A Wider Beam

Night after night, images flicker on the tube Horrific images of ‘the enemy’ dying Dying ‘Agent-Orange’ deaths ~ Seems America can do no right… Night after night, images darken the screen Palestinian women and children Starving, dying in droves obscene ~ Seems Israel can do no right… Night after night, viewing the horror of war Provide no context for what came before No videos of Communist Vietnam’s brutality No memory of Israelis burned and butchered, October 7 fatalities… Watching a steady stream of ‘enemy’ deaths Viewers become exhausted, out of breath Gradually they identify with the foe Cheering on Ho, (Ho, Ho Chi Minh) Jeering at Bibi and (Genocide) Joe ‘Truth’ is only on the screen, or so it seems ~ History projects a wider beam