Author: Jon Elkon

  • NOT Boris Johnson – Another Aldeberanian Hero!

    NOT Boris Johnson – Another Aldeberanian Hero!

    NOTE: What follows is nothing to do with the President of the United States of Britain of a similar name. HE’S fictional. Well come ON! Whoever could ever believe there’s a Prime Minister called Boris DePfeffle Johnson. This on the other hand is the historical true satirical story of BOGUS DEPIFFLE JOBSWORTH. A Different person altogether.

    All hail Great Skong! This is Agent 4564b, reporting from ‘Earth’, as per your instructions based on the kidnap of my maternal Grandmother and your threat to eat him and his. As you know, I myself intended to eat the creature as soon as her reproductive cycle had concluded – so, you bastard, my admiration! You got there first. I hope her/his kittens choke you

    May your farts bring orgasms to all the planet Earths of this Universe.

    THIS REPORT IS DEDICATED TO YOU, AND YOUR HOLY SON, THE BOGUS, with all my contemptuous admiration.

    UPDATE: The most powerful Agent of the Great Skong, 273526, had failed lamentably in his attempt to undermine his designated continent, Amerigo Vestpucci. Having invaded the body of a Trump, he found himself ejected from his House at the very moment of potential victory. This despite his employment of the dreaded mind-mush amongst a sizeable percentage of the Amerigoons, known proud boyly as the Deplorables. It may well be the case that the body supplied to him/her/it may itself be turning into mush as a result of the application of vast quantities of Muck Donals, a peculiar brand of junk ‘food’ favoured by Deplorables. Also, Coke Colder, a  black drink with a huge amount of this Earth’s favourite drug, sugar. And so perhaps he will simply rot away delightfully, in which case we will send you the corpse to dine on. If not, it is possible he may be of some use for a while. Time, as they say on our home planet, will smell.

    A series of his reports to you are in the archives, in case you have forgotten, Here’s the first one FYI http://jonelkon.com/report-from-earth/

    And now, the remaining Agents of the Empire can only nibble away at what is left of their of Sanity, an offshoot of that human infection called logic. Remaining agents are still active in countries called something like (this Earth is rubbish at spelling) Twerky, Phillip Inns, Bra Zille, Hungry, Russier, and there are several agents vying for power in almost every country of this de-knighted place. Armed and equipped with massive amounts of mind-mush (dispensed through a collective unconscious called the Internut, via what they enjoy calling So shall Medja) they occupy every nook and cranny of this festering lump of rock. Which festering, by the way, was initiated by the Earthlings themselves, quite without any Aldeberanian efforts. Because while several of these grotesque creatures are suffering from Sanity and Logic, at least 99% are infected by that greatest and highest of Aldeberanian virtues, which we value above all others: Greed. As a result, they are making a pretty good job of destroying the capability of their rock to support life. Which, you may say, Great Skong, (may your ears rot and your brain bubble out of the holes! Yes, I love you.) means we could just sit back and wait for these creatures to drown in their own ordure and then just invade and eat it all. But how long would it take, oh great two. I know how impatient both your brains are.

    And so to my Report:

    THE BOGUS WAS BORN at a ridiculously young age, and how the Humans marvelled at his resemblance to themselves! Four legs, four arms (two of each of which had to be removed by his proud parents) and, of course, a barbed penis. Yes, you guessed it: his parentage was part Aldeberanian on the Twerkish side (Twerky being, as I have said, one of the parts of this Earth ruled by one of our agents, the very delicious and thrustful Erdogranny, a Nerd of the twelfth level.) The Bogus thusways was disguised as an Earthling by his adoring mother Stanley Piffle and his adorable other mother. Yes, Great Skong. You! How I doth love you. Let me count the graze! on my knees!

    Unfortunately, as you know, there was a slight problem in the installation of the brain. Owing to the destruction of the delivery drone from the Home Planet by an area of High Pleasure which moved in from South West, and with virtually unbroken sunshine it will be a warmer day as well temperatures around 12 to 16 degrees but 17 in a few spots such as cardiff and manchester

    Seems there may have been a similar problem in the installation of my brain too. Or I hit a button called dictate with one of my tentacles in error while listening to Radio 4. Rebooting…

    Ah! That’s better.

    Where was I. Once the Bogus was grown a bit, it was inserted into a pubic School called Eating. No doubt the school’s name derives from its long association with the Aldeberanian Conspiracy, and the nourishment provided to the eminent teachers by the consumption of so many delicious brains with gravy. Naturally the defective brain he was issued with began to smell, it being rather too human for comfort. As a result several brain parts had to be replaced or destroyed. The amygdala had to be excised, for example. This is an operation performed on all Eating Boys, removing the capacity for empathy which is a lamentable human trait possessed by quite a few who didn’t have the benefit of getting into one of our famous pubic schools. These humans are, as you can imagine, referred to as ‘losers’ by all our alumni.

    It was at this famous Boring School that our Bogus received his essential education in Writhing, Lying and Apoplectic. He read all the great Roaming Poets, such as Homo and Covid. He studied the great Economists like Damn Smith and, of course, our very own Highneck. Sports were not entirely avoided naturally. At Eating there is a wide variety available, from Crick necks, to Bullying to Skull Duggery and, of course, Buggery (otherwise known as the Wall Game). It is not known how many of these glorious pastimes he indulged in. Suffice it to say he had a jolly good time, spiffing, Sooopah, what japes.

