Beyond the mundane world
I seek world peace a joke
to some who see whirled peas
Under no condition
do I choose to delude
myself with the humor
Demonstrated at hand
with how impossible
our task presents itself
Deny yourself humor
when you know how remote
the day to come we seize
Humor with a hard look
to face sarcasm down
as bad faith at the well
A wish dreams of a world
where hope ruffles no bird
found on an oil slick beach
--
Defense contracts ensure
big business war profits
collateral damage
Humors no one in brass
except the most jaded
soldier on base rumor
As heard off-base reveals
this man sick in the brain
with a tumor his health
Rest assured does not make
his schadenfreude less
poignant when others lose
Mothers fathers children
to a wanton missile
we shrug at the news tell
Anyone who asks that God
acts in mysterious
ways a lesson we teach
--
Soldiers themselves to say
in order to lessen
the truth behind ravaged
Artillery-shelled homes
where civilians survive
as maimed shells flesh and bone
No one here will listen
to another story
the other side must tell
Guess who suffers their loss
blind to our own conscience
within our guts we choose
However bad the news
to look away and shrug
or else we turn to stone
Ask Medusa to stare
into the mirror held
by Perseus hard sell
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