Television:
An old woman, head drooping,
Sullen in weedy
graveyard
As if, suddenly she gave a fuck
Now that he's
dead.
Where was your dedication while he breathed?
Television:
Strapping marines, truncheons flailing,
Rifle butts pounding like
drumsticks,
Children dropping limply
unconscious,
Blood, pain, savage villainy.
How fortunate
that we have marines.
We can identify the worst madness of
our species.
Television:
Fingers groping from under the rubble,
Feeling
for rescue, seeking a touch,
Crying for salvation.
The
hypocrite Christian preacher
Argues about whom his evil god
should kill.
Television:
Republicans lying through their teeth,
Taking
graft, doing harm, looting the workers.
Republicans selling
our souls and nation.
Corporations are your gods, oil is your
blood.
CNN biographies your killing is your heart.