    Finally after XIV years of this, thoroughly inflated with knowledge of his own self-importance, Bogus was ready for University.

    Of course he chose Oxbridge, which is situated on the Oxus River in the town of Oxen, in the County of Oxwich.  The reason he chose Oxbridge was for the name. After all, he has always felt something of an affinity for bovine beasts, having been issued with a body resembling one. Here he studied Classics such as Tchikovsy and Handle in the original Latin and Geek. He applied for and was instantly accepted by the Bullying Club because of his extensive experience in this area, This famous club was a haven for many varieties of male bovine creatures with a preference for alcohol over water, an enjoyment of barbed penises and what they can do, and obviously a total absence of an amygdala. What more japes!  By studying assiduously for at least five minutes a week, he gained a Masters in Pomposity, Arrogance, Blurting, and Farting (all the best qualities of Aldeberanians, inherited no doubt from your most rotund and rubicund self oh darling my dear. How I wish I could have your heads in my claws, so that I could spoon out your brains and enjoy them with soy sauce!!). This is referred to as a BA, which stands, I believe for Bugger All,

    He was even made President of the Oxen Union, a very special club in which members dressed as oxen tie each other up and throw words at each other. Japes. Here they learn how to spurn logic, twist facts into convoluted delusions, confusions and contortions, using bogusness and bluster to create magnificent palaces of Ox Bollox.  How they laughed as they learned not just to talk the hind legs off a donkey, but to persuade it to get up and take a walk afterwards! (Thanks Douglas Adams). By the time he left Oxen he had well earned his first name, Bogus, which though sometimes expressed as Bogus Doris (as a result of some confusion in the dark at the Bullying Club. Frequently.) he bore with pride all his life.

    BOGUS LEARNS HIS CRAFT

    There is, on this Earth, in the Country of Britland, an absurd system whereby the steaming masses are more-or less kept under control by believing, ridiculous as it may sound, that their rulers care what they think. As the Aldeberanian Great Skong you may well be delighted that these humans can be so easily fooled, and generally become pudding-feed to be dined on by their betters. The Control Mechanisms – called variously Democrassness, Dick Tator’s Ship, Auto Crassness, Commune Isn’t, etc – have very small and subtle differences one from the other. Frankly, too small to be of consequence, as they are all devoted to the same objective.

    The official method in Britland is, of course Democrass. This system requires five-yearly erections in which vast moneys are spent to find out what the people think, then tell them what they think and persuade them to put a cross next to what YOU think. Generally, this works because getting Brits to believe five ludicrous things before bedtime is a long tradition, going way back to when Britz lived in caves in which the only running water was urine. In those days it was easy to get people to believe in god or gods! Hilarious! Which belief system served to keep them in control for centuries. But nowadays, Bogus realised, the way to control humans is through the Mind.

    This was the reason he became a journalist for the Torygraph. Brief explanation: The Torygraph is of the genus ‘Nudespaper’, a tree-based life form sliced into digestible slices and fed through the head to willing humans. Called ‘Nudespaper’ because many others of the same derivation feature earthlings with no clothes on. Yes I know how that revolts you. But be that as Theresa May, our Bogus had an immense amount of fun learning how to apply and develop all his arts of fact fukking and ox bollox he had learned with the Bovine University in the context of mind-moulding, something the Torygraph prided itself in and had been developing for centuries. It was in this job that our hero learned how to pretend to have Opinions, a mental aberration we have long discarded in favour of selfindulgent hatred of everybody. This was an excellent strategy for him, however, as it got him his middle name of De Piffle, another honour he was to bear with pride all his life.

    Greater success followed. Very soon a member of the nudespaper family called a Maggot Seen because it was owned by a worm of that genus that requires Spectacles, had him stolen. They greatly valued his excellent skills in obfuscatory circumlocution, flummox and bluster, all part of their signature tune for centuries. Here, our Bogus churned out column after column (in honour of the Roamings, who had lots of them called Doris, Ironic and Coren Ian) made of a variety of ordure, some of it (in honour of his Alma Martyr) bull shit. So prolific was he that he earned his august surname: Jobsworth.

    THUS ENDETH THE EARLY TRIALS of the hero of this account, BOGUS DE PIFFLE JOBSWORTH. Tune in to the same website for the next exasperating episode!

    Much love..,.,

  • 2020 and other Infections

    2020 and other Infections

    UPCATCH: How Bad News for Some is good News for the Same Some.

    Have I told you about the clattering rattle of Event after event, like gravel escaping from the truck ahead and striking the windscreen? What a shit past year, not just for me but for you too, probably. Also, for him, her and it.

    In case you haven’t kept up;

    I’ll pass briefly over the horror of Covid. i have known many who were invaded, a few died. It’s such a horrible death I can’t talk about it.

    But then there were all the other things, and in the words of Dostoyevsky in the Brothers Karamazov playing now on BBC Radio 4 Extra, ‘Everything that has happened to me I brought on myself’.

    Evidence: the bike accident which crushed some vertebra, caused by me wearing a long scarf and ignoring the woman outside Sainsbury’s who said, yes really, ‘be careful with that’. A seer. A prophet who never had the satisfaction of seeing her prediction fulfilled about five minutes later as the scarf caught in my front wheel and I was flipped over the handlebars onto my head.

