What Rough Beast | Poem for February 25, 2019

Remy Dambron
spaceforce 1

covert room

classified

concealing

operations

contractors

computer screens

satellite delineations

city maps

middle east

mad dog mattis

giving orders

joysticks

drone strikes

security for our borders

poor huddled masses

seeking asylum

marketed as

invasion

prey on their fear

go cavalier

fox indoctrination

war on terror

war on drugs

military supremacy

thousands of bases

purely invasive

mobilizing our

embassies

foreign combatants

armed insurgents

state-sponsored terrorists

strategic missiles

bombing raids

evening news therapists

harmless civilians

innocent children

women families and friends

houses transformed

craters reborn

communities put to an

end

conflict zone

coalition

right-wing strikes

again
intervention

corrupt intention

dictatorship ascends

shootings in church

shootings in school

class remains in session

arm the teachers

guard the preachers

respond with more aggression

blame the democrats

bomb the democrats

incriminate the press

gaslight the nation

inflate his dictation

obstruction of due

process

great neglections

fake elections

high-profile esoterica

puppet masters

tv stars

real

world

america

Remy Dambron is a Portland-based activist and environmentalist. His works have appeared in What Rough Beast, naturewriting.com, and the Veggie Wagon Journal. He has been honored by the Society of Classical Poets for speaking out against human rights violations and is currently working on his first chapbook in political verse denouncing political corruption.

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