several sets of hands to add up the corruption

several sets of hands to add up the corruption





back before the cia
was
operating its own death squads
unilaterally
alongside the russians 
and
president raygun was offing arms
to south america
like he alone was the major shareholder
in multiple
armaments corporations
there were
american citizens who
firmly believed
that peace was a thing
you could possess
and not have to go all white man invader
over the indigenous
so now
in retrospect
whoever was it thought that
for us to be the best
all we had to do was represent
truth and justice
surely was stoking a prejudice
fueled by a family crest
representing
pure evil to begin with.





sjw 07/28/18 inspired at this very moment in time by the reflections off the fifty five gallon water storage drum there at the my lai massacre.






from the 'bewitched series' of poems