So now they enter with the battering rams executing
the aforesaid game plans.
Or maybe the attack is wholly unconscious and unintended
(The dead of Pan Am 103 included Syracuse students but also some
spies going home on holiday.)
The consequences of complicity come in many ways and we cannot divorce
our-
selves from any of them.
Military aircraft falls from the sky that hurts too.
Heavy metals and strontium in the water table are not passive.
The fire it did burn at noon and either it was set from inside
or something else but even collateral damage is
part of the deal, all wrapped up.
Every shooting among the rest of us is a self-inflicted wound.
Eventually the rest of us draw the blustery attention of the bureaucracy
and
it comes in the form of your mother's face.
The police are in the service of property and fraudulent
affidavits clang the prison doors shut how many people can we
put there how many food services contracts can be awarded doesn't this
hurt?
We have more in common with the beaten than the beaters.
Maybe someday soon we'll find a way to kill the kids too without blinking.
© 1995 Daniel
X. O'Neil
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