Bleeding for America

We are the great society (bound to the Americanrégime,there were no snow white blossoms
way)we fight and die for countries, insanely, and endever seen, not forso many years, only blood, blood and
upwith piled high bodies...like stacks of hay.more bloodshed, how can you sleep, and not weep, all
Even with the shortage of gas we invade, buythis bloodin the name of good. America, the last
yachts,and skyscrapers, homes on beaches in Costahavenfor God's people, what have we done?
Rica.Has not Vietnam, my war, taught us anything? Strange
We are no longer nesters, rather, birds eatingWorlds may not wish to reach our shores, to eat
seaweedor dope, booze, anything for a quick high.ourturkeys and drink our whiskey, and sing our songs.
We run our lawnmowers, dance in the rain, hangButwe cry "Remember the Alamo," as if it is ourduty
froma trapeze, playing the wrestler games; a society into incorporate them, the world at our hands.
abubble, living like kings; evangelists stealing everything.Washington, the court of the Black Angels,where
Presidents and Congress, murdering, whilesugar and cars and milk and drinking waterand dead
everyonegoes to the movie theaters, sit in a gaze, asolders, and armies are reviewed, from thetop of
trance,as if in coffins, hibernating the winter's away.trees, like honey bees. War and silence, that isthe
The darkness has not lifted yet, for Iraq; the warname of the game (keep it under surveillance,behind
continuesin the back streets of Baghdad, andhidden eyes, keep the people guessing,walking in
throughout the country'sheated sands. The soldiersopposite directions), keep a balancewith the negro, and
psychological profiles are piled high,they are dying in thethe same with the Mexican, or makethem
soil bleeding for America: yellow,brown, black andbleed-steadily.
white, with broken spirits; reporterslying and dying, andWe are nothing but cows in a barn, being milked,while
all in bitter fatigue, so sad.being flattered with flowers thrown overhead,and the
How strange it must be, to awake in a city thatpoor soldiers die, as if they are someone's enemy,yet
bleedsand adult men, shooting at each other, night andthey know nothing of the countries they defend,and
day!such countries are really not our friends.
And somewhere in the sands, are groups ofNo rich man's son will die today, just beyond the
exhaustedsoldiers digging muddy gravels. Boilingedgethe edge of the sands, where the ground
temperatures,voices white from fright! But we still killexplodesterror and death lurk and linger, here
and fight, bleedfor America, under a flag that says:helicoptersand boys will be left, heads blown off,
might is right...!opened chests,guts laying exposed on their torsos, and
Bush, Bush, Bush, you will be out of office, soon, thankthose that go home,so starts the sufferings all over
God,and I voted for you, like a hungry dog, whileagain, a stringy line ofquivering animals trying to get
amongthose around me, whispers were saying,help at the VA-hospitals.
"Don't,he's going to shed more blood." During yourIt is all so immense, that at the end, we die for nothing.