    Ach! But how lucky was that! The date 2nd March 2020. 10 days in hospital, Out of the Pandemic’s way. Discharged just before the virus tiptoed into the hospital, sharp, cold, dangerous. Arriving at home just in time for Lockdown 1 and a letter telling me to Shield.

    And then, Shropshire Marc who had come all the way to London to look after me, left me on the Monday with tons of food and everything I needed. On the Tuesday he came down with Covid, and I didn’t;

    The year scraped on like fingernails across a chalkboard. Episode after horrible episode. My novel’s plot and main character was stolen, for example. My fault! I’d put it into a WordPress file for my Beta readers, easily found by the pet author of a publisher I had been in discussions with. Yeh yeh, coincidences happen – I’ve always said that ideas hang about in the cosmos, and the first person to grab them is the winner. But there are far too many similarities to be explained away by serendipity, or an errant mischievous muse. Much more likely an errant mischievous mouse.

    And the film script! Super, crazy, original. The sort of plot and characters SO current, SO relevant, the BBC or Netflix would give their left testicle for it. Possibly the right one as well. My mistake? My wonderful co-writer (who has screen credits) after innumerable edits and rewrites refuses to believe in the substance of the plot. We’ve worked on it for about 3 years, ironed out all the inconsistencies – rewrite after rewrite. It drove me mad. To the extent that I refused to do even one more. So he refuses to submit. Our perfect darling, lying in cyberspace unloved, aborted. It could have been Einstein.

    FUCKING 2020! 

    Thing after thing after thing. I’ve forgotten half the disasters, thanks to psychotherapy and medication.

    Then on February the 2nd this year – ok ok ok we’re on 2021 now – Robins & Day send a man to pick up my car for its MoT. I didn’t want to drive it there and take a bus back so fine, why not take advantage of their free pick up/drop off. The driver is a young chap. So I say, with an insincere wink (it was a powerful sporty car) (note, ‘was’) ‘Don’t show off’ I say.

    Plant a seed, get a giant beanstalk with a giant on top.

    So on the way back he drove it full pelt into the back of a truck. Wrote it off, the little bastard. Walked out unscathed. 

    As to me, I was scathed. Carless. Bereft. While I hardly ever used it (I’m learning to be Green, after all) I was rather attached to its sleek, low-slung sexiness, the illusion that ensconced in the thing in my pre-Covid rides to Shropshire, I had magically become young and spunky.

    Moan moan moan, me me me. 

    Yes I reached out for psychotherapy, folks, which was a good thing. The NHS gave me some gratis anti- PTSD CBT after the accident, then some more and now I’m paying for a trainee therapist to practise on me. It’s quite fun.

    So NOW I’ve come to this conclusion, and it may be as a result of allowing strangers into my brain: 

    Many’s the twists and churns

    And some, but not every disaster turns

    Around

    So MAYBE: Maybe Ragazzo, the novel is wrong. However wonderful. Maybe my attempt to escape my destined genre is a mistake. Maybe I need to go back to political satire of the Apartheid type. Maybe I need Levine. 

    A brief, very carefully worded explanation (in case ——— still haunts my cyberoutput in search of more ideas to steal): Levine goes to the toilet, where he has a set of gears. Hillbrow about 1966. Ha! ——! Try stealing THAT! – an idea I started working on about 10 years ago. Poor chap, 120 pages in and no resolution. Left dangling. Unborn. Why did I stop working on Levine? Too stoned, possibly, if I was still doing stuff. Don’t remember. But finding the notes for the novel has opened a door….to a box full of chirping, chanting, fussing and fighting fools and floozies…they were lurking, waiting, ready.

    Exciting!

    And get this: I have a secret little mantra, which has been tumbling around my conscious and unconscious. It goes: ‘every day in every way I get greener and greener’. Dear Robins and Day! Eventually they gave me a chunk of money as compensation for totalling my sports car. Which I have spent on a gentle little hybrid, a Virtue Wagon. (No smartie it’s not a VW) Which allows me to proceed smugly about my business, on the extremely rare occasions I fire up its little heart and take it on an utterly essential car ride.

    Things are looking up. (Probably looking up skirts, the dirty buggers. I would never look up a skirt.) 

    Dear Peter just invited me sailing, as soon as this virus buggers off.

    I still mourn the deaths, I still ache from the accident – but have the promise, at least of an operation. So bravo! Baste the rest of 2021 in honey and fire up the barbecue! 2021 maybe I’ll be born anew!

    ‘every day in every way I get greener and greener‘

    I love you all, natch!

  • Meditation: Beyond Mindfulness

    Meditation: Beyond Mindfulness

    This is the system of meditation I have used for almost 50 years. I have finally managed to write it down, so I can leave it to you. It is a path to enlightenment.

    Buddhist Meditation given by Burmese Monk Pe Maung Tin in the 1950s to Morrie Kingston who gave it to me in 1973. Yours now.

    Instructions and explanation.

    The modern practice of Mindfulness derives from ancient techniques of Meditation. Mindfulness is excellent, doubtless, and can be fantastically helpful in re-orientating the restlessness and unease we suffer in the modern world and returning us to equilibrium. The use of breath, awareness of the breath-body and calming the mind to put everything in some perspective are what both have in common. Yet this is only the first stage of meditation. Perfectly adequate for most people. However, to reach higher levels in the pursuit of the ultimate spiritual goals and work towards Samadhi (Sanskrit: “total self-collectedness” in Indian religion, and particularly in Hinduism and Buddhism, the highest state of mental concentration that a person can achieve while still bound to the body and which unites him with the highest reality. – Encyclopedia Brittanica) takes a longer, deeper practice.

