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Saturday, March 3, 2018

RED FLAMINGOS

FRIENDS!

Look what I have for you—another adventure! For those who don’t know about Adventures in Reality (aka Future Memories)  They are an exercise in processing reality through absurdist writing. My friends & I used to write them when we were revolutionary young upstarts. But then i became a respectable citizen for awhile & wrote no Adventures.

But since 2007 I’ve written about one per year. I managed to squeeze one out at the end of last year & now I’m squeezing one in at the beginning of this year because—HOLY SHIT!!—what world do we live in??

I thought it would be appropriate to mash our current reality with ‘Pink Flamingoes’ mainly based on the spies both being named Mueller. Enjoy

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Once Upon A Manafort, President Donald Trump woke up and realized he was all alone. The whole White House, the honeycombs of Congress, the Pentagram, the Extreme Court…all of Warrington, JZ deserted.

He sat on the toilet and tweeted. “Woke up and realized my daughter Jarvanka and many other people are missing from Wars R Us. Where everybody at? Hmu.”

For awhile there was no response but finally special counsel Bob “Cookie” Mueller tweeted back “And the winner is…Miss Mongolia” which was code for “Get your ass to my office I have Intelligence for you”

So he mounted Golf Cart 1 and sputtered over to FBI hindquarters. It was obvious Cookie Mueller had Level 5 bad news. “If you’re wondering where everyone is…” he clawed a file from the desk & tore it open “It’s all in here. Surveillance drones around the city captured these photos.”

Donald wasped as he groped the stack of photos showing all his colleagues & loved ones being abdulla’d by a pair of blue-haired villains in a red helicopter.

“When did this happen?”

“It seems to have occurred during your 9-week golfing tour along the Mexican border”

“Who are those losers w/ hair color #630 Mermaid’s Pool by Nice & Easy? They’re way too old for that color.”

“I don’t know who they are but I traced the copter to a Russian real estate mob in upstate New York. I think they may be comrades of Vlads Putin.”

“The Coolest World Leader in the World?”

“Yes that’s the one.”

“So what should we do?”

“I say we take a trip to Russia, sir.”


*************************** CUT TO:

After securing a room at Motel Stroika, Cookie Mueller left the President to do some feral, bureaucratic investigation.

“Why can’t i go with you?” Donald had esquired.

“I just need to siphon some data” Cookie had told him.

The President hadn’t protested too much when Cookie tied him to the chair, but when he took away the Tweetmachine there were tears.

“Hope the dipshit doesn’t go & have a heart party,” he thought as he traipsed through beautiful downtown Moscow. The Krispy-Krem rose in the distance like a prosthetic circus tent. “Here we are.”

At once Cookie noticed something queer going on in the Red Hood. It was like time had sent its last text from1960. The cars , the hair, the clothes… the peak of atomic chic!

Then he spotted a vintage mobile home parked behind Vlads’ castle. “What’s this mobile home that stands before me? Let’s have a look inside!”

He pickled over & had a look & could not believe his pores! There in the shag living room sat a playpen & in the playpen sat Mrs. Pence wearing nothing but bra & girdle. She was gerbiling out for eggs.

“Vlads! Vlads! Cotton! Cotton! Where is the Eggman? I need my eggs right now!”

A gaunt syphilitic blond entered the room. “It’s all right, Mother. The Eggman’ll be here soon. You just sit tight.”

Cookie couldn’t believe it. “Kellyanne?” 

“Oh, Cotton, “ Mrs. Pence whined to KellyAnne, “I can hardly wait. I just love my eggs soo much.”

“I know, Mother. It won’t be long. Now you know I have to go into town today. Crackers & I are shopping for Vlads’ birthday fiasco.”

“When is it, Cotton?”

“It’s tomorrow night.”

“Can I invite the Eggman?”

“Of course you can, Mother. You can sabotage anyone you like.”

As if on cue a voice came calling from the other side of the mobile home. “Eggs! Eggs! I got yer eggs here!”

Mother Pence quivered like she would rapture from her playpen. “Oh God!! In here Mr. Eggman! In here!”

Cotton/KellyAnne opened the door & in walked none other than VP Pence, carrying a fabulous Oscar de la Renta cryo-clutch. It spewed plumes of carbon dioxide.

Wow, thought Cookie, this is elaborate. Have they been brain-washed? Are they reanimated zombies caught in some perverse role playing game? 

The drama inside the trailer continued as Eggman Pence opened his luxe cryo kit & pulled out a tray of delicate petri dishes.

“Look what I have for you today! I have eggs harvested violently from demure maidens all around the gym! I have little white boy eggs & little white girl eggs! I have big immaculate eggs laid from Europe’s pure & undefiled menstrual line! I have eggs from China & Thailand & Ethiopia!”

“Oh I don’t want that kind! I want the big white ones w/ the royal blood! You know how I like them!”

The Eggman handed Mother a petri dish of royal ova. She squeed and took it in trembling fingertips, stroked it, cooing to the little princes/esses within. But there was more.

