A*M*E*R*I*C*A a poetic redux

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• 15 February 2006, 03:10

  State of the Union Subterfuge 2006
  A User’s Guide to the War Train
  subterfuge \SUB-tur-fyooj\, noun:
  A deceptive device or stratagem.

  

  Going to Hell on a War Train:
  Stank of the Nation 2006
  
  Ozone and fear smell sharp like blood
  an acrid undercurrent of inevitability
  as the wheels squeal and brakes burn
  crashing in a slow-motion tumble

  Dangers pile up in deadly drifts
  as the train plows blindly into night
  following the flow of neon and pavement
  toward the rim of a Grand Canyon

  Speeding up rather than slowing down
  even as wildfires rage all around
  the conductor jams the crank ahead
  warning sirens screeching by

  We loaded the 15 tons of fuel with tax
  what did we get- another day of shame
  and deeper in debt to a corporate game
  smash and grab our last glimmers of hope

  Storm clouds roll in with thunder
  carrying a clinging stench of decay
  from the south and the oceans
  yet the train races into oblivion

  Madcap flickers of figments in windows
  prove the passengers preoccupied
  watching pretend people acting heroic
  as they fly by trenches full of bodies

  This train was bound for glory
  once upon a time in a book
  now it’s full speed toward hell
  the demon driver a silly crook

  In the wind we wished for home fires
  roasting sweet treats and meats
  instead the stench of the nation
  is bombed bits of buildings and blood

  P.S.:
  We’ve witnessed the wickedness of war
  yet we follow warlords’ rules
  killing after killing and corruption
  shall our epitaph read: "Death by Fools"?

  State of the Union 2006
  Rest in Peace
  Coretta Scott King

  B.Z.B. Evans
  Ministry of Mutation
  http://wonderkind.blogspot.com
  
  
  http://peoplejudgebush.org/
  
  History will Judge Us by our Corruption or our Courage

  Regardless of the rhetoric being spun out of Washington, DC that we "must win" the war in Iraq, and the insurgents must die, along with all the terror-mad men who hate us, if we are to survive these times with any shred of dignity we must face the facts laid out before us by the rest of the world. We are suffering under the most criminally corrupt regime of corporate pirates to ever seize power in the industrial world, and we are being robbed blind as they distract all of us with far-flung manipulations of terror and sacrifice our children. War-profiteers such as the world hasn’t seen since the days of the Roman Empire.

  In reality, the investigations and disclosures about the events of the 9-11 attacks are still being quashed and censored, even in the face of victims families protests, as are the apparently criminal lies of aggression which resulted in the Bush regime launching military deployment to oil-rich islamic lands. In reality, the "insurgents" are mostly people in desperate situations who have lost relatives to gargantuan military weapons doing desperate things for revenge or what they believe is survival. In reality, the "terrorists" are mostly ideologically committed young people who feel the US is challenging them to a global duel of historic proportions, which is exactly what the Bush regime has done since the day they seized the White House with the help of several Bush-appointed justices.

  As tragic and bloody as their "war on terror" (an Orwellian nightmare) is, remember it is all a well-planned vast distraction. How disoriented do we feel some days when we spend so much of our energy focused on some burning country half a world away whose language we do not speak and culture we barely understand? Meanwhile, back at home, the Bush corporate cronies are busy gutting every environmental protection and social program fought for in the last century, robbing consumers at the pumps, clear-cutting forests, building secret mega-weapons, deploying God knows what new spy technology, and generally undermining what we once considered a "democracy." And the very idea that anyone will "win" the war in Iraq is a corruption in itself. Humanity has already lost itself in the bombed-out gardens of Babylon.

  At some point we the people, in order to retain any sanity, will have to face these crooks and put a stop to it. Find their soft underbellies, where they claim to have a heart, plastic or otherwise. Hit them in the profiteering and expose their reptilian lies. Demand justice, and the truth for which so many thousands have died. Allow the investigations of the Bush-Bin Laden-Rumsfeld-Saddam-CIA-Saudi-Cheney-Halliburton-Enron-Unocal-9-11 web of deception to be realized, and it will be like banishing the wicked witch and her flying monkeys. Begin envisioning these war criminals behind bars.

  Our world will not only be happier for it, but will actually have a chance for survival, rather than armageddon.

  B.Z.B. Evans, Irregular Unit 008
  Burning Bush http://burnbush.blogspot.com
  
  How to Translate "War"

  We should ask ourselves if
  "war" is a universal idea or
  an undiagnosed mental disorder

  see the bloody invasions blasting
  history becoming one long crime
  a wasting contagion on the world

  now in the final hours
  like a fat drunken giant
  fighting flies and wasps
  with a sledgehammer

  The last national challenge:
  translate "patriotic"-
  to extraterrestrials
  before "blasting away"

  B.Z.B. Evans
  BombShelter 2013
  http://godbot.blogspot.com
  
  

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  • 15 February 2006, 20:06

    (sung to America the Beautiful)

    Oh Dutiful
    for specious lies
    for unprovoked attack.
    For Cheney, Condi and Rumsfeld
    The U. S. Patriot Act.
    America, America
    She’ll beat the snot from you.
    Then steal your oil
    and make you toil
    ’til your bleeding red, white and blue

    Inscrutable
    for C.E.O.s
    Whose greed has run amok.
    They’ve plundered pensions by the ton
    and figured what the f_ck.
    America, America
    You’d think they’d have to pay
    But for their crime
    There’s no hard time
    Especially Ken Lay

    Unsuitable
    Polluted skies
    The ozone disappears
    Alaskan oil might meet our needs
    for six or seven years.
    America, America
    Our granchildren all lose.
    So get a grip
    on stewardship
    Or else we pay our dues

    by Justis Suffram
    c. 2003

    peace, love, end the bush administration -js