Create central intelligence:
Project/protect the fantasy
invert, convert, digest, repeat.
Cull/scourge the weak
inject, reject, regurgitate, unleash.
Fashion/impassion your guerilla army
recruit, reboot, oppress, regress, shoot.
Pile/revile trash from here to anywhere
electrify, deny, decry, undermine.
Cash/opiates paid for secrets, insert in slot
spot, capitulate, insinuate, cast aside.
Pulp/whore up those lying spies
gravitate, emulate, identify, underlie, interrogate.
Glorify, espouse, glamorize, bind, scrawl, shape, strip, demoralize, characterize
shift, shout, torture, mobilize, calculate, indoctrinate, analyze, and strategize.
Whatever you do don’t learn the language.
Begin again:
Pick a spot on the map, set traps, rehash,
espy, cartography won’t lie, transmogrify,
redefine, carve ideologies, proselytize,
intimidate, obfuscate, in an endless loop.
Disinformation can withstand the facts.
‘We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit.’
Blame Aristotle.
For a thorough history of the CIA read Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/038551445X
Chromapoetica 
This is great! Shaping the style and approach of the poem for the subject matter. You are very versatile. Well done!
Thank you, I try to keep things interesting around here. The book is well worth reading and only 700 pages!
This is very well said–all too unfortunately true as well. Learning the language makes it harder to objectify, marginalize and dehumanize, so of course you can’t do that! Looks like a good book, but I know it was a good poem–I used to write a lot with the slash when I was a sprout–it gave me a nice nostalgic glow to see it used here. (Oh and thanks for recommending the Elegance of the Hedgehog–I’m loving it.)
I’m so glad you’re loving Elegance of a Hedgehog, I read it years ago on a trip to San Francisco and was completely enthralled (which doesn’t happen often enough to me). I can’t tell if the reference to the hedgehog is Schopenhauer or D.H. Lawrence (or both, the author is a philosophy professor). You’ll have to let me know when you’re finished.
Don’t know where the poem or slash came from – one of those write me now, quick find a piece of paper, I don’t care if you need to leave for a meeting kind of poems (probably been waiting since I read the CIA book years ago). Speaking of which I have to leave for renaissance choir practice :). Thank you ever so much for stopping by to read.
Absolutely brilliant write with amazing word choice. Very, very cool.
Wow. thanks Mama Zen!
Loved the concept 🙂
Thanks Jyoti!
what fun verse, and thoughts too.
smart thinking,
we open until Friday, you can still join us for week 52 fun if you wish.
stay blessed, keep up the excellence.
Thank you, I’ve just added the pictures to the post.
Interesting. Enjoyed reading.
Check out my entry: http://wp.me/s1LMFk-749
Have done, thank you.
enjoyed it.
thanks for coming…
Happy Rally.
Happy Rally!
your words speak and make senses,
powerful and playful piece,
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the read, I’ll be by to read yours soon.
Very interesting.
Thanks!
Great job….distract by whatever means…stay focused on objective….lies must be stellar….I thank I have been guilty of several of the C.I.A tactics…lol Love your poem!!!
I love your comment! I look forward to reading your entry!
We are what we repeatedly do. A great line. k.
Yes, Aristotle was full of great lines :).
It’s like a game. The tone of it, the single words are like some kind of brainwashing technique, automaton-like. Dehumanized or inhuman. I think this reflects what scares normal everyday folk like me about intelligence agencies and internal security organizations, is how cold and machine like we picture them to be. Faceless generic men-in-black, saying very little, seemingly carrying out one-word objectives.
Another book I shall check out. 🙂 Thanks.
I love how you’ve commented on the poem it’s precisely the point of this particular structure. I wanted the poem to illustrate the game, the stakes, the objectives, the winning, the arrogance, and the manipulation of the CIA circumscribed by bureaucratic inefficiency, political agendas, and all fueled by an undeniable ignorance. Thank you, as always!
Very soothing rhythm for a piece so filled with tension!
Loved it!
Thanks, I look forward to reading your post.
perfect rhyming, tight and powerful.
🙂
Thank you, I enjoyed your poem too.
‘Disinformation can withstand the facts’ – inspired line, and it seems a fundamental beyond the poem too…
Sadly true…
Amazing poem! Your words are very powerful anf thought-provoking! I loved each and every word
Wow, thank you so much, I’ll be by to read your work soon!