American Tragedy Poem by Michael Walkerjohn

"Makes one want to vomit, don't it"?

Today
is not a
‘Great Daze'!
"War" has won "War"
is not fun. "War" has lasting
effects, ones that humanity has
yet to reject! In effect, or to affect
upon or to inflict or reflect upon this
or that question of: just whom is wearing
‘the hat'? ‘The Cat'? Begs this question:
"Americant Power"? Really! Is ‘power'
that much of an ‘Americant thing'?
Not in the stretch of any one's imaginations!
And the ‘Sadness of War' is then what part of
‘power'? Also, is ‘Gladness through War', an
appeasement; an effect to ‘please the conscience'
of the citizenry of ‘that nation' utilizing ‘power'
(within a framework of War) to put into place
policies which benefit ‘the few' and financially
break and embarrass the many? How indeed, any
Society's past histories must be shown as comparable
before it is dumbed out of memory and ‘that nation's citizenry'
arise on a day to ‘the truth'; which is no surprise? This too any
individual with a shred of compassion for their fellow brothers
and sisters human… "War", the ‘divinity of such wicked seed'
the necessity it seems of a barbaric species lost behind
protruding eyebrows and apparently permanently stuck in
place behind the tips of noses all dripping of the ‘stool of Masters'
that enjoy having ‘their asps' sniffed deeply! One telling expression
of "War" and its acceptable glorification is that continuation of the
annually presented display of reverence for those ill-taught and
miss-directed brothers and sisters who, "Volunteer" to sacrifice
their minds and bodies as the "proverbial cannon fodder" to
be used by this nation's M.I.C. in the endeavours to improve
"Weapons Systems" or ‘more advanced killing technologies'
or simply to please their own ‘War Mongering Families'!
Whatever! This is just a small part of that disappointing
and sordid history of this nation's "Democracy" and
"Warmongering" led by an extremist, beguiling
world-wide organized "Militaristic Oligarchy"!
What say any of you to this more than confirmable
‘blanket statement'? What further proof does this readership
need? Oh! The overall body-count of the "counted conflicts"
those jest in the past fifteen decades or so! Then add in
that "First Civil War's casualty counts! The tragedy is
that ‘Our Democracy' has developed into the most
murderous ‘War mongering profit making machine'
that has embroiled the ‘species human' in some millennium!
Imagine that! Tens of millions of conflict mortalities and
uncounted societal casualties! These results brought
about by a few individuals on a world-wide basis
just to increase the quarterly rise in the profits
for a few dozens of multi-national corporations
owned by an inter-connected grouping of the world's
‘presumable elites'; that are by ‘their' assumptions
‘above the remaining mass of humanity', because
‘they' lie, cheat, thieve, murder, and control…
the financial interests of every body, human or not
on this planet! Damnit! Are we each occupying our
lifetimes in the ‘wrong business sector'? Why would
an ‘overwhelming financial order', spend the vast majority
of its world-wide ‘capital resources' on the continuation of a
‘superior war machine' economy? Because this is the path
to the most lucrative profitability of all of the ‘human
industrial endeavours'! Yes indeed! "War" is yet, the
most constant and the "most profitable" industry
that humanity has developed in the past quarter
of a million years! This timeline being a more currently
extent of ‘modern human history'… Assuming any of you
are keeping up with the latest results of "the new archaeology"!
And one, must completely ignore the ‘duffers' still puttering
about with ‘their' personally accepted, but unfounded
"levels of token religiosity"! Backing this or that
particular "tokenism" of any assumed, taught
or recognized term of belief; I do propose
that you do not! I do so digress! The cold hard
statistics of an accurate ‘casualty count' that the
more recent "War" allows me to present herein…
The conflict; abet a contrived one, ‘of "ideological
dimensions", "an East-vs-West", those "Reds-vs-U.S."
"Communistic Parades-vs-Capitalistic Charades"! Our
"Weaponry-vs-their determinations" to reunite "their"
country! Yes, IAM now discussing the travesty of the
"War for Vietnam"! If only to expose the composite
and historically incomplete deductions by "Military
Historians" of the numbers of humans "killed or assumed
killed", in a conflict that should never have occurred! Any
position taken must be re-questioned; as this is such the
familiar history of the misery caused by "War" and its
levels of profitability to the corporations within the
M.I.C.! Focus on the current ‘Syrian Predicament'
and simply do the math! What percentage of all
"net profits" of each multi-national weapons
manufacturer is derived from ‘sales' to each ‘player'
in ‘this conflict'? Then ‘expense that figure' to the
"civilian body counts", and see exactly how life
is valued on a "profit per dollar basis"! Yes!
