The haystack is the needle and the iceberg is compact Scions of attrition tremble before the contract Jaundiced world-weary tears lament the frailty of days and the evanescence of years Senescence a cruel destruction, distracting garish comfort escorting the fears Displaced and forlorn love beckons a second chance Itinerant hopes know no commitment to simple embezzled parlance Of dice and kin, nepotismβs high-roller antics are the linchpin Frittered patience staking its bets on internecine dynamics of skin Affirmative traction of disenfranchised hopes rests on fallow seasons Traduced mirage tantalizes until the activation of regaled treasons Shock wed with dismay appoints the tutelage of prestidigitation Juggled triage aborts an unborn reason and anoints intimidation Aliens flummox the borders to enlist a new world disorder Trailblazers succumb to lawlessness and for every dollar gained we lose a quarter Chaos checkmates as power rests from decrepit hands foisting the meretricious brand Cattle scorched and sheep scattered as the broken hourglass can no longer count sand Time toppled serenaded by applause canned Toppled pyramids blind the eye of providence in the hour of unheralded prominence The terror of history unfurls the efflorescence of piracy as ghosts work to subvert the invisible hand Next dictums emerge that say supply on command, and entropy desecrates the land Phone home to arm the putsch, clone home for aliens we push Revisionism subverts the instruction of years and empowers the apotheosis of fear and the fourth ***** of George W. Bush Dynasties envy the anonymity of a bald-eagle cabal of skinhead guffaw Irascible genocide cavorts under the premise of shock and awe The lullaby of morons is flinching assent to the supremacy of the unelected and unassailable tyrants Discarding covenants on the principle of principality and counting on every knight to become errant Pyrrhic victory of the perverted cross corrals the flock Openly announced secrets enable the aliens to dock At the port they are greeted as the victors and granted not only amnesty but indemnity They brandish the unprecedented concept of an enumerated infinity To amuse the zero-sum victory they author a new history of utilitarianism dethroning deontology To the future readers they make contrite apologies But when the races of men are annihilated by the evil Zen boasting of its utilitarian ken The rubble of time cannot ascertain exactly how or when But on the dreaded hour the virus will conspire to elect the most reproachable power When panic reaches crescendo all the sugar in the world cannot but help to taste anything but sour Abort the tyrannical machine no matter how convincingly it preens No matter how much bunkum elevates the enchanting prevarication while concealing the affairs behind the scenes Voting for balkanized splinters designed to weather the winter sustains the monopoly of sophistry Ballyhoo saturates the airwaves and suddenly catcalling becomes gallantry Tune out the pulpit, divest the culprit and impugn systemic venality Dismantle the verisimilitude of shadows and hoist a giant mirror to reflect stark realities Cue the curtains fall, the specters grow tall, and the clout is daunted by establishment doubt The skeletonized truth severs the root but the behemoth armed to the teeth wages a bout Cartels conspire with arms and fire and resurrect stodgy tenets to prowl like an army of vampires To feed a fatuous superstition and to empower a censorship of convenience to enthrone a dark empire Cunning preponderance enlists divisive shills to let the ghastly thriller exact its thrills Occult obscurantism funds the vulnerable and tramples over the outspoken to actuate its will Hopes dashed, stocks crashed and strife abundant Generational dissonance revokes the incumbents Chapter one of this unsung war come and gone Stay tuned for the next addendum to see what is lost and who has won.