Objector

 In line at lunch I cross my fork and spoon
to ward off complicity--the ordered life
our leaders have offered us.
 Thin as a knife,
our chance to live depends on such a sign
while others talk and The Pentagon from the moon
is bouncing exact commands: "Forget your faith;
be ready for whatever it takes to win: we face
annihilation unless all citizens get in line.
"

I bow and cross my fork and spoon: somewhere
other citizens more fearfully bow
in a place terrorized by their kind of oppressive state.

Our signs both mean, "You hostages over there
will never be slaughtered by my act.
" Our vows
cross: never to kill and call it fate.

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