As a homage to The Parlour in Prague...

My favorite spot in my modest home, the gaudy decor as a homage to The Parlour in Prague, a wonderfully quaint below-street lounge, old books, pictures and glassware scattered around, who crafts uniquely mixed drinks per each patron's whim, as well serves and elaborates at the table on the elements and processes...

Elixirs swilled as real, ah logic lost, per anagogic lines
Amongst purrs, slurs, by nightclub felines and canines
Sensuality stirred, garnished by olive, later her lipstick
Rim so smudged, hem then nudged, his usual shtick

Else, lovers’ stints and fits, scents from previous skits
Flicks then devious flits, o’er whiskey’s schizoid-wit
Dirty martini’s android-moods, ah nonetheless broods
Subtly duels, `tween monotony’s psycho-pistol feuds

O lady he so loves, on bar her drink, gun and gloves
Mary sips, to her lips his blood, and their lust thereof
What fuss, hot as musk, fraught the dusk with death
Liken Duncan caught mid thrust, envy and Macbeth

Note:
Verses taken from my 9th book; The Memphis Nightclub Murders & Other Poetic Mysteries.

The widespread acceptance of governmental oversight...

It is FUCKIN' ASTONISHING the widespread acceptance of governmental oversight thus intrusion into individual affairs, compounded by equally widespread tolerance of bureaucratic and crony-corporate censorship thus manipulation of information political, economical, social, environmental, medical and exhaustively more, and exasperated by widespread indulgence towards initial covetousness thus consequential presumption then eventual arrogance...

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth."

Passage found in Chapter 3 of the book 1984 by George Orwell (1903-1950), earlier in Chapter 2...

"The three slogans on the white face of the Ministry of Truth came back to him: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters, and on the wrappings of a cigarette Packet — everywhere. Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed — no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull."

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

There can not be emancipation of Individualism without first recognizing these historical inconveniences...

There can not be emancipation of Individualism without first recognizing these historical inconveniences...

The current unapologetic Despots and unashamed Tyrants among United States' local, state and federal politicians rose not within spans of weeks, months even years, rather numerous decades, that is to say over two centuries incrementally upon the Summer and Scheme of 1787 then 1792 as rehearsed by Washington's March and Madness 13,000-strong against a few West Pennsylvanian Individualists, reiterated by Jefferson's Ruse and Purchase of Louisiana Territories thus Subjugation of Louisiana Inhabitants and again by Madison's Debacle the Encore of 1812, reaffirmed by Lincoln's promulgated Preservation though purposed Damnation of the Union, paralleled by Davis' Confederacy and Heresy of State Rights underwritten hypocritically per the Enslaving and Erasing of the Singular Human Right to Consent or Dissent on all matters, also paralleled by Presidents' Annihilation of the Indigenous then Reservation of the Remnants, expanded by McKinley's Revocation of Spanish Imperialism per Invocation of American Imperialism, of course gravely even inhumanely outdone by 20th Century's Total Wars as well 21st Century's Perpetual Wars... and many more such inconveniences may appropriately exemplify.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

This Country erroneously contended liberties and rights as plural...

In infancy this Country erroneously contended liberties and rights as plural oppose to Liberty and Right Singular, thus ill formed lists or bills immediately exposing any and all unenumerated, unspecified or unclarified. Interestingly perhaps ironically, as Alexander Hamilton's essay Federalist Papers No. 84 perceptively foretold soon later precisely fulfilled.

From that point forward the Federal along with State and Local governments have incrementally eroded, systematically eliminated one liberty after another right until today the unapologetically boldfaced Tyranny. Yet even now Americans remain covetously determined and cretinously devoted to Government as their omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent Primogenitor, Provider and Protector.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Consider Federalist Paper No. 84...

Consider Federalist Paper No. 84, originally published during the summer of 1788 by The Independent Journal, New York Packet and The Daily Advertiser under the pseudonym Publius, otherwise known as Alexander Hamilton, hence the following excerpt…

"I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? Why, for instance, should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed? I will not contend that such a provision would confer a regulating power; but it is evident that it would furnish, to men disposed to usurp, a plausible pretense for claiming that power."

As included in No. 140 - Bill of Right / 1st Reprise, following No. 139 - Bill of Right as posted (pic), both taken from my forthcoming book; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters.

They have become like the Völkischer Beobachter, Pravda or Rénmín Rìbào...

It could be easily argued the information distributed by major corporate cronies whether news agencies or tech companies have become like the Völkischer Beobachter, Pravda or Rénmín Rìbào.

Quote by Natan Sharansky

"I was a loyal Soviet citizen until the age of 20. What it meant to be a loyal citizen is to say what you are supposed to say, to read what you are permitted to read, to vote the way you are told to vote and, at the same time, to know that all this is a lie."

Natan Sharansky (Israeli politician, human rights activist)

Someday quite soon (if not now) a person may say "I was a loyal American citizen... it meant to say what you are supposed to say, to read what you are permitted to read, to vote the way you are told... at the same time, to know that all this is a lie."