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HAMLET’S LAST SOLILIQUY

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TWITTER-DIPLOMACY

 

History is His story. Education’s alchemy. Hindsight’s 20-20. There’s wisdom in irony.

And behavior mod’s not limited to individuals, only.

Five pithy statements in one hundred and forty characters. And, in this ode to poetry,

to wisdom, and to peace, a final plea, for humanity.

Dreaming of what is, what was and what may be, the learned literati, of all of history,

luminaries like Plato, Aristotle Locke and Socrates …

… Shakespeare and Shaw in western lands and their eastern peers, Lao-zi, Kong-fu-zi,

Muhammad, Buddha and Gandhi, visionarily, see.

The luminaries see folly; their own, of course, but more importantly, that of humanity.

And lately they see, a still-born, twitter-diplomacy.

A still-born twitter-diplomacy? ‘Twitter-diplomacy’ is a term of only recent coinage. It’s

not taken seriously, notwithstanding its algorithms.

Algorithms are procedures or formulas for solving problems. They are quite simply, in

non-scientific jargon, step by step … instructions.

 

THE WATCHER

 

A synchronicity of events, pursuant to His grand plan, has brought three brothers grim,

Don, Art and the Kim, to do what’s been bidden, by Him.

It happened that Penemue, a Watcher Angel fallen, for his own God-damned salvation’s

sake, googled for a weakling to propose to, his salvation.

It was Penemue who, the Bible says, “pointed out to them every secret of their wisdom.”

He taught (wo)men on using ink and paper for writing,

It has been Penemue (Pen, to us), who has been the master of ceremonies at the nightly

soirees, where deceased visionaries envision, via poetry.

In reveries, dreamy and soirees, Victorian, history’s philosophers, poets, and luminaries

with the megalomaniacs Kim, Don and Art, nightly meet.

He googled too for great poets to write in collaboration with the megalomaniacal brothers,

to all the nations, of an alchemical algorithm, on Twitter.

“Tweet, blog and write alchemically,” said Penemue, to the brothers, three. “Algorithmically

tweet epigrams, into transformational, BUT pacific, poetry.”

 

PENEMUE’S PLAN

 

“Tweet blog and pen, Kim, Don and Art, in the ‘twitterese’ that I, Penemue, the last Watcher,

taught ye; an Esperanto-like hope, an Esperanto-like prayer.”

“Pangaea’s nations number 196 (not including Taiwan and tiny Puerto Rico), 4200 religions,

and 6500 languages; verily, ye must evolve to a single nation.”

Twitterese came easiest to Art. Administration came easiest to Kim. Spelling was Donny’s

forte. Penemue organized his Liberation Force, accordingly.

To attend to national affairs of state, Kim and Don ceded to their weakling brother, Arthur

the penning of epigrams. Kim sees to invites; Don to humor.

Not that the fate of the cosmos and its non-earthling inhabitants isn’t important. It is, and

they are. But we’ll get to them later. First, the nation-lands.

Nations are the constructs by which men, in vain, attempt to govern themselves, a natural

evolution from nuclear families, clans and tribes, aboriginal.

EARTHLINGS: HUMOR, ART (as amended 4-9-17)

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“The Western-educated and American pop culture obsessed Kim, IS really ready to deal

with Don and Art. Last night, Kim told them, Let’s make a deal.”

“Another once wrote on behalf of ‘deal artist’ Donny that in the making of a great deal,
‘The worst of  times often create the best opportunities to make good deals.’”
“Donny  says missile strikes carry a message for others. He didn’t specify brother Kim
but the context was clear. Some would be well, rid of him.”
“This is why Art knows intimately how Kim is reacting to the threats he perceives he
receives, for Donny’s reputation is as fox, crafty, and crazy.”
“And so came to commune Kim’s veteran presidency, Donny’s brand-new presidency
 and Art’s presidency of the Chachomanopapa School of Poetry.”
“For Art’s soliloquy, timeless, and timely, is surreally timed to coincide with Donny’s
 new presidency and Kim’s, now veteran, presidency.”

“Now Syria, AND Korea. And if irony had a sound, its sound aught render humanity

 speechless ’til all hear Art’s soliloquy, timeless, and timely.”

