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The billionaires owned all the buildings we finally saw as the coffins they had been.
No money saved, no money spent, no one to let us in.
No one could afford the rent.

Tents clogged the streets. No one could afford to drive.
**** and **** like rivers thrived. No one left to deprive.
Skin pulled tight over ribs shining bright.
Hunger and madness, the daily delight.
And don't pretend you didn't know.
The children are always the first to go.

The other day made the sky cry rust.
Our God was money, and in God we trust.
Who fell to the earth, hands full of life. Waiting ourselves to die.
If it wasn't us, would the sky still be blue?
If we wait to understand. Who among us ever knew?

Over the hills, they pressed. Rifles clinched tight in hand. The things we thought we taught were things you cannot understand.
Charging in to the National Guard, the Marines,! Bullets blinking harmlessly off  the APC’s,
Delirious and suffering they raged against the only ones with food.

Mercy we gave ourselves.

Better than suffering until the end.
To be put down in the field of boarded over main street.   Our last stand brilliantly illuminated in the 500,000 Watt spillage of the sports ball stadium, still unpaid.
For that at least something mattered.
As the blood flew and clung. Righteousness splattered.
And so the shots rang out, the bodies fell... the piles built.
The orange Tacos Manatees could not conceive of  “GUILT”.

To sign into  law  our  Living hell.
The dead and dying all around. The lovely, rotting  and the crying, sound.
The Walmart shelves were empty.
Costco ran with blood.
Nowhere to charge the electric cars. The few that understood.
Concrete suffocated life, nowhere to dig the wells.  
And still the advertiser schemed  and automated corporations ... loaded shells.
Roy Black – Epstein’s high-profile defense attorney.
Jeffrey Epstein – The “suicide” that smells like a hit job.
Antonin Scalia – Supreme Court Justice found dead on a pillow with zero autopsy (yeah, that’s normal). The proceedings  were done via a phone ?
Ivana Trump – Trump’s first wife, whose " accidental " staircase fall is sketchier than a Florida real estate deal. She traversed  them blown out on Champagne and pills every day, just fine for  years.

His hero is KGB poisoner  / ****** mass murderer  Putin.

Epstein had more money than he knew what to do with. He wasn't suicidal. Trump got the guy in  Florida elected. His name is Acosta. Epstein's lawyer, Roy, worked with Acosta to get the sentence down to only 13 months.
So he would have either gone to a federal low or a camp. *** offenders survive those environments every day, and his lawyer would have told him that.
This is a guy who owned islands and had multiple jets. He understood what extradition treaties are and how they work. Not somebody who would have killed himself.
In this scenario, two different cameras go off at the same time. Two guards that are supposed to be watching this guy both fall asleep and sleep through their shift. At the same time the cameras go out, nobody checks on him for three hours.
When they find him, the autopsy reveals that the hyoid process bone in his neck is broken.
That doesn't happen from a low altitude hanging. That type of damage is due to a struggle between two men. Epstein was about 6 foot  tall. Even if he was able to turn the bed up standing up and he leaned forward all the way and he threw himself as hard as he could. Against. Whatever he used around his neck, it would NOT  have produced the blunt force  to break that "floating" bone.
That only happens if there's a struggle.
Then the missing. Some say 2 minutes, some say 3. The best estimate is 2 minutes and 37 second of video s just  mysteriously gone.  
If this were any kind of court case, that would be more than enough evidence to convict.

Then his attorney. OK, this guy's 80 years old, but look at all the photos of him. Oh wait, he was out playing golf, hanging out with his friends, talking. He had schedules to meet. Planned to train his underlings, like he had been doing at his firm for years.
He had a full plate. He was gonna go to the university, deliver speeches and talk to people. He had a golf tee time scheduled.

Then all of a sudden he gets this mysterious illness that they don't want to tell us what it is, and then he's dead. Just at the exact time when the media is focusing on him and they're about to ask him what he and Epstein actually talked about in some of those private meetings. This guy's a top tier lawyer. It's not like he really would have said much, if anything at all. But he knew things about Epstein that nobody else knew.

Trump and his cronies they're gonna fake what that report supposedly has in it. He's already weaponized the DOJ. It's been his personal hit squad since he since actually before he moved into the office itself, since the time he won the election. This attorney was the only guy who could have spoken up and said that's not factual.
the  gun nuts touting the  2nd amendment for profit
claiming  trump will make anything "great again"
are scary as ****.
and chock full of sin.

we used to shut ‘em down
and slaughter them without a frown
in big brutal fires.
The ATF 's  ******* desires.

NOW ?
they run the senate.
and they run the house.
And we have to hide away  quietly as a  little mouse.

The whiplash between Waco’s murderous  inferno
and today’s political climate
is one of the most jarring contradictions
in recent American history.
All charred and blistery.

What was once seen as a
dangerous, cultish, fringe,
now is YouTube-cleansed and repeated
like' The Apprentice '  for binge, binge, binge.

Now bunker builders and bullet hoarders
are wearing their cheap Sunday suits
and writing our educational and world health care policies like cheap money grubbing prostitutes.

The same archetype that got
flattened by our prayer backed tanks and flames
now sits on oversight committees, playing monopoly games
drooling over their own plastic daughters
and fake big-*** Matt Gaetz-sized *******,
waving  the pocket  Constitution and envying prostitution,
proclaiming  themselves
"patriots and worse.  What did  the average American do  to deserve this curse.."

that shift
from siege to Senate From Insurrection to handed out pill *******.
is terrifying.  And to whom are we now supposed to be relying ?

And Marjorie Taylor Greene...
look at her face.
Horrifying. No denying.