“Today I also have vials of hi-potency fertilizer sold separately…and I have some already made up” he wagged a large petri dish enticingly at Mrs. Pence.

“You mean… you have eggs already made up into babies?”

“That’s right Mother, frozen embryos. Which are babies. So what’ll it be for the lady that the eggs love the most?”

Mother reached for the container of human sea monkeys as if it were an engagement ring, trembling and squirting the biggest goosebumps Cookie had ever seen.  “Oh Mr. Eggman! This is a miracle! I feel so blessed to have you as my egg man. Please don’t ever stop bringing me my pretty little eggies.”

“Oh, I will always be your Eggman. As long as my legs are walkin’, and my head is talkin’ exactly like how God sounds, and there are evil sluts everywhere bleeding out their babies on unholy napkins I will be your egg man. You can count on that.”

Mother opened her petri dish & started petting & kissing the embryos until her face was covered in goo.

“Mr. Eggman, will you be my date for Vlads’ party?”

“Of course! I would be proud to call you my Egglady!”

They kissed. Kellyanne/Cotton returned all showered & dressed in her paisleyest dress, her brassy mop now an impeccable beehive.

“Okay you two. I have to go out now. You save some of those eggs Mother—remember we have to make full grown babies with them!”

“I will, Cotton. Bye-bye!”

***************

Cookie crouched down as Cotton left the trailer. Then he followed her over to Vlads’ equinery. He peered through the slats as she went in to talk to the stable genius, who looked a lot like Don Jr.

“Hey Crackers, you about ready for our date?” Of course Jr had a stupid food name too. Cookie was sensing a theme.

“Yep. Vlads will be down any picosecond, then we can secrete!”

And just like that, there he was—Vlads himself. Cookie almost belted out a torchsong but remembered he was on spy duty. Shirtless, rippling at the core, nipples like little fascists standing at attention. Vlads was a vision of me-generation grandeur. He carried a Kalashnikov & a raw steak. “My horse is ready?”

“Yup” Don/Crackers Jr slapped the horse’s rump. Vlads tossed the steak onto its back then mounted it like a piece of gymnastic equipment. “I’ll be back w/ party foods,” Vlads told them, then rode away into the urban tundra.

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Back at Motel Stroika DT was having DTs from Twitter withdrawal. 

“I’m not tweeting, therefore—do I exist? I’m not sure anymore. I’ve never been alone for this long before. It hurts! It hurts! Help! Tweet, tweet! Who can hear me??”

He cried and thrashed about in his restraints. Then he grew tired and cranky.

“Oh why can’t I be as cool as Vlads Putin? Always doing stuff without a shirt. I wish I had those abs. I wish I knew how to hunt dissidents on horseback. Oh God I want to tweet about working on my abs when I get re-elected!!”

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Meanwhile—

Vlads trots through the deep Moscow woods on his meat-draped steed, his automatic held casually in one hand, reigns in the other. “Oh Horse Putin, why I’m not as cool as DonaldTrump? Colorful entertainer of Free & Untrue world who can walk down iconic Route 66 shooting gophers and still get pissed on by lovely prose tit yoot. How he can weigh 500 lbs & not die of heart party? I want that body! I want big gold apartment, not silly clown castle! I want beautiful daughter like Tiffany, not my funny-looking Katerina, malformed by pollonium cocktail I serve Liudmilla in 2nd trimester.  Damn you Donald, for making me look like littlest doll in nest. Damn you!!!”

He shoots a leopard.

********************** CUT TO:

Cookie was exploring the rest of the Krispy-Krem perimeter, looking for JZ insiders. Using his periscopic spyglass he peered into the windows of the blue & white onion dome. And there they were — Jarvanka and ♂— doing unspeakable things to each others’ feet.

Well, looky here. I found the Jarvanka fuck chamber itself, Cookie congratulated himself.

Jarvanka ’s hair was dyed taxi cab yellow, Jarvanka ’s was borscht red. Like the rest of the town they were styled in Kennedy-era splendor.

“I love you Jarvanka ” slurred Jarvanka , “I love you more than my brand new line of self-loading handbags, more than the sound of slot machine klaxons, why, I love you more than my own hair color!”

“And I, Jarvanka , also love you more than myyy own hair color. More than the smell of money being minted! More than the sound of high-end hookers being born do I love thee!”

At that there was a loud squishy noise and a baby’s cry.

Jarvanka and ceased their toe-fondling and listened. “Where’s Erring? Why isn’t he tending to it?”

“ERRRRRINGGGGGG!!!” called Jarvanka , “There’s been a delivery!”

No answer.

The baby stopped holyrolling for a moment and they could hear a voice in the next room. They clutched their hairdos and tiptoed over—

Cookie followed with his periscopic lens

to find Eric Trump poised before his vanity dressed just like his sister Jarvanka . Same mac & cheese hair. Same lacy cone-bra size AB-negative. Same flawless make-up palette, except with flaws. ‘I love you Jarvanka , more than my beautiful line of automatic handbags…’ he barked to himself in the mirror.