“For Donald John Trump, the megalomaniacal brother of Kim Jong-un, and Arthur Everman, in Syria, moved a hand, small, but powerful.”

“The POTUS’ hand, small for a large man, ironically may be, disproportionately large
 for a small man. And small men with power, get giddy.”
“Tweet, blog and pen alchemical algorithms to all of humanity.” Could these words
answer 12-21-12’s question? Were they, the words?
The question that Friday had been, “What ten words do ye bequeath to humanity”?
It had been an (anti) climactic Friday, apparently.
However, it was a subtly eventful galactic alignment; as befitting an event recurring
 but every 28,500 years; ever ebbing and flowing.
For it has been since precisely then when Kim Jong-un, the Donny and Art Everman,
thunder-stricken, gather nightly, in communion.
 “China will either help us with Kim Jong un’s North Korea or they won’t,” the POTUS
 said in the Oval Office, presiding there, over US.
“If they do that’ll be good for China. If they don’t it won’t be good for anyone,” verily,
seemingly, sinisterly, hissed shape-shifter, Donny.
The POTUS has made clear that he’d deal with Kim Jong-un with or without the help
of Xi,’s China. He’ll warmonger,  with Bannon’s, help.

“If Xi’s China is not going to solve North Korea, then we will. That’s all I’m telling you.

Except, that is, that I’m building a wall for all to view.

The planet’s richest tongue (by word count), owes its wealth to its liberal borrowing,

from other languages, and history’s mystical, timing.

English is the Earth’s second, lingua franca. Now spoken globally, its rich vocabulary

is at home in song, psalm, prose, tweet … or poetry.

It may be there are more English-speaking Chinese, than Americans. More Chinese

than Americans may discern a twit … from a tweet.

Tweet is oft understood; but twit? Not as often. Twits are taunts. To twit is s to titter

or taunt. Hmm; why then Twitter, and not, Tweeter?

Alternatively, a twit is a silly, annoying, person, or fool. How appropriate that a twit

tweets on Twitter; a fool has fooled us, sans wit, albeit.

Why Twitter, and not Tweeter, albeit an intriguing riddle, is not the point, in debate.

The point is the twit, that has been, a tweeter of late.

The twit that tweets promises, that if he dupes the US, the American people, a wall,

he’ll build, women, he’ll cherish and books, he’ll sell.

A real tweet 09/06/15, by ‘co’-author Tony Schwartz, on his book’s real authorship:

“I wrote The Art of the Deal. Donald Trump read it.”

Don’t be so sad. Look at the bright side; for Donny’s legacy may well be the liberal

and conservative wings, of a Democratic Party, multilingual.

Be careful what you wish for US of America, for the tweeting twit is an opportunist;

and he is, in this tragi-comedy, no mere apprentice.

Indeed, what is humorous may be gravely serious; to wit, an ugly-American-in-chief

who aimed to be President, now is, the Commander-in-Chief.

What once seemed so preposterous as to be laughable is now, no laughing matter;

that notwithstanding his tweets, and his golden showers.

But fear not, US, of America; for the mutant mouth that is the Donny’s outstanding

feature promises that sooner or later, we’ll impeach him.

Truth & Reconciliation (the Movie?)

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A #twitterfiction-al rendition of AN ATLAS POETIC; on His story, history, anarchy,

wannabes, alchemy and synergy, in epic poetry. CHAPTER 13

God/ Allah/Jehovah/Yahweh’s children, brother-sister-(wo)men, in #twitterfiction,

aught pray cc: @CNN for wisdom’s Truth and Reconciliation.

Tajikistan’s Rudaki: Truth’s stranger than fiction in #twitterfiction-al environments.

Education’s prospering; @DisneyPixar‘s entertainment.