    If you are used to meditation and or mindfulness practices you will be familiar with the basic technique. If not, I have tried to explain:

    Using the Breath:

    For each:  SLOWLY, breathe in to about the count of 6.Then breathe out, SLOWLY to the count of 6. Repeat 6 times then to the next. Count each breath. For example, ‘Experiencing the breath-body I breathe in, one. Experiencing the breath-body I breathe out, one. Experiencing the breath-body I breathe in, two. Experiencing the breath-body I breathe out, two….’ to the count of 6 or if needed, 10.

    For each breath, feel the breath entering and leaving the nostrils, focus on the sensation of the breath in and the breath out. 

    In this practice, each Level forms a unitary segment, and the entire meditation is a journey. The final Level 3 may not be reached until you have practised the rest many times.

    Now start. If you go through the whole practice, it should take about 40 minutes.

    LEVEL 1.


    Experiencing the Breath-body (become aware of your whole body)

    Calming the breath-body (Here, relax each part of the body either from the head or the toes, whichever you prefer)

    Experiencing Rapture (Feel rapture spread from the heart through the body)

    Experiencing Happiness (in the whole body and mind. Alpha rhythms are now all-pervading)

    LEVEL 2.

    Experiencing the mind (be in contact with all the thoughts rushing through your head, look at them, wonder at them, do not seek to control them)

    Gladdening  the mind  (Fill all those words with light and joy)

    Concentrating the mind (Now, as if taking full control of that mass of words, focus them into a single point, like a whirlpool . Here it may be useful to focus on a visual object like a mandala or just a particular part of the wall. Point all your thoughts at that object and focus them)

    Freeing the mind (Now with each breath let all of that go! Replace with white light. Now you’re ready for -)

    LEVEL 3

    Experiencing Dispassion (Release emotions and attachment to ego and the world)

    Experiencing Cessation (Stop)

    Abandonment (Surrender everything, even this meditation.)


    REPEAT DAILY if you can. At first you may find it difficult to reach Level 3, and each level may be too superficial. Eventually, it gets deeper. Until understanding, followed by comprehension, followed by ….

    ….do not forget, I love you all….

  • CAPITOL INVASION REPORT

    CAPITOL INVASION REPORT

    From Agent Orange of the Aldeberanian Empire

    What a day, what a night! Clearly a lot of hard work was put in by you and me, or to be more accurate, by ME and you to mount the invasion Coop of the Capitol of Washing Town! They poured in from every planet of the Evil Federation of Aldeberanian, to the extent that several Earthlings provided by me (most of them having been consumed by my Mind Worms in advance of course) JOINED IN! There were the Nazsties and Fazzshits frothing blood from their many mouths. The Razizts, their faces painted in apricot dye, the Kay Kay Kay (three headed Kuntz) the Trumpettes all blown up boobies and blended blonde, yummy yummy, the lone Joolee Annie, my adoring semi-human lawyer. And many more! Horribly beweaponed and appropriately drug-crazed.

    How my fart smelled with pride!

    Like all great commanders in our vast Aldeberanian Death Fleet I gave my pre-battle speech to inspire them with appropriate levels of hate and slunk off to my Little White House to sink a few dozen Big Macs and watch the fun on teevee.

    It started ever so bigly. Screaming their arses off, and ushered in by some of our agents, my army of ghouls, demons, trolls, tooled-up twinks, Hubble bubble fatty-boom boom buttheads and of course my favourites, the Deplorables poured in at the very seat of the bottom of the Congressional Senate! Up the ass they went, clambering over their own poop, defiling and mashing as they penetrated almost right into the room where the awful Earthlings who are trying to undermine our Aldeberanian invasion were fiendishly plotting to prevent me taking my rightful place as Ruler of Earth.

    And this, my most dearly hated leader, is as far as we got. The lily-livered cowardy custards then…pause to increase tension – did some selfies and went home. YOU CAN IMAGINE MY ORDURE! Several sycophants had to die immediately from being sat on, shredded by my fingernails, drowned in Mac Juice and whatever else gives me joy.

    Frankly, it’s about funding and resourcing. Had there been more of OUR creatures, rather than these puny cowardly pathetic HUMANS, mad crazy and stupid as they are, we would by now have been executing and eating the Pelosis and Bidens, the Chucks and the chicks! The Democraps! The Rethuglicans! We would be STUFFED with goodies. SO WHOSE FAULT IS THIS EH?

    I got on the FAKE NEWS and the FUX NEWS as soon as I could to tell them so. A whole team of writers and several acting coaches helped me deliver the sort of smarm and crap these morons love, saying how awful, blah blah. To make sure they are lulled back into their customary state of inertia.

    So NOW, my dearly hated leader, I need even MORE reinforcements. We have around TWO Earth weeks to take over this planet and I am coming to you of course because this is your area, your expertise, taking over and destroying planets. Yes I could have done it on my own and I will if I have to. I have this ATOMIC BUTTON thingy which is as much fun playing with as my own button, the one under my tail which excretes babies. And unless you now mobilise another REGIMENT of Deplorables I am going to have to play with it lots and if it ejaculates believe me there won’t be many earthlings left to eat. So I’m told.

