[Newspoetry] Re: disinformation, anyone?

[Donald L Emerick]

Notes from a note worthy book

Are they sure that they need a plan?
How could they have been doing it
(supplying false information)
so extremely well all of these years
without some kind of plan?

When a plan is needed for better lying,
when we had no plan for lying at all,
we will certainly become better liars
than we ever have been in the past.

Once upon a time, in lands far away,
we were just rank amateurs at lying.
We didn't know what lies worked.
We just kind of stumbled around,
trying to find those good ways to lie.

Today, yes, today
all our troubles seem far away,
distanced from us by lies, we say,
Oh, they will believe, oh yes, today...

Why, who knows, when we finish,
everyone might enjoy the pleasures
of a neighborhood Pentagon outlet,
right on (TS)errorist Street, near Main,
next to the local police and fire stations.

Yes, indeed, Homeland Security
wants to open branch offices
all over this great land of liberty.
Suppress dissent before it could even speak,
before it becomes conscious of unhappiness,
takes its thought as reasons for demanding
anything of erstwhile servants of the people.

I had thought, and maybe had not thought,
when calendar year 1984 came and went,
that possible Orwellian threats were kaput:
We had only a brave new world ahead of us.

They say a dog can smell fear on you,
will not attack you if you act unafraid.
But why, then, does a dog growl or bark
Trying to unravel your threads of bravado?
And, does that rule apply to mad dogs,
the foaming raving kind who forget why
the scent of fear might be a provocation?
Don't dogs run in packs, many as one,
where some might do such fell deeds
as none of them, alone, would dream?

Last night, on the news, came a story,
A photo, of a pretty little girl, curly hair,
large glasses framing her eyed images.
A pack of dogs -- known for their danger --
had reified their true danger in fang bites,
slaughtered the child, like some road kill.

The Pentagon plans to lie.
It has plans to lie.
It lies.

Now, if I catch them in a lie,
They can say it was one told
For National Security,
For Reasons of State,
And therefore does not matter,
not to me, not to you,
not to anyone who is not privy
to secrets of state,
to states of secrets,
and their secret police.

To prevent the lie from escaping,
we had to arrest tellers of truth,
and shoot them before sunrise,
condemned by secret military tribunal,
as threats to the greater peace and calm
of quiet pro-sports on Sunday afternoons.
Indeed, as half-time entertainment,
we might have such executions then,
to wake up the crowd by the barrage
of guns firing, saluting commercials.

Thanks, I hope, for listening.
Donald L Emerick