Twenty Lines for Jim Simmerman
A metaphor:
High ranking elements of the US government had foreknowledge of the
crimes of September 11th and chose not to act to prevent them in order
that the killing of Americans be spun to generate popular support for
a premeditated military invasion of Afghanistan to fulfill the economic
agenda of control of remaining global oil reserves (given that the oil
rich regions of the former Soviet republic could be most easily exploited
by means of a pipeline running through Afghanistan thereby circumventing
Russia and China)
It all smells like a fishy red white and blue guitar solo but tastes
like blood oozing from the wound of a freshly extracted tooth by which
I mean the long-suffering citizens of Afghanistan and Iraq
It is a guitar solo, compelling only in its inevitability, etched
against the night sky like an unabashedly garish Independence Day firework
display
It is conveniently, though perhaps not entirely accurately, personified
by President Bush in Washington D.C.
Well maybe not a guitar solo but a brassy march
Mail bombs are bad for postal workers and for mail artists
Buzzkill, literally
Terrorism causes SUVs
Work it
The shattered steel reinforced concrete of peace
The towers in flames are surrounded by firemen wielding high-pressure
hoses to douse the inferno in crude oil
President Bush has just read every word of a very large and difficult
book about the world and all its cultures and now has a plan for peace
Bill, you asshole
We will rewrite the entire world
The pizza me and Mike ordered back around line 6 is so far entirely
unsubstantiated
The terrorists are evil and you are either with them or with President
Bush and the network of financial interests dictating foreign and domestic
policy his persona stands in for in this poem
Sieg Heil
The oil is lying awake tonight, weeping over the precious blood that
has been wasted on its behalf
The oil is weeping.
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