Alternative Fact Checks and Balancing Acts

Shell-cased in soft power

Arms races

Like Carter

I break it down harder

Than kami wind martyrs

With ardor of green cards

Discarded

In red

Apartheids

On the rise

To Partition again

The expendable lives

Buying lies as they trend

From the ones who pretend

Like they too

Don’t depend

On the never-ending

Yellow journalist’s

Pen

Telling them

It means war’s

‘Round the corner

Drug store

Selling them

Echo chambers

Of peace and secure

Insecurities

Dangers and angers

And more

Of the brink

Of extinction

Addiction

In sync with

The small fortune,

Scorching-earth

Failed-marriage trinket

Don’t blink

Or it’s on

To the next

Recrudescence

Perplexed

By how many world hungers

To solve

Could be left

Since the right

In its free-trading slave

Not-so hidden agenda

Still plots its crop

Stockpile

Encomienda

As super-tiendas

Wal off reservation

With always low prices

Conflating inflation

Displacing the plantation

Haitian

Still shaken

By ground-breaking

New innovation

Starvation

And scarce information

Pertaining

Distorted

Contorted, deformed

Or just goes unreported

For more entertaining

Brain-draining discordant

Conformists in torrents

Stream only the terrorized-truth

Water-boarded

Reform is aborted

The right to choose

Thwarted

The norm is a misleading,

News-feeding

Horde

I abhor

As I’ve poured it out,

Sorted out

This horrid, sordid crowd

Doubting that anything reel

Is revealed

To be real

Or just part of some heartless king’s

Artifice

Art of the Deal