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You might ask what it takes to remember/When you know that you’ve seen it before/When a government lies to their people/And a country is drifting to war. Jackson Browne, “Lives In the Balance”

dot zero: disclosures found in the epstein files

dot one: the now-misnamed department of justice defies congressional demand, redacting the bejesus out of the disclosures and continuing to withhold 99% of the material

dot two: more and more extreme executive moves including boat strikes, the invasion of venezuela, and outrageous demands to acquire a sovereign nation

dot three: two brutal murders in minnesota

dot four: demand of voting lists from minnesota in exchange for the withdrawal of armed, warrantless murderers

dot five: looming midterm elections

dot zero again: disclosures in the epstein files that would wreak havoc on the upcoming elections

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the dots are connectable as a circle or a star of David or, overlapping dots zero and one, a pentagon or a pentagram or a star such as is found on the flag of the united states of america

or, doubly connected, may form the tetragrammaton symbol, sometimes employed by occult practitioners to invoke a demon or demons

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our search for the truth often takes us down unexpected corridors

the evasion of the truth by the guilty and powerful is taking us down a frightening blind alley

killing some of us

and staining the soul of the heartland

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so we observe

we record

some brave souls water the tree of liberty with their blood

and through struggle and heartbreak we find and connect more dots

and a web will form to stymie and trap the traitorous perpetrators of evil and injustice

and on a better day we will say “never again”

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alas, we have said and meant that before.

many times.

Oh dear: There is a report

That ICE agent Jonathan Ross

Has suffered “Internal bleeding.”

Do you climb stairs, my friend?

Every time you do, you suffer the internal bleeding

That comes with the breaking

Of a dozen or so capillaries.

Internal bleeding is a mundane part of our daily lives.

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The innocent poet, devoted wife and loving mom

Renée Nicole Good

Suffered Internal, fatal projectile-induced bleeding

And is no more.

Murderous agent Ross

Walked away unscathed

And left the scene of his crime

Even though there was a physician

Begging to be of help.

Let’s bring that soulless murderer to justice

Broken capillaries and all.

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The page begins with the Quadratic Formula, which, in my younger and more phony-baloney days, I tried to impress my then-girlfriend, next-wife, the former Joni Froehling, by deriving, via the “completing the square” trick and other manipulation. She is no longer married to me, and who can blame her?

A masterful Valley of the Sun poet, Jed Allen, gave me a copy of his awe-inspiring chapbook THE FEAR OF ALGEBRA in appreciation of my reading of his poem “Zero Yard” at the Caffeine Corridor poetry event more than a year ago. Ever since, I have wanted to return the favor, and with this page I hope I have.

The words to the acrostic:

Attitude adjustments sometimes end up on a slab
Lose a Johnny Weismuller–or was it Buster Crabbe
Gain a Tarzan wannabe–a grey-stoked stufféd shirt
Err if you must on Caution’s side: man’s slaughter, shy of Murder
But in the diagram above as x is offed by a
Really not the culprit, who will always get away
Alias: The Solver, of manipulative manna
& a wealth of victims whose mystique is drowned in channel

The theme and meaning of the poem and its related ancillary material are left as an exercise for the student. Ironic hint: spelling out a solution murders Mystery. [enigmatic smile; fade to black]