
for unleashing
the unconstrained imperium’s
cutting-edge depravities
one wondered what more-demonic
the heinous apparatus of empire
could have possibly wanted
that it hadn’t already produced
via the usual tried-and-true
divide-and-rule devices
of cultivating chaos and conflict
and sustaining states of crisis?
2 Paying the Bloody Bills
When the bread grows so scarce
it hasn’t time to go stale
and the circuses fail to fully distract
empires require police-state-propping cops
to keep the teetering domestic peace
in the shadow cast by looming collapse;
need goons guns and gases
jailers jail cells and fines
to keep the home front masses
from stepping outside the lines
as the boys in blue and riot-gear-black
do their brutal-best to subdue and repress
while the tireless military finds itself busy
causing carnage in faraway lands
as the tax-battered unwitting civvies
fund the power-crazed shot callers’ plans
and the warfare state does all that it can
to pummel the face of the human race.
Slaughter abroad repression at home
the workers pay for the bankstered wars
propaganda works hard to have them condone.