Month: October 2025

Recent political events have convinced us that the American-English lexicon can appropriately be adjudged as haplessly inadequate. Words such as”egregious,” “dystropic,” “flagrant,” “atrocious,” and “Orwellian” empirically prove to be too “vanilla” and inadequate to serve as sufficiently contextual descriptions.

The Nation’s neurotically egocentric Chief of State has singularly chosen to bypass any considerations of rationality and moral responsibility relative to his despotic service to the Democratic Republic. The American Constitution, the rule of law, and the societal moral compass have given way to his neurotic lust for unlimited power and infantile approval.

The mainstream American citizen has alarmingly observed, with Donald Trump’s programmic attack on “truth,” on institutions of higher education, on the Nation’s institutional media, its Federal Civil Service, the latter, inclusive of its cestablished, vital health research services, heartlessly eliminated programs of relief (food and medicine) to the needy, domestic and international, arrogated to the federal government women’s right to decide on personal matters of birth and size of family, approved and encouraged book and speech censorship, unconstitutionally utilized his cabinet, most notably, the Office of the U.S, Attorney General, to wreak vengence upon his “political enemies,” befriended and assisted the Nation’s perverse White Christian Militias, irresponsibly removed our Nation from morally responsible and salutary environmental treaties, eliminated regulations protecting citizen health, labor, and safety regulations, inclusive of those relative to food safety, water, purity, medicines, clean air and airplane travel safety.

This accusatory demagogue has, himself, publicly committed voter fraud and incited a violent and bloody insurrection against the Capitol. Trump has befriended the Nation’s sworn enemies and befuddled its historic allies, including NATO, publicly announced his delusional ideation to aggressively acquire Denmark’s sovereign state of Greenland, and our contiguous, friendly neighbor, Canada, he has been adjudged guilty oif 34 felonies and criminally indicted for an additional plethora of other venal criminality, such criminal indictments held in abeyance (only) due to his office, he has been adjudicated a tax fraud and a sexual abuser and, further to his credit, was a longtime. busom buddy of Jeffrey Epstein, the entrepreneur of the celebrated box-store child prostitution enterprise.

Trump’s egregiously un-American activities may best be exemplified, perhaps, somewhat overshadowed, by his heartless inhumane xenophobia. Spearheaded by the arrogantly contemptible Steven Miller, peaceful, productive, and tax-paying Hispanic Americans have been wrongfully manhandled, arrested, incarcerated, and banished to foreign torture prisons, without a modicum of constitutional due process, including heartless family separation, based upon their incriminating tan skin and language. Such, fascist-like war against innocent members of a tactically designated ethnos is empirically redolent of the historic cruelty of Andrew Johnson’s “Indian Replacement Program,” and World War 2 incarceration of Japanese American citizens. The horrific terror of this autocratic and heartless program is dynamically exacerbated by the Administration’s use of a private, Gestapo-like militia (“ICE”) wearing dystopian face masks in the pernicious style of the Ku Klux Klan. This nightmarish, anti-American, Trumpist travesty is beyond reprehensible and antithetically non-American.

It might credibly appear that such extreme, fascistic, and inhumane xenophobic practice might qualify as the zenith of the Trump-MAGA arsenal of un-American travesties; nevertheless, in that toxic milieu, there appears to be no conceivable or ascertainable limit. Despite its rational inconceivability, Donald J. Trump, the (dystopic) President of the United States, has implausibly and delusionally. declared War against the Nation by (illegally) sending American military troops to selected States, to secure peace and safety upon alleged non-existent, propagandistically declared, high levels of crime.

Human history would undoubtedly attest to the exotic singularity of an autocrat or monarch who chose to declare war against their own country; however, this may be the first time the American Nation has experienced the extent of Donald J. Trump’s aberrational persona.

It is relevantly clinical and bizarrely consistent with the empirically demonstrated purview of Donald Trump’s hubristic and delusional ideations, to note that he had earnestly requested Sweden to award him the Nobel Peace Prize.

