Sestinia (a sestina)

Sestinia (a sestina)

Every time I see memes pertaining to 1984

on SM, lamenting the loss of free speech,

I’m reminded of the current dictator

in Oceania, dismantling freedom, little by little;

all the while doubling down on doublespeak;

prompting the proles into believing the opposite;

demonising people in the party opposite;

rousing rage, reminiscent of hate week in 1984;

firing up the flock with blatant doublespeak;

condemning free speech, in the name of free speech;

preaching Christian values, whilst pointing his little

digit at a Democrat, denounced as a dictator,

by the absolute epitome of a dictator;

threatening to sue media outlets of opposite

opinion, who dare to highlight the suffering of little

kids, killed daily since the completion of 1984;

three years after a denier of free speech,

via the expertise of a manipulator of doublespeak,

died in a bunker, along with the doublespeak

manipulator, before the army of another dictator,

with his own twisted view of free speech,

fought their way in, and found what little

remained, to the vexation of the inspiration for 1984;

the head of a party as extreme, yet opposite;

approaching totalitarianism from the opposite

direction; armies fuelled by the same doublespeak,

alluded to in the, as yet unwritten, 1984,

albeit not in the same dialect as the dead dictator,

reduced to a pile of ash, from the little

we know, given the curbs on free speech,

concerning the remains of the free speech

denier, long dead, along with his opposite

number, who died a few years after doublespeak

was coined by the author of 1984;

a book banned by the still living dictator,

but now available worldwide, often quoted in little

snippets, with a little nod to the orange dictator

slandering the opposite, like a caricature from 1984;

using doublespeak to shut down free speech.