The heat of summer
lingering in that alien taint of foreign land
Homs breaks in the
aperture of shattered glass and ramshackle stucco
Odd collections of
education pasted in rebar and concrete mortar amusement
Stateside swimming
pools and Jurassic World global gross box office thumping
And some kids are not
going back to school this autumn
Outside al-Assad civil
war and rebellion and the Reagan orthodox of chaos and order
Fundamentalism and
fascism with the will of the people in the fulcrum of a playground seesaw
Lit up in the firefight
of Damascus scatter smoke ISIS and the roaches in the bag of wheat
Scattering out into a
crumpled kitchen with no electricity to bake leavened bread
Ba’ath Party routines
of towels left in a cabinet to set foot on an oil slicked floor
Segregating
coagulating ink blots in a bombardier painted Rorschach test of global empathy
Puddles of blood twenty
two and a half million Syrians, two-hundred and fifty thousand dead
Eighteen million in
country with forty plus percent displaced and four million more refugees
Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq,
Egypt, Jordan for most and a few thousands trek mercenary night-boats
To bankrupt E.U.
bailout Greek isles and the world media goes ape-shit
Trump is bloated chicken-wig
pimping Mexican walls and New York is still picturing
Phantom airplanes colliding
with the ghosts of buildings in cake-dust zombies unloading at Ellis Island
We are watching a
Neanderthal bed a firecracker in an ant hill over Arab Spring pots boiling over
expediting his own extinction
Four years later of
domestic gassing nameless masses and Aylan Kurdi washes up on a beach
Smugglers and rape,
Afghanistan, Eritea: Bomaye! Bomaye! Bomaye!
Play battleship in the
Mediterranean for a stock price and hold the Euro
While Putin and Xi
Jinping fund a proxy to show what happens to uprising
Stem a tide in another
nation’s blood to prove that if Russia or China is willing to fund al-Assad
To put bullets into
the bellies of his own; they would be open and have done the same
If anyone came for
their heads and so the viscera of powerful men clench fuels of control spent in
fear
While ISIS spins in a
slide scale dervish whisking fundamentalist theistic rhetoric
Throughout like chaos
itself splintering minds and bombing hearts
America is willing to
stay clear because the old lesson of Vietnam forgotten fourteen years ago today
With xenophobic NASCAR
revving USA! USA! USA! is suddenly recollected to
Play with the shits
left in the kitty litter in Baghdad and the urine soaked sheets waving goodbye
in Kabul
For red rover, red
rover, Putin come over and smack the fuck out of ISIS birthed out of our bush
You can have Ukraine
just don’t make us enter the game, because the Dow is up, unemployment down
And America is
war-weary and the sounds of bodies leaping off towers had a cinematic ending to
the trilogy of helicopter seals shooting Bin Laden in India’s splinter Islamic
appendix
And we, we got nothing
for this, but staring up on a google search for a few names and a tomb-less
lurch
Of bodies crawling out
our own insides to see one humanity and yet abide
The way of is, the way
of was, to let the water flip over the boat of distraction before it gets to us
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