Postscript to America
America...the whole
world is grieving your tragedy
but we're worried about your knee jerk
anger and fear
Your superhero superpower ego took a beating
when those bastards
hit the towers laughing:
"Praise the Lord! The end is near!"
Out of the blue Indian Summer sky
like a scene out of a blockbuster movie
come true
Out of the blue terror struck Wall Street
and the Pentagon
broadcast live
via satellite all over the news
The world is in
mourning for you America
Even most of your enemies have expressed
their dismay
but the way you keep advertising "America's
New War"
makes even your best friends question
what you say
America...ever since the Cold War ended
you're not really sure who your enemies
are
so it must be frustrating when the latest
foe appears to be
a fanatical cult of suicidal assassins
out of the dark ages
trying to lure you into a World War to
settle old scores
from
before you were born
but when
you call this a Crusade America
you surrender
America to their terms
Meanwhile...your
real enemy within is hiding behind the Bushes
They've infiltrated your secret services
and your National Defense
They've given American Intelligence a
bad name all over
Even in your own Hollywood movies they're
always the bad guys
Am I not making sense?
America...
your own government is training terrorists
down in Georgia
Why don't you try some of that Infinite
Justice down there
and shut down the School of the Americas'
training camps
or consider your leaders in violation
of their own terms of war?
America...
when are you gonna put that Good Old Boys
Club out of business?
They've
already hijacked your Constitution at gun point
and taken over Washington
They've shredded your Bill of Rights "for
reasons of national security"
to make America
safe for the un-American activities of the right
America...
now they're violating the Geneva Convention
They're breaking international treaties
on everything
from free trade
to climate change to nuclear weapons
bullying the rest of the world into exchanging
democracy for corporate feudalism
by signing agreements they proceed to disregard
whenever it bloody well suits them
America...
you've become the most dangerous rogue
state on the planet
in the hands of a gang of totalitarian thugs
who've just pulled America out of a historical
treaty on war crimes
afraid they might be found guilty themselves
So when you talk about Enduring Freedom
America
we really want to believe you
but that's hard to do
when you've been living under War On Drugs
martial law since the Cold War
You talk about an open society...
...Yeah? Open for who?
Is it open for business as usual?
Is it open for your millions of inner
city poor?
Is it open for the homeless mentally ill?
Is it open for the casualties of
the crime you call the Vietnam War?
America...
you've got hundreds of thousands
of harmless artists
mothers, farmers and carpenters in prison
for grass
who've been enduring your version of freedom
in long sentences
That's not a War On Drugs America...That's a War On Dissent
It never really was just a War On
Drugs America anyway
when the CIA was selling America cocaine
by the ton
to raise covert
funding for their terrorist contras
to wage their dirty little wars against
the poets of Chile and Nicaragua
So now your secret agencies have got another
dirty little secret war
and you've given them more power than
they've ever had before
You've handed
over your civil liberties America
What was it you said you were fighting for?
© 2006 Gary Lee