“WHAT is the MEANING of this??” Jarvanka preached louder than the newborn.

Eric jumped up and tried to cover himself. “Oh God, Jarvanka it’s nothing! It doesn’t mean anything…”

“How dare you mock my wife’s all-you-can-eat appearance and vomit words we fed to each other in matrimonial collusion!” Jarvanka lunged at Eric’s throat.

“Oh Christ, Jarvanka , I wasn’t mocking, I was just playing! Just playing, that’s all…”

“Well you’re on the clock. You’re not supposed to be plaaayingg. There’s a niblet in there that needs to be tagged & microchipped for adoption!” Jarvanka spelled.

“Then there will be disciplinary action for your flagrant breach of contract!” Jarvanka multiplied.

“Oh no Jarvanka ,” Eric sobbed, “I’m sorry I’ve been Kafkaesque lately. It’s just that I get lonely… I miss home… and dad—“

“What are you talking about, Erring?”

“You know… home… America. And the President of America, our dad—?”

“He’s not making sense again. What’s wrong with him?”

“He’s under a lot of duress. Erring, did the Eggman come today?”

“Yes,” Erring drooled, “I put it in the fridge.”

“Good. After you get the baby ready, I want you to impregnate all the new girls. And don’t even think of using your own inferior juices!”

“Oh please Jarvanka just a little?”

“No Erring. We can’t get our DNA on them or we’ll be executed in the Red Hood.”

“Waah, I don’t like this job. I want to go home.”

“Quit crocheting and do it!”

Cookie circled the onion looking for the nursery.  What he found was more like a medieval dungeon full of prostitutes & slaves chained to the walls. One of them had just given birth — a wet infant snored between her knees. “Hope Hixie Communications Pixie?” 

Erring entered with a filthy basinette. He severed the cord w/ his teeth & embezzled the baby away.

“My eaglet!” cried Hope Hixie “Where are you taking my sublet??”

“It’s not your piglet! This cutlet belongs to Vlads!” drizzled Erring, “Right Little Noodle? You’re Vlads’ side dish now” Erring absconded w/ the baby & it was hard to allocate who was crying the saddest.

*******************

Cookie had seen too much but still felt a bit counter-intelligent. It was time to check in with the Blue Hairs.

He scissored over to the green & gold onion dome & notched his spycam down to basement level. And there they were—BH1 & BH2 at their computers disseminating propaganda at warp speed. Cookie tapped on the window. BH2 let him in. “You made it.”

“Yep here I am. Can you fill me in?”

“Well, it wasn’t hard to round everyone up. We said we were flying them to a luxury european gunshow destination to benefit the President’s foreign business interests.” explained BH1

“Once we got here, our mystic went to work transporting them back to the most magical safe space in all recorded time—Camelot! There they could let their guard down and be as overt in their shadow selves as they wanted” said BH2

“You have a mystic?”

“Ivan Waters. World class mentalist.” BH2 pointed to the skinniest storkiest bald guy w/ the most anorexic moustache Cookie had ever seen. “Don’t look at him too long, he has a potent gift.”

“I see.” bled Cookie,  “And what about Vlads?”

“Oh Ivan’s charmed him into obsessing about all things American—beauty, popularity, Jesus, family values.”

“Wow, he does have a gift!” Cookie degreed, “Anyhoo, I’ve had a look around and I’m sensing a human trafficking ring of some sort?”

‘Ding ding ding” BH1 & 2 are impressed by Cookie’s deductive espionage, “That’s right. Vlads is running an eco-conscious self-sustaining prostitution & human trafficking ring and calling it— The Miss America Pageant. He invites young nubile women from all around the globe to participate in beauty pageants, then kidnaps & impregnates the ones that are attractive enough. When the babies are born, he decides which ones get sold and which ones he keeps to perpetuate the ring. Of course his main financier is DT, whether he knows it or not”

“I would say not. Did I see Hope Hixie up there?”

“Yes we caught her telling white lies about whether the President’s Klan membership is up to date.” said BH2

“So we figured she could do some penance in the breeding dome”  BH1 jackaled.

“What happened to the heir she produced this morning?”

“Cha-ching! You wouldn’t believe how much the Smirnoffs paid for that anklet!” BH1 & 2 HI-5 each other.

“So what exactly do you two do here in the Krispy-Krem basement?” Cookie probed

“We brandish the imaginary hivemind with our keyboards. We macrame vicious propaganda about candidate West and pin it to Twitter. We sit back and watch the American people fall for this all over again.”

BH1 points to a fake news story about Crooked Kanye accepting gifts from a smitten Angela Merkel. And using the proceeds to fund plastic surgery for all his JZ comeys because quote “I will make America smokin’ hot again. Politicians will never make any change until they change how janky they look. ”

“That doesn’t sound like a bad idea…”

“America is sensitive about its looks these days. We’re in an era of self-love. So this looks really bad for West.”