"Human Suffering", has a clear and distinct
‘relationship' to "Weapons Design" and to
"Weapons production Manufacturing"! Question
your hearts on how "Justified" is this! All "War" is
unjustifiable and humanely injurious and is brought
about by ‘disastrous leadership'! Am I not correct in
making this statement? "War" is unjust and is injurious
in any stretch of the imagination in each and every occurrence
across the entire history of the human condition! Then this
presents this question: Are ‘we' to deduce that the
‘species human' is incapable of training itself as a
whole; to be more humane? Leading into a further
question: Are ‘we' to allow the continuation of such a
situation? And your response is a further question to me
as in: Whom is the ‘we', in the midst of all of these questions?
Obviously, the ‘we' are ‘continually watching' the development
and the continuation of the "All of Humanity"; and have done
so since the "beginnings of the species human"! Therefore
the ‘we' you question to be; are above the ‘awe of
humanity', imagine that! The entire history of the
all of the human species, is a matter of record, and
every byte of that collected data; is available to study!
Anyone out there speed-read? Read with speed then what
any definition is of the term ‘redemption'! Then specifically
research the term ‘a soldier's redemption' and from that
refocus upon what would be ‘your redemption' should
you choose to accept that your inactivity is a root cause
for the continuation of this nation's "Economy of War" and
you each as citizens of this country carry the responsibility for
each of the civilian deaths caused in all modern era military
conflict! Do not reject this, do not disrespect the messengers
of this fact! These are among the ‘phatest' of facts! How this
country reacts to the citizens of all this planet's nations is
‘on your backs'! For you elect the individuals responsible
for the decision making choices which lead to all of these
conflicts! You Elect! Then you so casually forget and neglect
and disrespect the responsibility of your citizenship! You return
ever so quickly to your one track mindedness, that quest for
coin and live in your silence and in your fears of never
acquiring enough of those petty things you each think
will bring you happiness. This ‘accepted teaching' is
‘that shame' upon the each of US. While most in an
‘academic community' espouse ambivalence in
thought never placing an emphasis on a firm
conclusion to that issue or this interest where a
discussion must lead to a resolute decision, leaving
most all of the issues unresolved and none, if any resolution
maintaining a groups resolve to solve any issue at all; leaving
every subject, every point, to be further aloof and not tied
into any thought in particular; except that of continuing to
talk… and talk and talk… all that while more and more
citizens of nations are lost; to "War' Aper"! Lost to
the advantage of one multi-national corporation
or another; children and families flayed and
burned and buried without accord or
ceremony or honour… Such the horror!
This all occurs each and every day as you and
yours await your pay, attend to your children at
play, live and stay comfortable behind the ‘shield
of an ideal'; that of America, now not a thought of
any ‘communal prosperity', now just a waning thought
of ‘personal individuality', a thought of ‘that war-mongering
society', one in which all citizens are daily practicing an
‘elitist mindset' of ‘plausible deniability'. Is this not
what is currently presented to all of humanity?
And what "role" is it that you play? An exploitative one?
A proactive and productive one? One foreshadowing the negative
or one enhancing the positive? One guiding symbolic interests or
one directly related to that measurement of how reconciliation
of all the wickedness done for the sake of souls in one society
will make ‘that difference' in the lives of all souls yet to come
into the world at large. How many millions more, are to be
‘martyred' for the ease of profits flowing into corporate
coffers placing a higher value upon the death of life
rather than the "birth of life"? The trillions spent
by governments to project influence and powers
and prominence, trillions spent by corporations' in
the development of more lethal weapons to kill more
humans; more cost effectively, with less cost per kill, and
exhibiting promotion of the productive innovations that your
tax dollars are increasingly being assuaged and staged and
covertly massaged out of socially commendable programs
designed to benefit not just people, but for the reach of
a society towards the future of all of humankind. Therefore
this: Your inactions in the theater of politics has led, and will
continue to be that action which leads to you ‘ultimate slavery'
that of the mind! Of mind impeded by other minds utilizing
technology to induce your ‘deep sleep', keeping you weak
and promoting your poverty, inducing you to keep
scratching for coin and being ignorant of your
true destiny, keeping you in a form of control
one beyond all that you hold to be true. Imagine
you; held in the confines of that which is taught, of
that which holds naught but the whispers of deception
the thoughts spoken which misdirect and train focus away
from the hopeful and into the unfruitful; causing in the
dismembering of all of your individual potential… to
become that leader, that activist that teacher, that
thought provoking mentor bringing curiosity back
into the mix of purpose, into the forceful
stride towards a future's promise… kinda
sorta, makes one want to vomit; don't it!