Vietnam’s Nguyen Du: In soirees at Arthur Everman’s pad, poets’ visions in #twitterfiction;

from every land come, poems to nations. cc: @CNN

Andorra’s Albert Salvado: Dickinson gets nod in this edition over Frost, Whitman,

Sandburg, and beloved Maya, in #twitterfiction. cc: @CNN

Neither Jesus’ miracles, nor Mohammed’s conquests nor, in #twitterfiction,

letters from dead poets, are enough to save the nations. cc: @CNN

Speaking for speakers of a King’s English, @BBCWorld and, in #twitterfiction,

Willy Shakespeare endorses, Truth and Reconciliation. cc: @CNN

In Lieu of Plan A … Plan B

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A #twitterfiction-al rendition of AN ATLAS POETIC; On history, truth and reconciliation,

His story, anarchy, wannabes, alchemy & synergy in epic poetry. CHAPTER ELEVEN

Were @uriminzok NOT to call upon the power of Truth and Reconciliation in

#twitterfiction then, in lieu of Plan A, on to … Plan B. cc: @CNN

Malaysia’s Usman Awang: In lieu of Plan A, it’s on to Plan B. In #twitterfiction,

Plan B (cc: @CNN) relies more on logic, and less on whim.

Myanmar’s Min Thu Wun: In lieu of Plan A, it’s on to Plan B. In #twitterfiction,

Plan B (cc: @CNN) relies more on logic, and less, on whim.

Nepal’s Laxmi Prasad Devkota: In lieu of Plan A, it’s on to Plan B. In #twitterfiction

Plan B (cc: @CNN) relies more on logic, less on whim.

@Uriminzok’s in the catbird-seat, in the enviable position of trading, in #twitterfiction,

a Nobel … for nuclear … non-proliferation …. cc: @CNN

Art Everman wonders if, in @LIFE & in @Time (cc: @CNN) @DisneyPixar in

#twitterfiction animates AN ATLAS, POETIC’s nonfictional … fiction.

Kim on Kim

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A #twitterfiction-al rendition of AN ATLAS POETIC; on His story, history, anarchy,

wannabes, alchemy & synergy in epic, poetry. CHAPTER NINE

So what if in #twitterfiction, something Lasix-like (@CNN) sharpened our vision?

Visionary poets, now dead, think Willy’s is a key question.

Willy’s question is an evolutionary/devolutionary dichotomy. In #twitterfiction,

his question, to be or not to be, @CNN, is too, prediction.

South Korea’s Kim Sowol: @Uriminzok considers being in @twitter‘s #twitterfiction

North Korea’s … national poet … AND … Supreme Leader. cc: @CNN

South Korea’s Kim Sowol: @Uriminzok considers being in @twitter‘s #twitterfiction

North Korea’s … national poet … AND … Supreme Leader. cc: @CNN

South Korea’s Kim Sowol: @Uriminzok considering being, in @twitter‘s #twitterfiction,

the Koreas’ … national poet … re-unifier … and … savior. cc: @CNN

One man wonders if, in @LIFE & in @Time (cc: CNN) @DisneyPixar, in #twitterfiction

animates AN ATLAS, POETIC’s … nonfictional … fiction.

To @BarackObama and @Imam_Khamenei

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A #twitterfiction-al rendition of AN ATLAS POETIC; on His story, history,

anarchy, wannabes, alchemy & synergy in epic poetry. CHAPTER EIGHT

So what if in #twitterfiction, something Lasix-like (@CNN) sharpened our vision?

Visionary poets, now dead, think Willy’s is a key question.

Willy’s question is an evolutionary/devolutionary dichotomy. In #twitterfiction,

his question, to be or not to be, @CNN, is too, prediction.

Iran’s Rumi: Unlike @BarackObama and @Imam_Khamenei but in #twitterfiction,

we dead poets see no future in nuclear proliferation (cc: @CNN).

Iraq’s Maarouf Al Rasafi: @BarackObama and @Imam_Khamenei in #twitterfiction,

dither. Better a future, of further, acculturation. (cc: @CNN)

Israel’s Hayim Nahman Bialik: Keep one eye on AN ATLAS POETIC in

#twitterfiction, and another @CNN, on peace, @JerusalemPost, in nonfiction.

One man wonders if, in @LIFE & in @Time (cc: CNN) @DisneyPixar, in #twitterfiction

animates AN ATLAS, POETIC’s … nonfictional … fiction.

On An Extraordinary Vision

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A #twitterfiction-al rendition of AN ATLAS POETIC; His story, history, truth & reconciliation,

anarchy, wannabes, alchemy and synergy in epic poetry. CHAPTER SEVEN

Like beauty vision is in the eye of the beholder. So what if in #twitterfiction,

something like Lasix @CNN sight restored to blinded humans?