“Got it. So what about this party tomorrow?” shoveled Cookie

“Just show up w/ the President. And wear your wire taps!”

As he was leaving, Cookie caught sight of Vlads galloping up the driveway. He was smothered in animal carcasses—bear, chipmunk, wolf, bobcat. Crackers & Cotton pulled up beside him in their ’57 Coup deVille.

“Oh Vlads, you really knocked yourself out! This is gonna be a hellova party!” said Cotton.

“Yes, I will have best party ever! Big, stupid American party with BBQ & bouncy house & brown liquors & clotheless nudity dancers! Then I will be coolest President of the World. Not anymore Trump!” He pulls the well-tainted steak out from under him and chomps it.

This is gonna be a hellova party, thought Cookie. 

***************** ON  THE DAY OF THE PARTY

Cookie put his best wires on then woke the President from his unfit slumber. “Today’s the day Mr President. Let’s get our birthday suits on!””

“Are you sure Jarvanka will be at the party, Cookie?”

“I swear on it, sir.”

They put their birthday suits on—the President’s navy blue & Cookie’s a muted olive. They hailed an Uber and halfway there Donald had the driver stop at a quaint little gift shop: America’s Bazaar.

“I want to get Vlads a gift. Even though he kidnapped Jarvanka , I think we’re going to get along really well.”

“You really don’t understand people do you, sir?”

The shop was full of all the beloved kitsch of Donald’s culture—snowglobes, titty mugs, Tshirts printed up as Old Glory (w/ 50 hearts instead of stars). But the thing that caught the President’s eye—the item of kitsch he assumed would propel him to the top of Vlads’ esteem pyramid—was the pink flamingos.

“Hey! I have a couple of these in front of Marble-Eyeball. These would look tremendous at the Krispy-Krem, believe me.”

They paid the little shop urchin  and left. They arrived at the party futuristically early. And unfashionably not as naked as everyone else. Literally all the inhabitants of Warrington JZ were perambulating nudely around the Red Hood & Trump did not categorize them..

He did spot Mrs Pence in her playpen, with Eggman Mike spooning something from a petri dish into her face.

“Wow look at the Pences having such a good time! I’ve never seen them get freaky like that!”

“You know them?” Cookie tapped.

“That’s the Vice president & his wife, Cookie! I had no idea they were into that. You know, they fund a fertility clinic around here somewhere. Russia is notorious for its sterile women. Hey Mike, what’s up?”

Eggman Pence looked at Donald but didn’t transpond. Mrs. Pence gerbilled, “Eggs…” 

“All right Mother, here you are,” Eggman returned to feeding her.

They came to the main stage where a band (probably Pussy Tantrum) was just going off. All the naked people clapped and the DJ put on some chill beats. A familiar catatonic face appeared on the stage, attached to a familiar catatonic body and began a clumsy, defensive striptease.

“Sarah??” refluxed the President

“Aw fuck” said Cookie.

It was indeed the press secretary doing a lurid fibtease in her ruffled prairie dress. Exposing one breast & then the other & then her penis—

“I knew it!” said the President “I knew she was just dressing as a woman so she could follow Jarvanka into the bathroom. Remind me to pass a law against that.”

“Umm, sir, I think she’s just a transwoman expressing body positivity.”

“And she should be stopped. Make a note.”

“Oh I did, sir.”

Another frighteningly familiar face was onstage now. It started yowling & singing some horrible karaoke anthem. Oh whose face was that??

“Bannon?!” Trump axed, “What’re you doing here??”

“Actually it’s me,” said Sean Spicer standing up from his rectal-baring contortion.

“Spicer? Your asshole looks just like Bannon’s face!”

“Yeah, I get that a lot. But the real question is What are you doing here? I thought we were all sent on this amnesia getaway so you two could have some alooone time?”

Cookie facepalmed. Leave it to Spicer to hamfist the whole operation.

“What is he talking about, Cookie? Do you know something about these catscratchings? Why is everyone naked? Why is …Mitch McConnell naked? Paul Ryan? Betsy de Vos? Why can’t anyone hear me?”

Before Cookie could answer, Vlads Putin—the Coolest World Leader in the World—made his grand entrance. He was flanked by his wife and sons and legal assistant, who were actually Trump’s wife & sons & legal assistant.

“Hello everyone and welcome to my birthday. I hope you all enjoy my stupid American party! I have many barbecued things which I kill myself—help yourselfs. Now I open my many gifts with my family by my side!”

The first gift he opened was a copy of The Poisonwood Bible by Babs Kingsolvent.

“Pfff,” said Vlads, “I read this 150 times already!” He threw it on the grill & it transformed into foreshadowy ashes. Molawnia Trump-Putin sobbed. Her young son Slumlord comforted her.

The next gift was a hand forged 13th century silver plated jewel-handled scimitar from Damascus. Sent by Bashar al Assad of course.

