Saturday, February 14, 2026

#Enchantra A Valentine Day's lament for a girl in East Tennessee

A highly stylised, mid-century glamour illustration depicts a blonde woman seated at an ornate vanity, her chin poised lightly upon her hand in a gesture of composed allure. Her hair falls in lustrous, sculpted waves, rendered in molten gold tones; her make-up is immaculate, with arched brows, softly contoured lids, and lacquered crimson lips that gleam against porcelain skin. She wears a black dress with a lattice-like neckline and a delicate pendant resting at her collarbone. Behind her, a heart-shaped mirror frames a swirling, nebular fantasia of incandescent reds, corals, and violets, as though the cosmos itself had liquefied into Valentine ornamentation. Translucent hearts and rose petals drift across a paisley-suffused backdrop. Upon the gilded dressing table stand faceted perfume flacons and a powder box, their glass and metal surfaces scintillating in warm, studio-like light that suffuses the entire composition with romantic, saturated radiance.

#Enchantra Happy Valentine’s Day. Didst thou remember to send a card to the child-raping, nation-killing demagogue whom thou worshippest as Lord and Saviour, whilst giving lip service to Jesus — the one whose name is now bound to scandal, secrecy, and redacted files, and whose Department of Justice hath seen fit to obscure more than it hath revealed?

I lament that thou once possessed a heart of gold, and then didst allow political, familial, and societal pressure to harden it when that orange demagogue emerged and told ‘y’all’ precisely what ‘y’all’ had long been waiting to hear. And somehow, in all of this, thou didst choose to blame me for thy heart and soul turning sour.

Well, I thank thee kindly for wasting more than eight years of my life — eight years invested in someone who surrendered her judgement to a cult of grievance and cruelty, along with the rest of the yahoos living around there. (It was a long-distance affair, though I visited her and her family in East Tennessee and became well acquainted — to say nothing of the countless hours she kept me on the telephone most every night, for years.)

Someday thou shalt fall to thy knees — not in worship, but in reckoning — and plead with God for having held so fast to the support of so obvious a con-man and horrifically evil entity. Someday thou shalt seek my forgiveness, and the forgiveness of every soul oppressed in the name of thy Lord and Saviour, Donald Trump.

Make no mistake: I am not pining for thee, nor do I care much any longer about the private relationship issues we endured; but I am eternally furious that thou wouldst betray every principle thou once upheld in order to support a tyrant — and for what gain? To the contrary, he robs us all of everything. Wake up, grow up, and repent.

—‘Christopher Robin’

Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.