    I await instructions and reinforcements. While I wait I will invent more slogans as good as my old ones. Make Earth Gasp Again! MEGA! Stop the steel and the copper too! And my greatest slogan ever, Fake Pews! (That’s about the delusion they call Religion. You wouldn’t understand.)

    Hatefully yours….

    Much love 

    Agent Donny.

    Read the reports in sequence, if you haven’t done so already!  

    Report 6: http://jonelkon.com/time-to-invade-the-earth/

    Report 5: http://jonelkon.com/the-last-week-of-the-world/

    Report 4: http://jonelkon.com/earth-my-new-home/

    Report 3: http://jonelkon.com/report-from-earth-part-3/

    Report 2: http://jonelkon.com/report-from-earth-part-2/

    Report 1: http://jonelkon.com/report-from-earth/

  • The Trout

    The Trout

    An extract from DIVA, the sequel to my soon-to be published ‘The Ragazzo’

    Scene 4

    Frau Weinhoffer is sitting posed elegantly on the chaise longue in the smart drawing room of the apartment of the Altmann family. On the papier-mache gilded table before her, a cold cup of tea and a plate of perfectly cut breadlets, draped with the corpses of anchovies. Frau Altmann sits across the room from her, reading a newspaper.

    She looks up. ‘It seems your daughter is something of a success, Frau Weinhoffer. This is an excellent review’

    NOTE for readers: Fr Weinhoffer, before the onset of Alzheimer’s was a singing teacher. Her eroding mind still retains her ability to play the piano

    ‘Yes, thank you darling.’

     ‘Shall I read it to you?’

    ‘My darling. I looooove you.’

    ‘”…the production values are excellent as one does expect from this Director – ‘ Of course! That’s my son you know. “…performances…” ah here it is “…fraulein Weinhoffer’s voice is robust and powerful in the role of Venus, which is certainly appropriate – although I usually prefer a mezzo. She is a consummate actress too, making the role shine and showing great depths of character as well as sometimes thrilling vocal range. I often had the impression she was holding back in order to save us from too much ecstasy…” Amazing! Too much ecstasy! You must be proud.’

    Fr Weinhoffer picks up a brottchen and tries to outstare the dead pilchard. She laughs, delightedly

    ‘Have you eaten something?’ Fr Altmann asks. ‘Shall I get you some more brottchen?’ Frankly Frau Altmann has begun to tire of her guest. The elderly Mutti, as she was called now by almost the entire household, was generally poor company who had to be told what to say, what to do, and when to do it.

    Her only enjoyment, it seems, was to sit at the piano playing or singing or God forbid, both. While her performances of her eroding repertoire were always almost efficient, her singing voice had become at least a semitone out of tune –which wouldn’t have been quite as horrible if the variation was consistently only a half tone out. Unfortunately her singing would start off vaguely accurate at the beginning of the song and then it would be off on a magical journey entirely unrelated to the intentions of the composer.

    Any attempt by the woman to seat herself at the piano was therefore a source of utter dread. So when she says, ‘I will play’ and stands, heads for the Piano, her hostess’ heart sinks and her ears attempt to retreat inside her skull.

    ‘Du Liebe Gott!’ Frau Altmann mutters.

    ENTER Georg Altmann. ‘Mother, mother!’ he shouts, waving a letter he has just finished reading. His whole body, the letter itself is quivering with his barely suppressed excitement. ‘Look! Look!’

    ‘Calm please Georgchen’, she says reprovingly. Ever since her son had leapt out of her womb, she had been trying to hold his enthusiasm down to bubbling, rather than explosive. ‘You read it to me. First, breeeeeathe….’

    Georg takes a slow, deep breath. ‘Yes mummy,’ he says, using the English word. Then, concentrating, ‘”Dear Herr Altmann, I had the pleasure to see your excellent Tannhauser last night and may I say I was extremely impressed, especially with some of the singers particularly. As a major patron of the Munich Opera…” – patron! Mummski! – ‘

    ‘Very nice dear,’ Fr Altmann says.

    ‘Nice! It is magnificent!’ Georg allows himself to let slip. ‘Munich! Wagner himself – Wait. Let me read you the rest – ‘

    Frau Weinhoffer has begun to play. It is the intro to ‘Forelle’ again, repeated and repeated. She is waiting for an invisible singer to begin the verse.

    ‘”…..I shall be insisting that your Company is invited to give a performance there in the very near future. You will be receiving confirmation of this invitation from the Opera within a very few days….”’

    The piano music is getting louder and louder.

    ‘I said – he says –“…within a very few days”! It means he can actually organise – for heaven’s sake!’ he is trying to ignore the mad jangles of the piano but it trickles all over them.

    ‘Calm, dear. Read me the rest of it. And don’t swear.’

    ‘I will try!’ He is almost shouting. ‘Then he says I must telephone him to discuss arrangements. They will pay for everything. Perhaps we can get a season – though they have their own Company – ‘

    ‘I’m sure you will dear.’

    Frau Weinhoffer is now playing the same passage, repeated and repeated, as loudly as she can , making conversation almost impossible.

    ‘Who is it from?’

    ‘What?’

    ‘Who sent the letter?’

    ‘What?’

    ‘Give me that!’ Fr Atmann is losing her temper. Stands, snatches the letter. ‘My God! It’s Von Eisenhoff!’