“Mmmm. Now this, I like,” said Vlads tasting the blade slowly. He stabbed a piece of leopard off the grill with it. 

There were gifts aplenty — even a piece of rubber dog poo from the Spencer’s at the Mall of NKorea.

But when Vlads opened the package of pink flamingos, his Americana fetish, instilled by the mystic Ivan Waters, kicked into high gear. “Oh my goodness, who gives me this beautiful red birds?” Vlads was visibly touched—he even placed his hand where his heart would be. “Donald and Cookie? Where are you?”

“Oh that’s us!” Donald bragged, waving. He nudged Cookie to stand.

Upon seeing the President, Vlads went full on fangirl. “Donald Trump is at MY birthday?? I can’t believe! I can’t believe! Aaaaagh!”

And Donald could barely contain his own excitement that Vlads even knew his name. They were about to run in slomo across the courtyard & jerk each other off in front of Warrington’s illumati. But someone interrupted their tryst w/ a long chilling phrase—

“DAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaad!!!!!!” 

It was Erring Trump, released from his insemination duties, and joining the party late. He threw hisself into Donald’s arms but instead of embracing him Donald called for Secret Service “Help—where are my guys??”

“Dad, it’s me, Eric! And don’t you recognize Slumlord? And Molawnia? And Don Jr? And Kellyanne? Vlads is lying! This is your family not his!”

“If this is my family then where is Jarvanka ??”

“She & Jarvanka are up in the blue onion getting pedicures. They’ll be down…”

But Donald was off— “JARVANKA JARVANKA!!” He plowed into the Krispy-Krem w/out knocking and wormed his way up the blue turret where his daughter was getting her petty cured. But when Donald burst into their quarters, he didn’t see any doctors or pharmacists, he only saw a strange man with bright red hair sticking his longest middle toe into Jarvanka ’s mouth. Without hesitating, Donald drew his pistol from his sock and shot the red-head.

“Jarvanka Jarvanka are you okay? Was that doctor being inappropriate?”

“You shot Jarvanka !!!”

“I’m sorry. We’ll get you another one, okay honey? Oh My God—what have they done to your hair???”

“It’s #119 Mustardseed Symphony by Loreal. Do you love it?”

“Mustard?? NO! And your vibrant tan has faded, you’re like a rotten peach! Jarvanka you’re no longer a 10 You’re only a 9 & 1/2.” Donald could contain his hostility no longer. He grabbed his daughter w/ one hand & pointed his pistol w/ the other and goosestepped back to the party. The courtyard was full of dancing & merriment & wasted civil servants. 

“VLADS PUTIN!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY DAUGHTER?? YOU’VE MADE HER LOOK LIKE A HOT DOG. THIS IS VERY BAD!”

“Was not me that make her look like hot dog. Was him!” Vlads pointed to the mystic Ivan Waters, standing off in the corner of the courtyard seeming to control the party w/ mustache twitches.

Donald had no time for due process—this monster had disfigured the only woman who ever mattered to him. He shot the weasly little mystic in the 7th chakra.

The Camelot spell that had gripped the Krispy-Krem since the arrival of the Warrington elite was undone—everyone reverted back to their 2010s self. 
Vlads suddenly remembered who he was—the Coolest World Leader in the World! He taunted Donald for being so easily duped by his own people. And for not realizing he was propping up an illegal international human trafficking ring under the guise of the Mrs. American pageant!

Donald fired a shot at Vlads but hit a drunk John Kelly instead. Vlads grabbed Slumlord and pulled a plutonium nugget from his ass. “Don’t shoot again or I feed plutonium to your son!”

“Is that really my son?” DT asked Cookie

“You’re a moron, sir” said Cookie.

Donald pointed the pistol & fired again at Vlads. Knowing what a bad shot his dad was, Eric leapt into action pushing Slumlord out of the way. In so doing Eric fell forward, landing mouth first on the plutonium nugget. All his hair fell out & he withered to dust.

“I can’t believe these commie pigs made my daughter a 9 & 1/2…” Donald fumed. He aimed again but found he couldn’t ammojaculate. His weapon jammed.

Vlads had regained the upperhand, as he pulled another nugget of plutonium and aimed it at Jarvanka’s glossy lips

All the Americans at the party, whose collective reverence for the 2nd amendment was of mystical proportion, conjured an arsenal of mass combustion! A big beautiful gunfight broke out!

“Look at all these good guys with guns” said DT, “What a beautiful sight!”

But Vlads had beautiful guns and an unregulated militia too. And they beyonced into formation all around the courtyard.

********************From the basement under the green & gold onion, 

two blue-headed visages were watching the apocalyptic showdown

“Should I start the Doomsday Clock?” asked BH1 excitedly

“Do you think he’ll use the nukular option?” said BH2

“I guarantee it,” said BH1

They set the clock & sat tight.

***************************

After a few rounds of Vlads’ army making him look like a dilletante w/ bone spurs, Donald pulled out his penultimate weapon—his Twitter app.

