Every single war
is necessary, I am sorry to say,
and so we need to kill people.
You can’t just allow things
to happen, because if you cannot
control them, the bad guys will take over.
We need to kill them all off,
without actually saying we are doing so
for which reason we depend on America.
America. Best propaganda in the world.
Democracy, freedom, human rights!
It’s all a total lie: it doesn’t mean a thing.
Every country that tries to be free
will be smashed into smithereens
like Cuba. Move on, move on
to Vietnam. That didn’t work out either:
the idiots wouldn’t surrender.
OK, never mind, we’ll attack Grenada.
The Gulf War, 1991, aha!
The Vietnam Syndrome is over.
9/11 then happens by accident
Why do these people hate us?
(listen, says Europe, do you really want to know?)
Not really. Let’s attack Iraq.
We have learned so much from Vietnam,
so much so that we’ll do it all over again.
Dead kids. Crippled teenagers.
It’s all very sad but the thing to remember
is we don’t have the draft.
No college kids need to die,
Just the kids from the poor families
and the sons of the immigrants we despise.
These are the guys who do the fighting and dying
along with all those weird military Southerners
who are the backbone of the Army.
It doesn’t matter. Of course it matters!
People are plunged into poverty.
These kids are dying for no reason.
Politics has become the playground of millionaires.
Liberty and freedom has become a distant memory.
This shining Republic is in mortal danger.
Anger
Hello dedalus
I hope you feel better now you got all that off your chest. Writing is cathartic.
While the cause is worthy, (I think) and the anger and frustration came through loud and clear, you might want read the piece again after you've calmed down.
Seems there is a basic flaw in that the first couple of verses says its ok to wage war and kill off lots of people provided they are baddies.
But America is not being fair cause they use real people who get killed and hurt by the poor good people being attacked by the bad Americans so America is in deep danger and we should revolt and kill the millionaires and government.
What a load of bullshit and fanatical raving rhetoric !!
IMHO there is nothing of any literary value here either. Readers don't like being told what to do or what to think, particular in such well worn clichéd unimaginative demands in a tone reminiscent of a bar argument.
"Sorry buddy if you want to get your message through via this media you'll have to do a lot better before any intelligent person will take you seriously."
Naturally this comment is addressed to the narrator not the author.
May I suggest trying a different angle.
I hope you feel better now you got all that off your chest. Writing is cathartic.
While the cause is worthy, (I think) and the anger and frustration came through loud and clear, you might want read the piece again after you've calmed down.
Seems there is a basic flaw in that the first couple of verses says its ok to wage war and kill off lots of people provided they are baddies.
But America is not being fair cause they use real people who get killed and hurt by the poor good people being attacked by the bad Americans so America is in deep danger and we should revolt and kill the millionaires and government.
What a load of bullshit and fanatical raving rhetoric !!
IMHO there is nothing of any literary value here either. Readers don't like being told what to do or what to think, particular in such well worn clichéd unimaginative demands in a tone reminiscent of a bar argument.
"Sorry buddy if you want to get your message through via this media you'll have to do a lot better before any intelligent person will take you seriously."
Naturally this comment is addressed to the narrator not the author.
May I suggest trying a different angle.
Of desert and Mountain