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We have previously commented on the provenance of modern religious belief, opining upon its advent as the worship of the Gods deemed responsible for Man’s seasons. We stated that certain prescribed rituals performed with the evergreen trees, which, unlike other flora, were observed to magically survive the cold winter, faithfully for a few months, restored life to the “Sun God.” concomitant with the revitalized flora and fauna. We were bold enough to opine that early rituals, involving such natural phenomena, were doubtlessly responsible for the advent of religious belief in death and resurrection.

We choose to maintain an analogous dynamic relevant to the present governmental dystopia and its threats to American constitutional democracy. Man’s long enjoyment of the unfettered franchise for personal development and fulfillment is inarguably “Evergreen,” i.e., never withered or wilted. The existential desire for freedom of expression and action, once experienced, is systemic and everlasting.

The cold and forbidding ambiance of neo-authoritarianism of the present Trump-MAGA administration, analogous to the temporally forbidding cold of the Winter Season, will, in due course, be fully resurrected to the traditional American freedom and way of life, with the analogous certainty to Man’s expectation of the natural changes brought about by the fixed orbit of our Planet around the Sun.

Having historically tasted its empirically sweet and emancipating joy, we are supremely confident that the entire Nation will, in short order, adamantly express its preference for the assured liberty implicit in the American Constitutional way of life. The American citizens’ desire for freedom is experiential, perennial, and eternally “Evergreen.”

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Of the veritable legion of odiferous dumpster-fulls of Donald Trump’s obscene anti-American acts, the “tan holocaust,” i.e., the Hitler-like program of victimization and abuse of peaceful, productive, and law-abiding Hispanic Americans, may rank among the most foetid.

The present government, under its current, perverse and dystopic leadership, in its desire for the acquisition of supreme autocratic power, has echoed the fascistic playbook of Adolf Hitler, history’s most notorious tyrant. Strategically singling out a designated category of the American population, as Hitler did with respect to the Jews, the would-be autocrat, Donald J. Trump, has tactically selected our Hispanic American neighbors for victimization.

Our Nation’s despotic, power-hungry style of Chief Executive, in orthodox observance of modern history’s foul and detested Holocaust Field Guide, has tactically chosen the empirically identifiable, viz., tan-skinned and Spanish-language-speaking individuals, as the scapegoat du jour.

Despite official statistics generally attesting, to their productive, tax-paying, and patriotic military service, our dystopic President, albeit (himself, adjudged guilty of no less than 34 felonies with an additional score of federal criminal indictments, held in abeyance, merely due to his Office, with personal adjudications of rape and sexual abuse, tax fraud, bribery in exchange for non-disclosure of his brisk commerce with prostitutes, demonstrated long term bosom buddy relationship with the child sexual abuse magnate, Jeffry Epstein, and overt despiser of the Nation’s Constitution and established Rule of Law, abuser of the societal moral compass, has publicly rationalized the thematic and contemptible policy as “ridding the Nation of criminals.” Such carnival mirror distortion, unfortunately, has been blindly and cultishly accepted by his cultish lemmings, d/b/a, “MAGA.”

The horrific optics are inclusive of the Presidential, nightmarish authorization of a masked Gestapo-style private army, to wreak traditional Ku Klux Klan styled misery on the contextually scapegoated population, including physical abuse, unlawful arrest, incarceration, banishment to foreign torture prisons, and separation of families; all without a scintilla of validity or mandated constitutional due process.

It is our presumption that, in light of the evident popularity of the American Civil Rights movement, relevant to the goal of equal rights for black American citizens and the relatively recent history of the European Holocaust against the Jewish people, the Nation’s population of the Hispanic ethnicity was the pragmatic, reprehensible, and evilly-inspired choice.

