Dog Killer Barbie
Really? Must they? I asked aloud, knowing full well I was asking myself rhetorical questions at 6 AM and nobody else in the house was awake.
Really?
We have to suffer TV ads on ABC local news/weather LA affiliate with Sadistic Dog Killer Barbie’s photo and voice telling anyone in the USA “illegally” that they will be “found” (AKA hunted down) and deported?
Paraphrase with subtext:
Leave now before deportation and some day perhaps you can return legally to our (the predators’) Land o’ Milk and Honey to enjoy the Freedoms guaranteed by our Dear Leader.
(You damn well know you can hear the capital letters, Folks, and I don’t use commas when I’m Furious.)
The ad ran three times in an hour, after which, besides the blood coursing in my ears, I heard the voice of Harlan Ellison from Quiet Lies the Locust Tells, his short story intro to his anthology Stalking the Nightmare:
“She thinks we were all killed when they made the Great Sweep, but I escaped in the mud.”
“I was there when they turned the juice on them and I was there when the things began to twitch.
No wonder She wanted all of us dead. Witnesses to their birth, to their construction, to their release into the air--not good. The myrmidons were loosed on the Great Sweep.
I think I am the last one left alive. The last one who can create dreams and not nightmares. I am the locust.”
“I can tell them of the night of black glass, and of the hour that stretches, and of the visionary... but I am no one's hero.”
I heard Ellison, and since I obsessively hoard sanity, I clicked off the wall screen and the sound of her chittering exoskeletonous mandible noises.
“I speak of dreams called nightmares. No more should be expected, at risk of driving the reflection so deep into the mirror it will never emerge again.
The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.”
Then I listened to Paul Simon, Questions for the Angels: https://youtu.be/Xg-fbVokuwM?si=yapl5Pccy8DXfsKs
“Who believes in angels? I do. Fools and pilgrims all over the world…”