Sky Flames
The general loved missiles.
He got a tattoo of one.
A big super-duper boom stick.
Boeing MX Peacekeeper ICBM.
Ten MIRV'd 335 kiloton warheads.
City killers on our heathen commie enemies.
The inker moaned like a boiler.
Huffing and puffing.
You represent evil.
You're the military industrial complex.
You're gonna wipe us all out.
And a dozen more rants.
The general sat there.
Listening and getting his tat.
Why didn't you say no, son?
You never had to do my tattoo?
What you represent is madness.
All that firepower, aimed at Russia.
Well son, that's the way the world works.
They aim their SS20s at us.
It's all madness.
Nice tattoo by the way.
I'll remember you when Reagan orders me
to order my boys to push the red button.
IBM
UBM
ICBM
On the floor.
Get a gun!
Get anything you could grab,
Get a feather, get a pen,
And a parchment,
Oh! Beauty dove,
And start revolting in your own way,
Your pen is an ICBM,
More powerful than the US’s
And the North Koreans’
The nuts!!
Propaganda and mind-control,
Information,
Globalisation, bullying,
Corporations, multi-nationals,
Multi-what?? ****??
Slavery, a human for a dollar,
A woman for a cent, for a minute,
Babies for sale, refugees,
Refugitives
Just greed! Greed and more greed!
More hungry mouths,
Not enough to feed,
We need change,
We need a U turn,
But when you only turn,
With no return,
Back to nature,
Back to simplicity,
Back to my written letter,
Scrub this bloody email and delete it,
Let’s be together,
And be one simple soul,
Then we may be able to see this change.
How to make the deadly seem less murderous,
ICBM, AIDS, HIV,
ICBM, AIDS, HIV,
ICBM, AIDS, HIV,
ICBM, AIDS, HIV...
Acronyms make the fatal commonplace,
Eviscerate the emotion, like machine code,
Surgically remove the humanity...
DOA, MIA, CCF,
DOA, MIA, CCF,
DOA, MIA, CCF,
DOA, MIA, CCF...
Pretty soon nothing will be real,
And fear will be devoured by letters,
We will smile by the bonfires...
CJD, FAM, ME,
CJD, FAM, ME,
CJD, FAM, ME.
Alphabetic fragments of bite-sized tragedy,
Easy to swallow?
Or maybe not...
FSD, USA - FU!
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