    ENTER Guido as Annaliese Weinhoffer. Within a second he has assessed the situation and standing next to the piano, he begins to sing, ‘In einem Bächlein helle da schoß in froher Eil….’

    Immediately Fr Weinhoffer settles into a less frenetic pace and a bearable volume. The Bechstein is grateful, along with the entire room. And Guido’s voice cuts the air to shreds.


  • A Stupidocracy Three

    A Stupidocracy Three

    (As Esther would say)

    (Imagine a world without QAnon, Antivax, Climate Change deniers!)

    Part 1

    QAnonsense

    It’s ASTOUNDING how

    Humans now

    Seem BOUND to bow

    to the NONSENSE gods

    Who define

    Opinions which

    Scut like clouds

    Of fart and flame

    Finding NONSENSE which to blame

    For the ROT that stuffs their brain.

    You can’t get more wrong than – see above!

    A porridge fist in a paper glove!

    Part 2

    AUNTY VAXX

    In her leather slax

    Defends

    Her arm from the phantom harm

    While she pretends

    Alarm at the thought that she

    With her poisonous breath

    Could slightly infect

    Or kill

    My Auntie Jack or my Uncle Jill!

    While she, the poisonous elf

    Gets poisoned herself!

    Part 3

    Cavalier Mike

    GET on your BIKE!

    You bore

    The Civil War ain’t working no more

    You insist it’s strange

    You make Climate Change!

    And refuse to admit

    That when cows shit

    Or fart, (you twit)

    They rearrange

    It.

    So when the last trump sounds

    You’d better retreat

    Take to your feet!

    Your troops have fired their rounds.

    Time to surrender

    You crusty defender

    Zounds!

    You ASTOUND me.

  • TIME TO INVADE THE EARTH

    TIME TO INVADE THE EARTH

    PLEA FOR HELP!

    From: Agent 273536

    To: The Ever-so-great GREAT Aldeberanian Empire, attention the GREAT SKONG HIMSELF!

    All hail to the Great Skong from his most devoted, most marvellous, most beautiful and cleverest agent anywhere in the Universe. Though not as great as You, of course, most marvellous one.

    I have the temerity to address this plea directly to you, for the situation here on this tiny ugly little planet in the furthest corner of the Milky Way has reached a point where I am going to need the Invasion.

    Allow me to explain, for this is all part of my dastardly plan drawn up with the inspiration of the Mr Normal Vincent Peake. This dead person is one of the gods of this planet, the only one I have actually read. The Power of Positive Stinking! Highly recommended. It teaches how, with the application of ordure to the armpits, rotting oranges to the face and garlic and onion to the breath, any Earthling will quail immediately and do whatever is asked from her him or it in order to get out of my little White House. And if they don’t leave quick, I use that fabulous mantra I learned from TV: ‘You’re fired!’ You should see their silly faces! Lol!

    (I was taught to read by myself, of course. Being a very stabled genius, this was no problem and very soon I realised that there was only one other book people recommended that may be of interest, called the Bibble. I tried to read that but realised that none of the Gods in there have the slightest idea as to how to subjugate destroy and spread hate in a country. Pathetic. One of them actually says ‘Love thy Neighbour’! Loser. Sad.)

    To return to my plea, oh greatest Skong, who I will immediately dethrone on my return to the Aldeberanian Holy City, Moskva because I am slightly greater than you.

    I have done all I promised! Here’s a reminder in case you were asleep when I sent my last Report.

    1. I have recruited a mass following of 60 million in this one Country alone. In many other lands there are those who follow my brilliant ideas and those of the Vincent Peake. These tools, fools and fake jewels are burning with the fire of my falsehoods, alight with the glory of inversion of the fabric of reality. They now believe immorality is morality, hatred is compassion, that everybody is unequal and they need their weapons to enforce my holy will. Bang! They are completely convinced that the oceans are not rising, Earth is not getting hotter and Santa will come down their  chimneys! Totally successful mind invasion.
    2. I then imported the Plague from China, to further destroy any slightest idea of resistance and promoted its widespread distribution with my rallies, as described in my previous report.
    3. So that very soon the Earthlings will erupt and start killing each-other again! And when they’ve killed each-other enough, they’ll be ripe for conquest!

    You won’t believe this Great Skong, but they are trying to evict me from my House! This is because of what they call an Erection. It would seem they choose their kings by embarking on a magnificently complex operation, based on rules no-one understands except this one: Whoever throws the most money at the process wins the right to live in my House.

    What fun! I thought when I heard about it. HURRAH! Great japes. And being as great as I am, I was convinced it would be no problem to raise the most. After all, I am a Master of Fraud and Lies, my degree obtained from the Fake Aldeberanian University a thousand years ago just before I was born.

    But would you believe it! Along comes this aged sage Mr Biddle, an adherent of the Book of similar name (see above) full of false gods and empty promises, and using this absurd dogma and every trick in the Book – including honesty, probity, ethics and everything else we so gloriously hate – manufactures vast amounts of money. Not fair! 

    So, it seems, they are about to appoint him King.

    This is why I need you to come NOW. With your regiments of Psychopaths and Nasties, the Slavering Hydrophobics, the horribly beweaponed armies of Narcissists and of course, my favourites, the Deplorables! INVADE! This land is your land and this Earth shall be ours! Besides, I was getting used to my little White House with all its blondies and floozies and MacDonalds. I quite like the golfing too.

    I SHALL NOT BE MOVED!

