We come now
Sober from anger,
Sober from anguish,
Sober from the lies
Foisted upon us day after day,
Night after night, the blinking
Nights of late night news, the
Repetitious rhetoric of
Bush, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft
Repeating and repeating
Everyone is mad
Except them,
Everyone is
The enemy
Except them,
Everyone is a
Terrorist,
Except them,
Everyone is out
To destroy
Democracy
Except them
We come now
Sober from lost
Sleep, from jobs
That have simply
Evaporated,
From savings and pensions
That have
Vanished,
We come now
To realizations, sobering
Thoughts
That this America
Is no longer
The land of freedom of
Speech, or freedom of
Protest, but is now a
Bastion
That has been
Transformed, no, in reality,
Captured, nay,
Destroyed in
Two short years
With storm troopers
Sent throughout the
World, to quiet
Dissent, that
Those who oppose
This new SS
Is made up only of
Terrorists, those who
Oppose us in Iraq, are not
Iraqis, they are now
"Saddam loyalists" or "foreigners,"
in Afghanistan, everyone is
Taliban, or "foreign terrorists,"
But,
Our men are not foreigners, not
Occupiers, we
Still proudly wear
White hats, just as in
Our movies, Bruce Willis
And his cohorts take on
A thousand rag-headed
Arabs and vanquish
Them, all within an hour
And a - half, save the world
For blondes and
Democracy, and Bruce and Arnold
Never even break
A sweat, nor lose
An ounce of blood, just
Like our troops in
Afghanistan, "nobody dies"
They come home
Victorious, kill 7 of their
Wives, wound over 30
Others and beat up
Over 2 dozen men —but
They are heroes, they
Are the saviours of
Democracy, they are
The enforcers, they
Are the real life
Bruce, Arnold --
But when Bruce and Arnold
Go home at night, they
Knock off a cold beer
Go out to
Party, and forget about
Killing
Until the next year's
Film —but these
New killers, they sober
Us, because now, we
Are aware, sobered
To realize
That on another day
When the poor in America
Demonstrate
Too hard, when the millions
Of unemployed speak up Against Bush too loud, or
Some loud and protesting lawyers
And plain citizens
Oppose Ashcroft's detentions,
These same troops will be
Called upon to stop
These new "fifth column
Infiltrators," these new
"American traitors" that must
be stopped —
and so our troops will level
their guns, fire and
the blood will be that
of their own
cousins, of their
neighbors —yours and mine
Who foolishly
Didn't understand
In time
That only Bush,
Only Ashcroft, only
Rumsfeld, know the truth,
That only they
Are to be obeyed, beyond anything some
"terrorist" may say about the
Constitution or Bill of Rights
So we come today,
Sober from anger,
Sober from the lies
We've been told night after night, day
After day, to finally
Realize
This America we fought for, others
Died for
The America we were taught to believe in —
Is no more
© 2003 - Sam Hamod