the greatest generation heir to the legacy of warfare continental saviors of western civilization americanized europe gibbering excessive thanks in the form of free trade and defensive capitulation in the face of american military superiority?
vast horizons part thighs the cold war and the viet cong domino theory and mai lai clash the civil rights war and the sexual revolution witnessed in growing bewilderment and trepidation by mister and missus joe camel suburban social security corporate welfare redlining and job security support the ideology of white entitlement a xenophobic bubble left blowing in the wind.
the 70s oil crisis black power and gay rights condemn watergate the resultant rise of the left stokes the flames of right-eous fear provokes global retaliation arms-for-sale hostages of the ayotollah the iranian shah's deposed in the shadow of right-winged support federal reserves held in checks balanced by the might of the rich and powerful worthless money printed at will the poison of a powerful elite masquerading as middle class its illumined mores emblazoned upon the flesh of fallen foes cold warriors fighting bolshevik shadows a silent enemy that seems more like a silent-but-equal partner in the subversion of the lower classes chanting mantra-like
the rich will get richer and the poor ...
will be weaponized
AIDS laboratory-birthed biological terrorism blamed on african beastiality inquiring minds thenceforth to inquire no more fluctuating stocks and reaganomics voodoo economists break-dancing for food in the shadow of wall street's slave market iran-contra and the falklands gird the bastions of network television as cable rises and the vast middle class sleeps beneath the weight of hallucinatory complacency!
globalism and an ever-shrinking world outsourcing of maquiladoras and southeast asian nike sweatshops cloth the slavering masses as middle-age becomes dotage the gulf war rings martial bell-tones veterans of foreign wars ever-valiant defenders of liberty don moth-ridden uniforms in a memorial daze marching cross't the cracked pavement of broken dreams and lowering standards of living.
911 rapes american complacency leaving lady liberty shivering naked and cold freedom succumbs to greed stability sacrificed to the gods of economic might corporate downsizing morphs into governmental upsizing all in the name of homeland security services foundering in lieu of truly faith-based commitment millions migrate to the lower classes as the middle class rots and the upper middle lower upper divide hides the true siphoning of a nation's wealth media in cunning collaboration cosigns to the crimes whilst the sleepers sleep in debt to their crown chakras living check to check
History in a nutshell. Sometimes I long for the Summer of Love when MLK and JFK made sense, you could pick up hitch hikers, the Black Panthers beat drums on my car hood on Fillmore, and we laid Vietnam down in a purple haze. AIDs and the terrorist strike is, somehow, more sinister than the Atom bomb.
Fascinating poetry with a strong political view. You write articulately about issues with great social significance. You've certainly broadened my thinking. Thanks
Chanti
Reviewed by Vesna Perkovic (Reader)
Reviewed on June 14, 2005
THIS should be plastered on all bulletin boards..what a VOICE you are..bravo!!!!
"The Greatest Generation" has delivered the files of our times.
Message is flaged as "ALERT MAXIMUM."
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Council of Churches, OTAN and United Nations Security Council that says AYE to its Five Permanent Members.
Fourth Book in the Southern Swallow Series finds the Academician Li K'ai-men in exile on Hai-nan Island. China has a new invasion threat. A showdown between ingenuity and technology explodes as the Sung Dynasty tries to preserve itself.
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"The Greatest Generation" has delivered the files of our times.
Message is flaged as "ALERT MAXIMUM."
The Benighted Nations are allowing, and the Global Slavery Company is increasing its Jurisdiction with full support of Vatican, World
Council of Churches, OTAN and United Nations Security Council that says AYE to its Five Permanent Members.
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU