Sunday, August 31, 2014

Old Drumroll


The heavy ready maybe steady
Going, coming, busting levees
Settled, battled, rattled cattle
Herding, mooing, alarmed, subduing

The mass melting in the bluest flame
Disguising the idea that there is a place to go
Armageddon on the airwaves; kitty is asking
Daddy makes up a lie rather than say no

Are we going to be all right? Is everything ok?
Shoot the line between the truth and a mistake
Sometimes there is a pressure the rainbow can’t take
The prism refracts the crowd into blindness

Gawk sheep with cannibal beaks
Pecking at the tattoos of war where the spirit leaks
This ink, this was me, at that time very much alive
A picture of a memory stamped on to defend the old drumroll

From forgetting the outline of empathy
As humans scurry in the corporate huddle
Firing bullets towards insurgents using kids as shields
Shot them both to help the world heal

Bodies floating in the flood as the dam breaks after the storm
Lightning struck mole hills from the thunder medicine from the mountain
Put the spotlight on the consolation while the host walks out back with the grand prize
Can you look a stock price in the eyes?

Busy suit and tan skin, slicked hair and demon grin
Petraeus totes the Bible with a psalm of righteousness on the wind
Damn the Koran and the despots America inserts to start the cartoons
Bodies burnt coming home to dust tombs

No atheists in foxholes or fox news,
Aircraft carriers with bush-leaguer festoons
World extinction on parade foretold

Prayers for what; story is old 

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