one day
you wake up
everything
is unrecognizable
nothing
ever again
is the same
that pathetic bear
those pacing lions
troubled gorilla
still on those
cement pads
caged behind
those forbidding
black iron bars
all the captive birds
imprisoned monkeys too
every single one
lying dead
what was
that cruel zoo
relics and remnants
out in the fueled street
unruly shooting
bloated bodies
friends and neighbours
those you never knew
rotting corpses
shattered trees
once majestically grew
along every busy avenue
now ranks of troops
groups of roaring tanks
rumbling down
every belching street
blasting holes
killing snipers
holed up
in burning suites
utter destruction
total war
enemy standouts
smoldering pockets
destroying holdouts
inglorious combat
blowing up
every lasting residence
untold fatal resistance
your great leaders
have poisoned
their children
murdered their wives
shot themselves
in their crippled heads
mustered soldiers
wearing clustered uniforms
you once saluted
everyone demoralized
crying and freezing
marching innocents
in the winter cold
starving hordes
millions upon millions
slogging to their
untimely death
the magnificent fuhrer
tells his commander
I'll shoot myself
in the head
stodgily remarking
victory is lost
then you know
what to do
national commitment
this irrational war  
hail to their bloody flag
tragedy at any cost
this human study
what would
Mohammad
and Jesus
think or do
is war the answer
supporting regimes
that wretched stink
what would
majestic God
consummately say
about this
penultimate
inhuman fray
this ultimate
roustabout calamity
everything
paramount
day has gone
night has come
everyone
deranged
world leaders
still so vain
thinking
bombs and bullets
making war
complete destruction
disastrously wishing
upon some infernal star
suspect planning
behind locked doors
crouched deep inside
their protective bunkers
extroverted dreaming
counting on fortune and fame
grim political power
such a dark unrelenting game
babble from those golden towers
days of crazed madness
weeks of lies and distorted glower
all for feeble fascist gain
months of misguided instruction
years of conviction
that is insane


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