    So bloody hurry up ok?

    Much love 

    Agent Donny.

    Read the reports in sequence, if you haven’t done so already! 

    Report 5: http://jonelkon.com/the-last-week-of-the-world/

    Report 4: http://jonelkon.com/earth-my-new-home/

    Report 3: http://jonelkon.com/report-from-earth-part-3/

    Report 2: http://jonelkon.com/report-from-earth-part-2/

    Report 1: http://jonelkon.com/report-from-earth/

  • The Last Week of the World

    The Last Week of the World

    GREETINGS from Agent 273536 and hearty apologies for the delay between the last Report from Planet Earth and this one! I realise that my demise is ensured if I return home, and that my body will be fed to the children. HOWEVER I wish to point out that in order to fulfil my mission on this benighted planet I had to adopt the body of a repulsive human, a concatenation of fat and undigested gristle, riddled with fart and unexcreted ordure, much of which exits through the mouth. So you can understand how reluctant I am to bring that home. Everybody will want some.

    So here it is, my latest and greatest Report ever. It’s very great. There has never been a greater Report. Trust me.

    Sender: Agent Dombo (formerly Secret Agent 273536)

    35th of Brazzbolls year 222556

    TOP SECRET Report 5

    Project: Ascertain whether the primitives of Planet called “Earth” by their human inhabitants may become a threat to the Empire any time soon.

    All hail the Great Skong 0f the Aldeberanian Empire! AND All hail the Great Me of Earth!

    It fills me with pride to report on the sublime achievement of all the objectives I set myself since my arrival on Earth. As you know, my first learning experiences were salutary – the original Earthling body I inhabited was called a ‘werewolf’ and had to be fed a great many dead humans. Unfortunately it eventually became far too full of silver bullets to operate effectively. The second one was called a ‘homeless’, or, ‘fuckoff’ to the denizens of their greatest City, Noo Yorque. This one required fuelling with a liquid called alchohole which necessitated my becoming acquainted with Money, and therefore I had to acquire a great deal of the stuff. But this creature turned out to be entirely unresilient, and because it was rapidly biodegrading I had to find another.

    Fortunately you were kind enough to (eventually) send me the body I now inhabit, although I had to find my own head by exploring the nearest swamp. And so, with my newly acquired head and body, I was able to step-by step begin to acquire the entire planet.

    And now, Dear Skong, the It whose every breath shrivels the penises off our women, whose entire Empire bows down before its redolent asshole, I can inform you that within a week I will have this planet entirely at the mercy of my own tiny hands. Let’s count my great success:

    1. I have gathered a mindless mob of humans who eat my words, my deeds, my nasal emissions with glee, smothered in sugar and coated in spice.
    2. This mob are armed to the teeth and ready to invade every sector of this USeless GreatAgain (US Gray) Land and thereafter, once they have killed every dog, cat and flower, every corner of the Earth,.
    3. I have vastly increased the poisons in land, sea and air by encouraging the extraction and processing of pools of poisons that live under the surface. Softened up for conquest they are!
    4. I have destroyed all the voices of truth and reason by replacing them with me.
    5. I have invented a brilliant germ which I have brilliantly blamed on the only possible threat to my domination, and let it loose all over the world. Millions are dying, especially the prettiest and oldest, the only ones who could conceivably realise what I’m up to.
    6. I have undermined every effort of countries outside of GreatAgain to exert any control or influence, by planting our agents as kings of Brazilla , Turk Ish, the Useless Kingdom, Hungry, Phillips Inn, and many more.
    7. I have made lots of wars for no good reason. I just like them.

    Oh, if only I could remember all the great wonderful marvellous fabulous things I’ve done! I have impregnated many humans, for example, placing all my hands in all their orifices practically all the time.

    But now, OH Great Skong we are reaching out to the ultimate nadir of all our efforts. In a week, in a week we discover if I, the greatest Dong of all time, have succeeded in single-handedly (with a little help from our poppleist agents) destroying this planet, making invasion as easy as squeezing a pimple on your most excellent face. (A service which, as you know, I am always happy to provide)

    So Watch This Space

    Because if the foolish citizens of GreatAgain fail to uphold my lifetime rule, I shall have to kill them all. And the others too. the whole lot. This entire planet which, if it refuses to be as pustulant as my very mind needs to go.

    Much love, and give all my heartiest blood gobbets, snot and halitosis to my family and yours,

    My previous Report is here:http://jonelkon.com/earth-my-new-home/

  • Dancing in a Dark

    Dancing in a Dark

    Pack up my shadow

    Let me go

    Darkness becomes me.

    Fate slept, dreaming.

    The Castle

    Ruined, gapes open.

    I will leave myself behind me when I go. 

    (Not just you)

    The interior I wear on the outside

    A jumper between me and the cliff

    The magical alchemy of catalyst

    Me and world

    Made golden by our collective 

    Duplicity

    (I visit Happiness sometimes

    As an alien, passport smudged

    Visa expired.

    I won’t hang about.

    I don’t want to outstay

    My welcome.)

  • Green Dreams Part 2:

    Green Dreams Part 2:

    in the Land of Ifonly….

    News!

    Happy to report I have been appointed Co-Ordinator of the Hounslow Green Party. From now on every tweet, every Blog, every Facebook post, every Instagram moment is likely to be searched out by a stranger and used for blackmail. Hah. The price of being in politics. Luckily for me, my principle has always been ‘never post anything Granny would not approve of!’ So trolls and blackmailers, scourers of the Interweb, scour away!

