At the ball and chain store pharmacy
en route to get dental floss and reading glasses
i saw on every box of hair coloring
the face of Taylor Swift . . .
’omg’ i thought ‘is this a Valentine's Super Bowl psyops or what?!’
Never mind the umpteen choices of hair colors,
suddenly the mouths began to move
and the faces morphed into the lead singers of the MIC Band,
a three-headed woke feminist monster,
with Kathy J. Warden, the Chair and Chief
Executive Officer and President of Northrup Grumman
(weapons manufacturer)
and Pamela Erickson, Senior VP and Chief
Communications at Raytheon Technologies
(weapons manufacturer)
and Stephanie Pope, Chief
Operating Officer Executive Vice President at Boeing
(weapons manufacturer),
(not to mention the rest of the male names
of the starting trouble lineup,
Chief Technology Officer,
Chief Digital Officer,
Chief Human Resources Officer,
Chief Financial Officer,
Chief Operating Officer),
and the three-headed MIC Band was singing
a tribute to the potus,
belting out Barbra Streisand's classic but a Freudian slip ensued
"Memories
May be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply to choose to forget...
Whenever we remember
The way we war"
but it was right then that the Network announcer,
named Finch like a bird, abruptly interrupted shouting how
we shouldn't forget! should remember! …
that the Saint Francis team name comes from 1849
when prospectors from the eastern US, from Europe and China
and Mexico and South America bolted to California
through the Great Plains and into the West Coast
to strike Manifest Destiny gold which brought disease
and an estimated 120,000 Natives lives lost in so-called California,
then fast-forward to 1920s,
black-gold aka oil discovered in Osage lands, so-called Oklahoma,
what the film Killers of the Flower Moon is about,
fast-forward to 2020s Nevada, white-gold aka lithium,
btw the Bowl at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, and
also in so-called Nevada, Thacker Pass, Paiute/Shoshone lands,
now being destroyed by lithium mining, plus
over 21,000 lithium claims in Nevada.
So speaking of paradise,
who the hell you gonna root for,
the Fast-Forwarding 1849s or
the Culturally Appropriated Chiefs?
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Appreciate the poetic totemic response, Nowick.
Yeah really! And how they got there, also telling: the 49ers making extinct the Lions in their quest for gold, and the so-called Chiefs, for their part, plucking the long tail feathers of the mighty magic Ravens, and before that Buffalo, now silenced all: hooves rendered into cultural melting pot glue, and trickster truth consigned to a swift demise.