What happened at Waco
wasn’t just a tragedy,
it was a signpost,
haunted by ***** Jim Morrison wannabe ghost.

A moment where the government said:
“this is the line.”
but a lil fire will be just fine.

but what happens
when the line itself becomes   the  joke,
a guillotine for all ,  
polished and meant to be seen.

The same ideologies
that once earned a militarized raid
now cozy up with national leadership fat in the shade.
and Sunday school worship trade?

that’s not evolution
that’s a metastasis.
and every tithe helps it persist.

Why was McCarthy so adamant? So scared not because like them he "cared".
Because he knew the Bolsheviks were
(and always have been)
right.

It’s clear to see
in black and white. You have no right to fight.

****** gun cults, ( no animal sticks around for 15 rounds)
Racial grievance and white hate backlash , tired of all the blame. Yet it buries all the same.
pseudo-religious authoritarianism Christo fascism !

They’ve rebranded themselves
their ignorance  and hate and its sadly too late.
Now we starve from Tariffs and wait to die, homeless and plague ridden . The revolution will not be televised   or hidden.
Its a political platform,
not  hollow threats. Roe vs. Wade  bye bye.

No regrets,
doubling and tripling down,
new tariffs to paint the orange clown.  Your body   Ha!
Our  choice,  You never have had a vote against the corporatocracy or a voice.

and the brown shirts are not hiding anymore.
they will come drag you out your OWN front door.

Right  now they’re holding rallies.
they’re writing new laws.
and sharpening old G.O.P.  claws.

and it’s not just absurd.
it’s a kind of national amnesia.

We’ve gone from watching
the FBI torch " nut ball" compounds
to  our "elected' leaders  loading  more rounds,
Launching free AR-15 Christmas cards
as dead kids pile up
in  old school yards
( Remember these are your " Russian "  elected officials.)
no tampering or hampering.
somehow
toothless, brainwashed Christians
are cheering it on.
with Trump signs planted
next to flags
on their lawn.

despair and lunacy
and the only honest language is buried.

That cognitive dissonance
isn’t just personal , it's deadly
it’s starving kids
and cutting school lunches.

it’s systemic,
endemic,
and we will die
in the next pandemic.

this world,
and its Xi JingPing,
Putin,
Elon ***** rocket leaders
don’t deserve our obedience.
let alone respect.

we will see the neglect
in retrospect.
when Trump refuses to leave office
and they come to your door to collect.

starts like always
with banning books.
easier than street fires
where everyone looks.

but same result.
same intellectual assault.
and insult.

and openly racist attacks
with guns and party rhetoric
jammed in our backs.

our people,
and their homes,
and at their jobs.
turn us into fat, greasy, brainless
dollar store candy slobs.

teach the young Republicans
to hate and attack
the gays,

the frogs,
the fluoride water.
it’s all their fault
anyways.

transgender people
openly assaulted
with no remorse,
no compassion.
steal and stock up
on rations.

“America, America,
God shed His grace on thee…”
…and sold bibles,
and golden shoes,
and cardboard N-F-T…

gospel turned grift,
Jesus’s greatest gift.

patriotism turned cosplay,
action now
no oversight, no delay.

P.T.A fake dignity  traded in
for airbrushed
A.I. ******* fantasy
NFTs of  their hot jew  Messiah
with abs and a gun.
all for *** luck Sunday  family fun.

Family hunted in public
for being different
and  those detaining
call it
“freedom.”

Free to buy more crap
you don’t need
and can’t afford.
taught to swipe and ignore
and greedily hoard.

America, America…
God shed His grace on thee…
b for short Sep 9
I never grew tall enough to
confidently grasp the top shelf
cereal box on the first try.
Fumbling, I’d finger its corners—
swiping mercilessly at its edges
until I could feel it fill
the curves of my desperate palm.
It gives in. Gravity assists.
Heels hit the floor.
I won again.
Back then, Persistence was my
favorite professor who always
curved the final.

I never grew mindful enough to
confidently grasp when
I should end the chase.
Writhing, I want and want—
curating the parts of myself
I think he’d like the most, but
he never turns on the light.
I collect dust. The hour hand assists.
Heels hit the floor.
I have this lesson on repeat,
and the stop button is broken.
These days, Hope has become my
favorite form of punishment
who expertly disguises herself
as wisdom.
© Bitsy Sanders, September 2025
Lostling Sep 8
The greatest tragedy
Is that I'll keep loving you
Knowing you won't love me the same
But still hoping anyways
tòng: pain
Madeline Lee Aug 26
sweet like honey
sting like bee
cloak down —i’m swimming in
lost in like fireflies into matches
drizzle drip —got me craving
scrambling like an addict gambling
limelight got me fighting
I can’t help —I’m craving it.
Zywa Aug 22
I studied the sick

man next to me, his hooked thumb --


on the forefinger.
Story "La mano del malato povero" ("The hand of the poor sick man", 1917, Luigi Pirandello)

Collection "Actively Passive"
Zywa Aug 21
People are watching

on their screens, just humbug, no --


disasters today.
Collection "Within the walls"
Zywa Aug 12
Why is my neighbour

driving here and who's getting --


into her car there?
Novel "Onder de korenmaat" ("Under the bushel", 1991, Maarten 't Hart), chapter 7

Collection "The Note Tree"
Nikita Aug 11
Saying too much
Doing too little

Looking into his eyes
Left your bones brittle

Known them one moon cycle
What the hell are you doing

You crave his attention
He's not a steak or pudding

Starve yourself
It's the only way

To rid yourself of an
I love you

Straight away
Codependency and validation aren't sustainable. Pull yourself up and take care of yourself
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