    This is Conference Week (well, 10 days actually) so I thought I’d take a break from Conference and write a little story for you. Is that ok? Just a short one, dear butterfly.

    IN THE LAND OF IFONLY

    ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A SMALL PROFESSOR who lived in a far away land, the land of Ifonly. Here every wish came true. Not only was the sky blue all the time, (well tbh it was any colour any member of the population wished for), but everybody was nice to each-other. There was general agreement that in order to get along, it would be much better not to murder your best friend. Or even, rape them or steal from them. As every member of the population was your best friend, this made for a very dull country indeed, in which the police spent their time playing chess, or making graffiti on the walls of parliament.

    Now the Professor, being an academic of no mean achievement (meanness was banned after all) was determined to experiment and to gain fame for his brave new ideas. And so, being a man of fortitude, he went to see the Queen.

    Now the Queen of Ifonly, being the wisest of the wise and having no political power whatsoever, was sitting on her dog Spot weaving patterns in the lawn.

    ‘Yo Maj,’ the prof said, approaching her on his knees (he had no legs), ‘I want the legal right to make changes to the Kingdom.’

    ‘Well,’ said Maj, ‘as this is the Kingdom of Ifonly (and also a wholly Anarchistic Democratic Matriarchy with Oligarchical roots and no rules whatsoever, the people being entirely responsible for themselves and each-other) you may do whatsoever you wish.’

    And so the Professor as an experiment went into his laboratory and invented Greed and sat back to watch what happened. And lo! Capitalism, oligarchs, consumerism, crime, trump, war and starvation followed gradually, evolving as does a drop of snot on my nose in cold weather. And it wasn’t long before the sun, delighted by all the smog and carbon and sweat and blood, began to scorch the Earth. Flood, fire and famine followed. People were even dying, unheard of previously in Ifonly.

    Summoned to the Palace (under the new dispensation Maj had to become a dictator, for she too suffered from the Greed Disease) the Prof arrived in his brand new diesel-powered Lamerover drawn by hundreds of peasants, for the motor just wasn’t powerful enough. Dismounting from the vehicle he picked himself up and crawled into the presence of the Monarch escorted by a phalanx of psychopaths armed to the teeth.

    ‘Maj’, he said…

    ‘Maj,’ he said –

    ‘That’s Sir Maj to you, speck of snot adhering to the bottom of my bottom,’ she said. ‘I hath summoned you to account for myself. Why, if you’re so clever at inventing Greed and so on, can you not do something more for me?’

    ‘More?’ quoth Prof. ‘More what, your greatitudinous lump of Majesty? You hath lands and factories and oligarchs, you have peasants desperate to do anything for their minimum wage, you have dead people grateful for their share of virus, what more can your fatness require?’

    ‘You have a point,’ Maj said, thoughtfully. Then, having considered the matter for an hour or two she said, ‘It’s just – it’s just I’m just a teensy bit concerned? And I do have to admit, it’s getting just a tad too hot. And you know what?’

    ‘What, oh superabundant fatitude, what more grossness do you require?

    ‘Well, prof, dear Prof, dear munchkin I could eat as a snack before my next banquet, I need to ask you a question. If – I say if – ‘

    ‘If? Great poem that. If = ‘

    ‘Shut up! If all this heat and flood and suffocation and trumps and virus carries on, how will I find the peasants for my factories, the food for my mouths, the gold for my galleons? Just a thought…’

    ‘I have been having the same thought, oh wisest of demagogues. But the only idea I have had is, the only way to do that is to cancel Greed!’

    ‘Oh Noooooo!’ the Maj shouted. ‘No no no no a thousand times NO! I love all my fluff and nonsense, my sweeties and sicklies, my psychopaths and sycophants. I adore my banquets and bangles, my bubble baths and bojangles, my yachts and my rolls and my farcical polls! Even my trolls!’

    ‘I see.’ The Professor said. ‘Well,’ he added, ‘I am going to have to think about it.’

    And so he did. It was a great dilemma. Cancelling Greed was patently impossible. And yet it was the only way to make things whole again, to restore sweetness and light, to save the shreds of what had once been the Kingdom of Ifonly, the full title of which, he began to realise, was Ifonly there was No Greed.

    And then on Monday he had an epiphany. What if, he thought, what if he could go to Maj and put it this way: Choose! Lose your Kingdom as it rots and rolls, roils, drowns. OR: Change the name of the Kingdom to Whatif. The full title of which is, Whatif We Can Do it Better. And to say to Majister Ludicrous, look: if you want to keep Greed, keep greed for all of us. Be greedy for good clean air. Greedy for good food, good climate, good energy, good people, good goods! Greedy for the joy and freedom of everybody, equality fraternity and all humanity!

    ‘All we need to do,’ he said, as he confronted the Lady with the Lump on Tuesday, ‘All we need to do to make it come about is change the spelling!’

    ‘The spelling???’ she said, picking the pheasant out of her teeth with a peasant.

    ‘Yes!’ he said excitedly. ‘Let’s work for the Good! Change the spelling of G R E E D to G R E E N! Substitute the D for a N and the new kingdom, or democracy rather (Proportionally voted of course) of Whatif can start tomorrow!

    And so it could be, dear fellow people, and so it could be.

    I love you all.


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