Dubya came Tom Cruising
onto the US Lincoln deck
nice gig for a draft dodger
strutting with helmet in hand
big-lying his head off.
Wonder why Americans dumbly believe
Saddam was behind 9/11?
Dubya almost said it again
on the US “fool all of the people, all of the time” Lincoln.
Bush didn’t mention
Bin Laden hating the “atheistic socialistic Saddam”
and all the fundamentalists
celebrating the dictator’s demeaning departure.
And he didn't mention
why
the death ray weapons
of mass poisoning and bad movies
are missing.
America’s unemployment rate jumped to 6%
George Bush is giving money to the rich.
A presidential election will probably take place.
Dubya re-nominated at Ground Zero
Bush has got to be figuring
which war with who?
Beats daddy’s jinx.
An old friend spends a few days with us.
He’s on his way to South and North Korea.
He’s always on his way.
He says the Koreans are madly freaked.
While Dubya and The Imperials joke about what nation
is next for conquest.
The terified Koreans
think
their card is coming up.
What torture to live under Rummy’s rules of order.
The paranoia of prison
combined with illusions of sovereignty.
An American first strike on the North?
A Northern strike on the South?
Maybe Japan gets hit for good measure?
What about California?
No strangers on the train to damnation
the Koreans once flamed in ruin and rubble
a nation burning from top to bottom
in hot blood and cold war.
American and Chinese generals pulling bloody strings.
It made for a great television show.
Remember Hawkeye and Mash?
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The Servant
Neo-Convict Richard Perle Victorious
served black Arab coffee
during the Iraqi hell war
he now jokes about following up
with Korean green tea.
Thirteen Iraqis shot down dead
protesting the US military occupation of a school.
“A good occupation,”
that’s what the Israelis said
their west bank rule would be.
When the territory returned to the Arab world
its citizens would be
good will ambassadors for Israel.
Their occupation turned hideous
destroying in its different ways
an Arab and a Jewish nation.
Some Israelis then admitted,
there are no good occupations.
Gun battles in Mosul.
Kids throw rocks at soldiers.
“How do we know they ain’t grenades?”
Kids die just like in Palestine.
Some Iraqis firing weapons into the air
“Happy Birthday Saddam!”
Marines shoot straight into their heart.
Someday these killers will return home.
And we will learn,
there are no good occupations.
The conquerers seem lost
in the liquidity of dreams.
Moving in a world
of unfixed meanings
and evaporating significance,
hopes and horrors.
They issue passes and permissions to the fundamentalists
and arrest their own puppets.
How to get from point A to point anywhere?
They bombed out the electricity to get Saddam off the tube.
They turn it back on
and Iraqis watch Iranian television.
They must look to the proto-theocracy
to provide their law and order.
Saddam’s old cops aren’t working out.
And “shock and awe” didn’t frighten looters
Where are the pro American rallies?
And Arabs singing the Star Spangled Banner,
wearing buttons proclaiming in Arabic
love me, I’m a Texan.
Did we wreck Iraq
and spend a fortune
in lives
in four thousand year memories
to make Mullahs mighty?
In the lost angels of the Bush night
I embrace anger
over the imprisonment of reason.
Psychos rule and anyone who talks logic
talks French.
Irony and surrealism are my self defense.
My head averts the unbearable pain
lurking near my soul.
The death of beauty.
Working a passion for technology
the Bush gangsters don’t even pretend
they love sunsets.
or a god that glistens in the energy of dreams.
Hamburger esthetics rules their agenda of domination.
To embrace this loss?
Too great is the damage.
No weapons existing to protect me.
The despair following my escape into the trees
with a power saw
and smog.
Avoid the greatest pain.
Combating for reason’s return.
