i am tired
of admiring
caskets carried upon shoulders
rather than low to the ground
the best way to carry a body is not at all
.
weary of
war
candlelight vigils
black veiled lilies corrupting every season
people slaughtered over archaic beliefs
and bad ideas
our trillion dollar death machine technology
the wind tunnel blowing
flags perpetually flying at half-staff
here and abroad
.
i do not accept
exploding politics
locked down schools
trigger happy teenagers
metal detector mantras
and water boarding as a national pastime
which have come to define
what it means
to be an american
living and dying
in modern times
.
a society force fed fear
will cause the margins
to move into a shack
with a lake view of a manifesto
don’t ask why
when we taught the world
how to build a better bomb
.