All Americans of goodwill, Latino and otherwise, as American citizens, are morally and principally obliged join in a concerted effort to oppose Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters in their malign efforts to undermine our democracy, inclusive of the present contextual, Kristallnacht-like effort to prosecute fellow Hispanic-American neighbors, as well as Donald Trump’s detestable plethora of un-American travesties, including autocratic violation of posse comitatus, Nazi-style retribution against political rivals, denigration of the media and of higher education, and autocratic despoilation of the fundamental tenets of the American Constitution.

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[Historical Provenance]: It was the universally celebrated virtuoso of the originally three-hole noiseflute, Maestro Ignatz Volvarian (1919-1979). The Maestro garnered world acclaim by his superlative, heart-stopping performance of the “Bohemian Rhapsody, on his venerable three-hole noseflute before the assembled German and Russian delegates at the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Since that time, descendants of the musical genius have perpetuated the aesthetic fame of the contextual musical instrument, recently and metaflusively enhanced by the addition of an impactful fourth hole.

The contemporary beneficiary of the contextual musical skill is the grandson of Ignatz Volverian, Igor Ramos Volvarian, whose performances before the myriad of nose flute aficionados, reportedly, have earned him international accolades. It had long been discovered that the contextual nose flute produces tones that are not entirely suitable for recording, despite the progressive and impactful addition of a fourth hole, so that musical aficionados of the instrument found that personal attendance at participating music venues, such as the Met and Carnegie Hall, aesthetically permitted the true potential for the exploitation of the instrument’s potentially profound depth of exhalatory emotional expression.

As an indirect, yet exceedingly profitable consequence of the growing taste for such esoteric music, television sales of specific pharmaceuticals claiming relief from nasal congestion have skyrocketed, and young Igor Ramos Volvarian benefited financially from such grateful and generous companies. With monies earned from his musical performances, and the addition of such gratuities, the young nose-flute empressario, factually assured of financial stability, married the daughter of a prominent couscous manufacturer, and soon after having two children by his bride, Brunhilda, viz., a son. Ignatz, Jr, and a daughter, Ramona-Immaculata, purchased a suburban home in Great Neck, Harbor, New York.

As luck would have it, a post-graduate student at Stony Brook University, engaged in field study on the Long Island Pine Barrens, discovered that her recorded nose-flute music, played during her rest breaks, consistently attracted Hummingbees and huge clouds of Monarch Butterflies. She excitedly photographed the beautiful flying creatures and subsequently included them in a published book, the latter, founded upon her thematically altered doctoral thesis, quickly became a best-seller, based on the exemplary kudos published in Sierra Magazine. Sales of the book, as well as newly engineered and acoustically improved recordings of Igor Ramos’s nose flute offerings, now hit their zenith; the young Valvarian family had suddenly and fortuitously become rich and famous.

We are led to empirically conclude that in our free and enterprising Democratic Republic, the attainment of great financial success is eternally possible and, inarguably, nothing to sneeze at.

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Moist ethereal breezes intimately whisper
Cooling balm to sunbaked foliage.
Trees, now attired in military raiment,
In styles bespeaking revolutionary riot,
Proclaiming in an eye-sparkling manifesto,
The swift advent of seasonal overthrow.
-There’s no time to lose!

Boughs strain heavy with seasonal fruitage.
The bounty, tho’, forsaken by large mammals,
In search of safer havens
Alas, no time for juicy gorging,
Time’s to be spent for seasonal survival.
Smaller ones, storing food, burrowing deep.
Instinct warns, dalliance spells disaster!
-We must not tarry!

Winged creatures depart aloft
Huge flocks with little hesitation,
Escaping to safer geography.
Could one but hear beneath the forest floor,
The excited chatter of woodland critters,
Anxiously nose-wrinkling rodent reconnaissance
-Is there yet time?

Darkening clouds bespeak woodland calamity
Soon, winter gales, storms, sheets of ice,
Snow, that covers safe niches and hide-outs,
Cold that delights in shivering death.
All must forsake the Fall magic.
– And again, we will be ready!