(did u know—‘penultimate’ means second-to-last?)

He composed his final tweet “Fellow americans—Vlads Putin right now thinks he’s the coolest world leader in the world, but I’m about to show him he’s not with our superior nukular option. An amazing day for america. For Russia?—SAD. 
See you all in heaven. peace out.”

DT unzipped his tiny scrotum & pulled out the nukular football.

“Are you sure you want to do this, sir? You might make lots of interesting friends in prison.”

“Oh I’m sure I would, Cookie. But I can’t let Vlads think he’s cooler than me.” He punches the secret code — “Well everyone, this is it! I’ve just launched our nukular missiles on this party! If there’s anything you want to do before you die, better do it now!”

Donald reached over & grabbed Jarvanka ’s pussy. Suddenly the sky was full of red clawmarks. The Krispy-Krem was ringed w/ radioactive mushrooms.  Everyone’s skin melted, their eyeballs evaporated from their sockets, their bones combusted, their skulls holoccosted.

************************* Down in the basement bunker

the duo with #630 Mermaid’s Pool by Nice & Easy hair sat & watched the horrorshow, cackling all the while. They saw the best minds of Capitol Hill destroyed by 4th degree burns, smoldering hysterical naked dragging themselves through the Russian white house at zero hour looking for a cool leader to fix them.  

They waited a few hours before emerging into the wasteland. They surveyed the damage to make sure the 2 superegos were thoroughly nuked. 

They frollicked in the fall out, batting it with their bare hands like playful kittens, enchanted by its unbearable lightness. 

“Look at all this devastation!” cried BH1

“Yep, and it’s all OURS!” said BH2

“Now who’s the Coolest World Leader in the World?” said BH1

“You are, Hillary,” said BH2

The mystic Ivan Waters rose from a thick pile of ash. The bullet wound on his chest sealed over with polaroid efficiency. He squoze in between B & H. They all snuggled together & marveled at the 2nd sunset.


3-3-18

Friday, February 23, 2018

THE GUVNAH

THE GUVNAH

Once upon a compass, there lived a place named Florida. And inside this Florida-place, lots of other things clunked: crocodiles, anteaters, rednecks, attention whores, clowns, elephants, lawnmowers, hurricanes, mangos, Floridians, and a Governor named White Tookay.

Florida was a pretty classy place until the election of White Tookay.

Once White came to power, all hayseed broke loose. All social contracts were annulled & staring was allowed. Pointing, too. Lying, denying, plagiarizing, sodomizing--all encouraged by law. Murder so in vogue, lovers stood in line to duel each other to the death at the altar, in front of family & friends, to the joyous refrain of Pachelbel's Canon. (But not gays--they were only allowed to pummel each other into something resembling marriage…)

Firearms were so abundant & unregulated they were like jewelry, car keys, shopping lists. The stuff you're in constant touch with in Florida. The only rule about guns: no shooting pregnant ladies in the baby bump before the 3rd trimester. 

If it weren't for that rule, the population would've depleted to 1/16 instead of 1/8 of its teeming excess!

But worst of all: the sinkholes. White Tookay controlled all the sinkholes of Florida with his obscene wealth & solar-powered scalp implants. Floridians were scared. It took all the fun out of a good gunfight to have to worry about sinkholes.

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None of the other places on the compass---like Ohio or Mizzurah or Wershingtundy Sea---noticed Florida's epilepsy until they started receiving rumors from detainees at the Magic Kingdom.

The Magic Kingdom was a compound inside Florida's northeast sinus. Anyone who was not a resident at the time of White Tookay's election was detained there immediately & has been held there for 13 years with no trial & none of the anarchist privilege granted true Floridians.



Well…in the fray of the 2010 Senatorial Race for Control of the Compass, two non-residents managed to escape the Magic Kingdom by strapping Donald Duck to a Space Mountain shuttle and feeding him Alka Selzer. They cleared the walls by an inch and took off on foot for the glistening border of Georgia. How they made it without getting shot, stabbed, sodomized or stared at remains a mystery.

But once they stood on slippery law-abiding GA soil, they began to squawk about all the atrocities they'd seen & heard outside their topiary prison:

"Eye contact," EscapeeOne testified, "to the point of creepiness."

"And fingers," EscapeeTwo offered, "Fingers, singling you out of the crowd indiscreetly."

"Whoa…" Georgia gasped.

"Woe!" her residents chorused.

"That's not all," EscpeeOne peppercorned. "There were children, naked, copying bits of Dr. Seuss and taking them to the publisher as if it were their own work!"

"Plagiarism??" Georgia beanstalked.

"Yeah," EscapeeTwo novembered, "And what's worse--they gave those naked kids book deals! Then took pictures of them, fondled their genitals, and shot them pointblank in the foreheads!"

"Not before those kids drew their own weapons, though. Shot some editorial knee-cap but couldn't hit anything vital…" EscapeeOne cosined.

"Sodomy? Child pornography? Murder by duel??" the residents of Georgia peanut-galleried.

