filthy fish fuckers

you know that news station
would never run the true images
of those gestapo thugs of the
malicious leader of the evil empire

but that spanish language version
from miami i watch just enough of
every morning between teaching my first
and second classes is sure to 
cause revulsion, anger, and nausea 

with images of masked brutes
crashing victims into parked cars
or telephone poles, busting windows
dragging often enough citizens or legal with papers
out, slamming them violently onto the concrete

but the others are illegal you say
hmmm i’ve always seen that quite karmically
and applied to europe’s immigration woes as well
but where’s the due process? where is humane treatment?
monsters lurking in the shadows outside of courtrooms 
ready to pounce

all the families they’re tearing apart
all the humble vendors, agricultural workers
university students, and service industry staff
veterans of their goddamn wars too for fuck’s sake
who are all far from the ruthless killers and rapists
they claim they’re capturing

after reading the comanche book
and this current on crazy horse
i am fantasizing more and more
about heading north from this southern mexico
to convene with the narcos and
unite against the common enemy

strike first i’d say
they’re already on their way
over the border hits, guerilla warfare
surprise attack and first run their horses
or the equivalent 

ice ice baby
too fucking cold

maybe with the aid of some narco money
we could design super hydraulic floor jacks
for vehicle flipping but then why not just a bazooka
they’d say as i’d stop to think if we were emulating
the lakota or comanche we’d want those vehicles
undamaged and for our own cache and use

then i watched paul thomas anderson’s latest
the superb one battle after another
and had to laugh how that scenario would
likely lead to the same wake and bake 
rude awakening ghetto pat is dealt (exceptional performance)
this revolutionary shit is only too real
and they got all the guns. they got the funds
and that maybe i wasn’t cut from that cloth
knowing nothing about explosives
been nearly twenty years since i’ve fired a gun
bow and arrows? katana? fine and good and romantic
but likely or practical? i’ve been waiting for the advent
of a true and functioning light sabre for over forty years

will have to see how the movie ends tonight
my wife and i had to agree on an intermission 
when the too close to home subjects 
discussed by the inner circle white men 
filthy fish fuckers began
(rez dogs brilliant this is where the plot thickens
instantly came to mind and those elites and their
secret rites and depraved practices- fish fucking in this instance)
slandering precisely her and hers
which naturally includes me and mine

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a friend commented
that recent poems and posts
have tended toward violence
another gentleman requested more details
of a stupid episode involving an angry
all-day drunk german wayfarer and his quiet 
and pleasant mexican but not local wife
and how bellowing threats at me and random others
for his own hallucinations of a ravished mind
in this peaceful (for the most part) village
got him slapped upside the head and banished
by the east end’s drug kingpin versus the west
who’s done the same, most recently with a purse snatcher

hmmm
look who’s looking out for the community

here relatively peaceful if one does not step out of line
although it’s surely war in many places over
and i’ve worked for decades
to not cross paths with the front lines
though still i seethe and so must
calm and purge and laugh maniacally

there are small potatoes then there are
filthy fish fuckers, the war mongers
and land thieves, war pigs and slavers
architects of genocide, satirized in the brilliant
reservation dogs episode mentioned above
also portrayed in the movie discussed
or manifested in the ugly mug and mugs  
attached to most daily headlines

the movie was great with some
truly hysterical and others scary
scenes (great car chase through a river of hills)
a sinister villain also masterly portrayed
though i might have switched
the order of the last two scenes
and snuck a bit of that hysterical humor
of earlier in the movie into the obligatory
sentimental scene and then a hint of why 
one character chose not to reveal
a very important piece of information
or maybe i missed the hint 
but will surely watch again as
easter eggs abound

so then i applaud a movie and a series
and all those who have taken to the streets
to protest and speak out against injustice
and though one wants the war path
peaceful resistance has had its triumphs 
too