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(Leonard N. Shapiro, Sept. 2018)

In our estimation, there is no more expressive genre of fine art comparable to poetry in its effective transmission of aesthetic emotion. Our conception of the creation of such rarefied art is analogous to the painstaking process of extracting and distilling precious from the earthly soil of human experience. The refined riches of human emotion, singularly expressed by poetics, are painstakingly extracted from the conglomerate “soil” of Man’s empirical experience, yielding the aesthetic expression of intimately reactive feelings.. As such, the essence and contextual legitimacy of the contextual art form are matters of literary significance. We might, if warranted, avoid the potentially critical charge of presumption by the revelation that our conception and thematic criteria for” poetry” are fundamentally based upon our understanding of its conception by the revered English poet, Samuel Baker Coleridge.

We are regular subscribers to such journals and magazines, which, as perceived are ubiquitously considered to be “literary” and aesthetic journals.”The American Scholar” (Phi Beta Kappa), “Smithsonian Magazine”, “The Atlantic,” and The “New Criterion” have personally been sources of aesthetic pleasure and, at times, an expansion of consciousness by their respective inclusion of contributors of well-written and thought-provoking essays on a universe of thought-provoking matters philisophical and ethical, as well as the issues of the day.

Such established and recognizably excellent journals, nevertheless, seem to have a mutual affinity for the mutual publication of works of “poetry”; the latter provoking the conceivably radical but hopefully non-presumptuous context of this perturbed writing. Stated simply, we would, thematically, inquire as to the legitimacy of these regularly presented offerings, in fact, as “poetry,” in the ultimate analysis? We do not maintain that the ubiquitous offerings are not worthwhile reading;, we merely question their inclusion in the authentic genre of “Poetry.”

We would reprise our declaration that in the creation of “poetry,” we are adherents to the definition of the contextually esoteric art, declared by the classic British poet, Samuel Taylor Breckinridge, viz., that poetry fundamentally consists of ” word imagery and economy of speech.”. As an illustration, we might construe a poetic description of a beautiful young girl as ” a fresh rosebud on a newly fallen drift of snow.” The poetics reside in the economy of the analogical visual description.

In addition to the painstaking obligation to select the words most expressive of the poet’s emotional intent, poetics also involves other aesthetically communicative considerations in its creation, inclusive of, their sylabic arrangement in such a manner that the poet creates a tempo conducive to the desired context of the work. The most accessible example of this expressive technique is best illustrated in Longfellow’s rhythmic work, “Hiawatha,” in which the metric tempo replicates the relevant sound of indian drumbeats. Further impactful considerations are found in the choice of the length of the work’s lines (“stanzas”) as well as the poem itself.

Our illustrative (and favorite) illustrations of truly aesthetic and soul-accessing works of poetry, offered in historical order, are: William Shakespeare’s Sonnet “On Love,” William Wordsworth’s magnificent “Intimations of Immortality,’ and Walt Whitman’s “I Sing the Body Electric.” The experienced, eclectic combination of analogical metaphor, tempo, and depth of meaning, in our estimation, is irrefutably illustrative of truly artistic and legitimate poetics.

The “poetry” ubiquitously appearing in the estimable journals cited rarely contains the above-stated ingredients mandatorily encompassing our perception of the creation of the singular art of poetry. Instead, we are presented with offerings, albeit at times aesthetically worded, purporting to qualify as poetry, by the intentional use of obscure or archaic vocabulary, unorthodox phrasing, and/or length of line with sophomorically suggestive, albeit unattained, (faux) depth. Some of these troubling entries indicate that they are chosen excerpts from entire volumes of “poetry” produced by the dubious “poet.”

We are disappointed and, expressed prosaically, “discombobulated.”

