INDUSTRIALISED & GLOBALISED (Redux)

Incorporated Slaughter
The War on Terror
A war that never ends
Paying great dividends
To the shareholders
Of Globalised Murder
A hostile takeover
Tribal and Fundamental
Privilege and power
Seized … never to yield
This world has become
An Industrialised Battlefield

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The Shuttle Bus Intifada (Part 1)

“First we take the Ukraine
. . . then we take Taiwan.”

~ Neo Babylon

As punishment
for my crime of celestial lust
a life sentence
aboard a Jerusalem shuttle bus
all covered in desert dust
and full of Chinese tourists
having just escaped
the fall of Paris
all wearing long lens cameras
around their necks
and surgical grade face masks
With me forced to view
and then compliment
their digital photographs
All street scenes
and military instillations
But that’s crime and punishment
aboard a Jerusalem shuttle bus

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