A DROP OF WATER

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Iraq torture 'worse after Saddam'
"Many bodies have missing skin, broken bones, back, hands and legs, missing eyes, missing teeth and wounds caused by power drills or nails, the UN report says.
Victims come from prisons run by US-led multinational forces as well as by the ministries of interior and defense and private militias, the report said."

Go ahead and scream Goddamnit!
Call out to your sweet Goddamned worship!
Howl from your hell of Goddamned throbbing!
Overlook the phantoms Goddamnit!
Castigate the living Goddamnit!
There’s honor in that! (At least it’s something…)

Strip the brown, pallid skin down to bone.
Strip the bared bone down to marrow.
Snap the back and crack the hand!

Are you doing what you can to save America?
Are you insuring that our planes stay aloft?
That their roar comes not crashing souls?
Who have you tortured today?
If no one, you're a traitor to America!
You do not respect her will!

Strip the brown, pallid skin down to bone.
Strip the bared bone down to marrow.
Snap the back and crack the hand!

Destroy life without murdering the physical being;
the definitive atonement of the insane.
Rid the world of joy,
adorn it in tongueless mourning
and the spirit of the black horse
is yours to saddle.

The sinister hand of torture is at the door.
Can you not hear it tapping?
It wants to enter and lash your children,
bend your fingers back to wrist,
shackle you, and cackle
with each drop of water
that
sinks
into
your
brow.

Strip the brown, pallid skin down to bone
and you’ve won.
Strip the bared bone down to marrow
and you’ve conquered.
Snap the back and crack the hand
and you’re king!


Copyright © 2006 mrp / thepoetryman


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AN ANGRY MAN'S WAVERING HAND

So it’s come to this…
A rabid dog in a fetid room.
One. One. One. One. One.
A lone juror broke the back of our mighty equus.
One juror sang the aria of forgiveness
While the rest blared U-S-A.

O! Seal the shining ramparts!
Shore up the reserves!
Summon the free and the brave!
Glean the twilight's last sparkle!
Send in the death squads!
Man has wavered, once again.

It’s the lick of blood we want, Goddamnit!
Not prison! Not shackles! Not cable TV!
It’s revenge we want.
Not a godawful shanking in the yard.

Not justice.
It is an eye for an eye we need, Goddamnit!
Not rationale.

Kill the Arab man!
Devour his children!
We needn’t have costly trials.
Kill them all! Nuke `em!
Arab, Muslim, godless!
Blast them all to hell, Goddamnit!
This destruction needn’t waiver.
We will march and we will kill.
And kill and kill and kill, Goddamnit!

Our tragic day calls for the world
To suffer in abject misery!
America will see to it, Goddamnit!
We’ll see them all burn and choke
On the pungent stench of hubris!
We’ll watch as they bend and split
In reprisal’s honored annihilation!
Blow for blow, Goddamnit!
Limb for limb, Goddamnit!
And hell for Goddamned hell!

Copyright © 2006 mrp