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As predictable as a butterfly’s emergence from its larva, our emotional reaction to the Trump-MAGA Presidency has morphed into a clear and present danger to the endurance of our way of life as well as the American Democratic Republic

The dystopic, un-American Trump Administration has been the subject of too many of our past writings. Trump’s publicly announcd intention to be a dictator, his repudiation of the American Constitution and the Rule of Law, his castigation of the media and institutions of higher education, his interference with the definitial, democratic vote, fomentation of a criminal insurrection and unjust use of the Presidential Pardon, his destructive, imposition of tariffs on on our Nation’s trading partners, the use of his office to unconscionably enhance his family’s wealth, his illegal use of the military to invade the sovereignty of the States, his designation of a private horde of masked “flying monkeys” (ref: Alice in Wonderland) as a Gestapo-style force to intimidate, mistreat and destroy the lives of innocent Hispanic Americans, his cancellation of empathic progams of relief to the needy, both nationally and internationally, his destruction of the Nation’s vitally important health research agencies, his intimate relationships with the tyrannical leaders of the Nation’s recognized enemies and repugnant behavior towrards its allies, including NATO, his ubiquitous lack of moral compass, serial mendacity., his 34 felony convictions and plethora of criminal indictments, held in abeyance by reason of his office, his treasonous purloining of top secret governmental documents, his official adjudications of tax fraud as well as sexual abuse, his innate reality-blinding egocentrism, not to omit his metaphysical incapability, as Chief Executive and his abhorrant personal behavior, have been thematic subjects of past writings.
Donald Trump’s demonstrated dystopic, egocentric persona as relates to his role as President of the United States may be described as empirically distasteful, but more significantly clinically worrisome. The recent, observable, erratic behavior of the Nation’s Chief Executive has empirically transmogrified our earlier feelings of odium to an emotional state of primal fear for the very existence of our Nation and its population, and, conceivably, others. Before the brief recitation of such contextual symptoms of such “clear and present danger,” we would take the liberty of emphasizing that the current erratic President singularly carries with him a card which affords him the irrevocable franchise to make the unimpeachable decision to initiate nuclear war. Imagine the analogy of a rapid-firing weapon in the hands of a drunken and crazed gorilla.

In our earlier attempts at moderating our fears, we chose to perceive the odious actions of Donald J. Trump as egoistically driven ignorance. Recent events have now obliged us to conclude that the Presidency of Donald J. Trump poses an existentially imminent danger. We would once more reprise our terrifying and impactful observation that this orange hazmat has, in his pocket, the nuclear trigger

The first of the two startling events that triggered our contextual fear was Trump’s seemingly endless, sophomoric address, accurately described as a “rant” before the United Nations, which was embarrassingly disjointed and incoherent. It included the delusional statement that he has “made America great again,” along with a myriad of other disconnected, cringeworthy declarations, such as to invest any thoughtful American blush with national shame.

The “final match in the gunpowder barrel ” involved the unprecedented Presidential summons of 800 of the Nation’s senior military leaders to the Capitol for an official meeting; irrespective of the danger of terrorist attack on the venue, the hazardous removal of supervisory officers from their strategic locations, the complex logistics, and the enormous expense incurred.

The awaited “Gettysburg Address” moment, for this historically unprecedented event, saw an incongruous reprise of the endless, disjointed rant delivered before the U.N., containing such deranged observations that he signs Executive Orders with a prominent pen on high-grade, “golden” paper, compared with his “sleepy” predecessor, who uses a cheap pen and ordinary paper.” This starlingly assinine and hubristically articulated boast, and other clinically articulated and diagnosable assertions, were delivered before his summoned, 800 top military leaders of the three branches of the United States Military. We presume that if not for their disciplined military fealty they would have had an appropriate negative response. This proudly declared assertion was typical of the myriad of outlandish rants by the MAGA shaman especially notable in consideration of the singularly unprecedented occasion, inarguably exceeding the boundaries of the adjective, “bizarre”, and revelatorily clinical and potentially disastrous.

Considering such recent indications of the extent of Donald Trump’s dangerous mental infirmity, Congress will aptly deserve the historical blame for the potential effects of Donald Trump’s evident mental derangement, unless it responsibly removes him under Article 25 of the Constitution.

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