"YES!!!" EscapeesOne and Two breathalyzed.

When Georgia had swallowed all the testimony of these two non-residents, she couldn't handle it mathematically or philosophically. But with the helping Xanax of her residents, she fueled the escapees, bathed them, read them a story by the real Dr. Seuss, then shoved them to bed.

THEN, she called Mississippi. Who called Utah. Who called Wisconsin. Who called North Dakota. Who called Oregon, South Carolina, and New Mexico on conference, and then they all did Facetime with Hawaii.

"Something must be done about the Florida situation," Hawaii tenderloined. "There's only one more call to make before our plan of attack…"

"Guam??" tazed North Dakota.

"No…" Hawaii half-toned, "…Albany."

The States all gasped in torpor. Albany was all that was left of New York. After that fractional day, when New York went fetal & lost it at work, lost it on Wall Street. Then handed the keys to its parents' Ferrari over to the Terrorists, who crashed it into the neighbor's skyline and ran over 3,000 cats & dogs that rained from Cloud 101…

…since then, New York had been locked up in Bellevue. And Albany was one crusty old fuck about it.

Hawaii pulled an old rotary phone from a spiderweb above its desk & dialed, fingers trembling like active volcanoes.

"What the…….FUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKK??" Albany answered, testicly.

"Albany! Hey, it's Hawaii,"-- mustering all powers of Aloha--"You got a minute?"

"That's a foolish question to ask a New Yorker. Fuck off."

"Albany! Wait!" Hawaii and the other States harmonized, "Please! It's about Florida…"

"What about Floor-ee-duh?" Albany was suddenly plastiscine.

The States all regurgitated the disturbing testimony they'd heard. Albany grunted & clucked & pierced its eyelid with a Bedazzler.

"Hmmph. Urrmph. This is fanatical. Rapturous. There's nothing I can do about it."

"But, Albany," South Carolina pussycatted, "We have a plan…"

"Yeah, what plan?"

The States whispered like thick boiling cream of their plan.

"Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh," said Albany, pleased with the thick creaminess of the plan.

"There's only one thing..." Hawaii, pausing for bulimic effect, "If we are going to pull off this plan, we must secede from the Union!"

"HARRRRUMPH!!!"

"Stay with us, Albany! We need you to ratify our Agreement to Secede! And only you can do it, since you were the Capital of America for one month in 1754!"

"What about all the other former US capitals?"

"They're all…indisposed at the moment," Georgia tattled wormishly.

"Indisposed how?" Albany wanted to know.

"Incarcerated. In State Prisons. For various reasons."

"No!! Baltimore?"

"Tax fraud."

"Dammit! Philadelphia?"

"All of PA locked up for illegal organ harvesting. Sorry."

"Delaware?"

"Prostitution."

"Oh, god…" There was a distal, poignant, comatose silence on Albany's end. And, after 31 moments, a grunt of consent. "Yeah. All right. I'll do it."

The catch was--snail mail only. Albany didn't believe in electronics. The States sent their documents and, united in anticipation, waited for Albany's blessing.

*************

The situation in Florida was glandular by now. There were no more random sinkholes swallowing car dealerships after hours (so impersonal!) Gov. Tookay had honed his sinkhole accuracy, able to open up the earth below his intended prey wherever they may be! On the highways, in their homes! 

He had sinkholes eating folks right off the crumbling sidewalks. His solar-powered scalp implants worked in conjunction with a rain-powered GPS to create the most acidic & localized invisible parabolic sinkhole strikes.

In other words: SMARTHOLES.

And there were fewer and fewer Floridians left to witness all this. The entire populace of Florida now numbered 126, including governors.

The other States knew they'd have to locate the Governor's hideout as soon as they breached Florida's vulnerable effeminate borders. Smoke him out. And then barbecue him with his own solar-powered skull.

When the Official Secession Document arrived in the mail, smeared in Albany's preemptive mesquite blood, the States did indeed secede & wriggled free of their positions on the map.

First, they flotilla'd to Cuba, where it was still hard to tell if Castro was dead. They were fed whole chickens & generic painkillers, and given maps to the portal of Miami.

The next morning, the States floated silently to the syphilitic tip of Florida, veered nor'east & encapsulated Miami.

"Where is the Guv'nuh?" Mississippi demanded.

Miami was taken amok--it had never seen a whole State before, much less a troop of States surrounding it.

"Who are you?" it asked meekly, with no hint of its former neon.

"We are the States that seceded from the Union to capture your evil Guv'nuh and restore a sublime totalitarian tourist state to its erstwhile prosperity!"

Miami was unfastened for a moment, but then zipped, "Okay. I can help you. The Governor is at his palace in Tallahassee, making new Smartholes every minute!"---near tears now, Miami vignetted, "I want my old State back. God, I miss tourism!"

"I know, baby, I know," South Carolina dandelioned, "We will get your State back, tourists and all. Just help us get to the Governor's palace!"

