| Big Tony
Guterres Gets Big Moment With Putin
Dancing At the Long Table Bluewashing
Bucha
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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LITERARY UN GATE,
April 26 – It was Big Tony
Guterres' big day. Face-time
with his papacita Putin if he
could get it.
But first
he'd have to get through two
hours of lunch with Lavrov, in
which polonium might or might
not be included.
Back at the UN,
Guterres ordered the publicly
paid chefs to stuff his face
on the 38th floor. He had
complained about the wine one
time to that lady from the
Financial Times - damn her -
and then gotten mocked by the
blogger.
But now the
blogger was banned, and the
wine was more expensive and to
Big Tony's
taste.
Not so this lunch
with Lavrov. Tony thought this
new chief of staff Courtenay
Rattray looked stiff, and
Dujarric with that stupid
iPhone was taking photos like
a tourist. No matter.
All Tony had to
do was agree with Lavrov that
the US had no right to throw
out spies from its country,
especially if they worked for
the UN, and he'd take to
second base: his papacito
Putin.
Tony'd seen
Vlad get all close and
personal with Olympians, or
maybe it was banned Olympians.
But he was sad to see that
long long table, with Putin
grandly gesturing for him to
sit down.
Tony sat and, for
the camera, took notes with a
pencil. He had tried to
remember his lines. Just stick
to Mariupol, he'd been told.
Nothing about Bucha. Bucha
would stick in Vlad craw, and
that Tony didn't want.
This could
be a win-win. Putin could
re-normalize himself as a
world leader, and Guterres
would look, how ever
inaccurately, relevant again.
Big Tony could dance for this.
He danced.
***
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