Observations on September 11, 2001
written by
Michael Thomas Ballard
on September 12, 2001
murder is not a legitimate
political weapon
murderers
should be jailed for life
they're bad
for our health
fundamentalism is a dangerous ideology
no matter
what its dogmatic flavor
oh suicidal
self-abnegation
is your name
only kamikaze
if I thought
the "U. S.
then i'd
guess i'd think that god was on my side
especially if
I was dirt poor and ignorant
"gott
mit uns" was inscribed on the belt buckles
of german
soldiers
who took off
to smash the U.S.S.R on june 22, 1941
hitler
"heroically" shot himself four years later
feeling
betrayed by "his" deutsches volk
now
let us hear
the war cries coming from the bravest of the future non-combatants
many of them
"our" leaders
"let us
prey,"
they say out
loud
for the teevee audiences of the world
half devoured
children dripping from their mouths
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