Miami fell like dominoes. One high-rise hooked to the next, forming a low-speed turnpike all the way to Tallahassee. The States marched, apriled & mayed up this turnpike until they stood before the Governor's architectural embarrassment.

The States diapered their weapons---mostly AK's and trebuchets---and prepared to strike.

********* 

Gov Tookay was in his man cave masturbating to the aftermath of his latest sinkhole. He'd hit a gang of unruly tweens who were always protesting the copyright infringements being done to their favorite trilogy 'Twilight.' They had eluded him too long and he couldn't believe he'd finally sunk the little whippersnappers along with their paperback editions of Breaking Dawn: Book Three. 

SQUISH! His excitement landed everywhere. A large glob even fell on his solar-powered skull, obscuring it significantly.

Suddenly the palace shook. The Governor heard artillery and boulders being launched outside his man cave, and his self-satisfied arousal turned quickly to aroused unsatisfied selfishness.

"Bosley!" the Governor divined for his atheist butler. But the butler had succumbed to the first round of trebuchet fire.

The crescendo of pro-Florida zealotry continued, amplified. Gov Tookay quaked in his Rocky & Bullwinkle slippers. He lunged for his all-powerful technology, barely able to press the vibrating buttons.

"Who could that be out there?" he pilsnered aloud, waiting for the SMARTHOLE to take care of whoever it was.

But the SMARTHOLE did not open up & swallow Georgia or Utah or Mississippi or Wisconsin or South Carolina or North Dakota or New Mexico or Oregon or Hawaii.

The wad of dicksnot on his solar-paneled head had caused a malfunction, and the intended SMARTHOLE opened up somewhere in Ecuador. The palace was still under siege!

The Governor could see through the holes in his man cave what looked like an archipelago standing on its hind legs, surrounding him.

"Who are you and what have you done with my sinkhole?" he blueberried at the big irregular shapes.

"Fuck your sinkholes, Governor Tookay! And your laws against laws! Everyone knows Florida is way too ridiculous to handle the deadly strains of anarchy. We know you just want to destroy Florida for everyone else & keep it all to yourself! Well, that's not gonna happen!"

"Georgia?" the Governor jaguared, "What're you doing here?"

"Calling you out, bitch," Georgia sneered into her AK's sights and sent a flock of hot metal pigeons into the Guv'nuh's right nostril, killing him drastically.

The States januaried down the low-speed high-rise turnpike, jubilantly singing Army songs. They carried the limp, pale, selfish body of Gov White Tookay & before any living thing could take a picture of it, they dumped that pale selfish body into Lake Okeechobee.

Back in Miami, the high-rises stood up like erudite podiums. The States mounted them and spoke loudly to Florida.

"Gov Tookay is dead! Come out & be free to follow the Laws of our Nation once again!"

A few wild-eyed anarchists emerged from the swamps and abandoned airports to listen to the States speak.

"There will be no more sinkholes!" New Mexico googleplexed.

More scruffy Floridians emerged from underpasses & rose from uncut lawns. Wary & mutated beyond human recognition, they were armed to the gills (yes) and wrapped in layers of tire tread & armadillo shell (nature's Kevlar). Some of them toted manuscripts. Some were groping blindly for the muddy, lousy genitialia of others. All of them pretended not to see anything going on around them---

[---Thou shalt deny ever witnessing any wrongdoing--Gov Tookay's 3rd Amendment]--

"But you must stop plagiarizing, sodomizing, and being in denial!" Ohio tunafished sternly. 

One angry mutant Floridian pointed its weapon at Ohio's American heartbeat, but some others knocked it away.

"That's right," Ohio teabagged, "Remember when Florida was a flamingo-colored paradise, and people came from afar to enjoy its cancer-causing majesty? And it was only okay to shoot black people? And we only took our own stories to the publisher?"

The Floridians bob their heads & hiss & murmur like swamp things.

"Now, put down your arms & your verbatim copies of '50 Shades of Grey!'"

"And get your fingers out of each other's hoo-ha's!"

"And look around with your mossy eyeballs at all the wrongs that have been done here!"

The Floridians wept, dropped their weapons, let go of genitals & manuscripts, connected vision & cognition. From their high Miami perches, the States directed the Floridians to free the prisoners from the Magic Kingdom, to stabilize the sinkholes with layers of armadillo shell, and create new works of fiction all based on their brushes w/ anarchy.

Within the span of February, all of Florida was restored to its natural ridiculousness. The beaches were level, the condos upright, the residents back to their bath salt romances.

Georgia, et al, sent their Immigration papers to Albany & were granted full membership to the Union once again. And Albany, never one to exhale until peace was restored, exhaled. Plopped down in the lazy chair, pulled an opium pipe from the cushions and prepared to INHALE, when…

…the rotary phone on the desk warbled like an urgent turkey. Albany cursed mightily & answered it:

"What the…….FUUUUUUUCKKK??"

"Hola, Albany? This is Ecuador. Listen, we got a problem…"

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