And what might incredibly be if something like Lasix @CNN bestow, to (wo)men

the amplified vision … of visionaries … in #twitterfiction.

Bangladesh’s Kazi Nazrul Islam: Ironic; that homo sapiens, (s)he of color vision

sees not forests but rather trees @CNN, in #twitterfiction.

China’s Du Fu, Li Bai and Lu Xun: Ironic; humans abnegate not, in #twitterfiction,

nationalities. The paradigm matrices, imprison. cc: @CNN.

India’s Subramania Bharati: Paradigm matrices imprison (cc: @CNN); and, in

#twitterfiction a ‘lemming syndrome’, drives men to, destruction.

So what if in #twitterfiction, something Lasix-like (@CNN) sharpened our vision?

Visionary poets, now dead, think Willy’s is a key question.

A Novel Novel

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A #twitterfiction-al rendition of AN ATLAS POETIC; on His story, history, anarchy, wannabes, alchemy & synergy, in epic poetry. CHAPTER SIX

A novel novel then is this #twitterfiction-al foray into nonfictional, fiction; and, indeed … one with novel protagonists, conflicts and plot … resolution.

The social media are prominent. Albeit only secondary characters, they wield, in #twitterfiction. disproportionate impact; for they are force multipliers, in todays’, nonfictions.

Tunisia’s Aboul-Qacem Ecebbi: Wanted by Arthur Everman are visionaries in this #twitterfiction, with vision keen … so as to see … @CNN … poets’ visions.

Witness, Afghanistan’s Khushal Khattak: The dead poets’ visions are , in unison and in #twitterfiction, making of media (eg @CNN) a mouthpiece of one’s fiction.

Witness too, Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli: Indeed, by all means, make media @CNN mouthpiece by fiction. And as to why @CNN? It’s because … of course … it ends in ‘n’.

Like beauty, vision too, is in the eye of the beholder. So what if something Lasix-like (in #twitterfiction) … sharpened … our vision? cc: @CNN

On the Gigantic Role of the Megalithic Media

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A #twitterfiction-al rendition of AN ATLAS POETIC; on His story, history, anarchy, wannabes, alchemy & synergy, in epic poetry. CHAPTER FIVE:

Morocco’s Mohammed Awzal: They dreamt together, as one. And, in surreal #twitterfiction, plotted. How to, @FoxNews make Utopian fiction, nonfiction?

Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe: How to make of Utopian fiction, nonfiction? In #twitterfiction, a mission impossible, or is it? The poets’ visions:

Somalia’s Hadrawi: What if the megalithic media (the @csmonitor, for example) in #twitterfiction sparks in people, lust … for Truth and … Reconciliation.

South Africa’s Mazisi Kunene: The New Republic (@tnr) may be Earth itself … in science fiction … or, in #twitterfiction, … nonfiction … @CNN.

Sudan’s Gely Abdel Rahman: Earth may in @time come to be, in some surreal, #twitterfiction, the new republic (@tnr) in nonfiction, not, science fiction.

Tanzania’s Shaaban bin Robert: And so Allah @google-d the Zoo Crew in surreal #twitterfiction; helping Art save the planet from itself by tweets of fiction.

On Googling Intergalactics

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A #twitterfiction-al rendition of AN ATLAS POETIC; on Truth and Reconciliation; On His story, history, anarchy, wannabes, alchemy & synergy, in epic poetry. CHAPTER FOUR:

Abkhazia: Egypt’s Ahmed Shawqi: Hindsight’s 20-20. Dead poets, Allah’s children, in #twitterfiction, see the future @CNN, of Earth-bound humans.

Algeria’s Si Mohand tweets that if Allah’s children, brother and sister citizens in #twitterfiction want peace abnegate (@CNN), the nations.

Angola’s Agostinho Neto tweets that Allah’s children, brothers and sisters in #twitterfiction @AJEnglish pray for Truth, and Reconciliation.

Mali’s Fily Dabo Sissoko: That’s why Allah googled a gaggle of aged, veteran angels; to have them @CNN dream a dream … in #twitterfiction.

Why epic poetry and not traditional prose as the means, in #twitterfiction of its transmission? It’s because poetry’s more lyrical than its prosaic, cousin.