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HARDLINERS
By David Lawrence Cade
April 17, 2004
A little onward,
they saw Planet X
Within the woods, a tall alien
Heavy with camouflage; thereat, he cried
"Peninsula Strike."
"Now, General, my
skill you may behold
"In the algorithms of your search for heads to roll.
"All arts, this army
knows,
"Each with the wisdom of his AK-47."
But in one insurgent’s wit is the perfect gift -
The sight of one thin child, dead in its Iraqi father’s arms -
And not more.
From yonder Pentagon tree,
So many leaves and fruits,
Its Desert Scorpion fallen there upon the earth.
Just one truce above
a thousand of the leaves,
And one peace above a hundred of the fruits;
On those two limbs – Sunni and Shiia –
Hang on dancing leaves five pillars
At the exact core of the modern dilemma
And should the Coalition pluck one bough
Together with its shoots,
On those twin boughs
Swing twice a 9/11, unchecked.
And the Scorpion Sting answered:
"Imperceptible to
me,
"What the occupied land boasts,
"We are slayers of your foes –
"Those Spartan Scorpions, Baathists
"To which I will put to proof,
"Hewing down resistance,
"Having counted and closed the voice of opposition."
American Sidewinder
Before the world’s eyes,
The branches of the Euphrates lopped in two.
Proving Fallujah
otherwise,
Whether this be or be not?
The army will climb Soda Mountain
Counting each Ivy Needle on its Ivy Serpent
Before admitting its atrocities witnessed
By thousands the month of April.
The humvee chariots before the unapologetic
Bush burning, his own set purpose serving.
"The time is not now to delay," the alternative voice.
America driven on by itself, its Longstreet,
Could be driven out of Iraq
By itself. The desert road is good,
But the Chamberlain appointed,
A sort of Sweeney,
not among the palm nightingales,
But in an Ivy Cyclone, the curse of the U.S. military
An anti-war dust storm,
If not mirrored in Ivy Cyclone II.
On that the
ayatollah answered soothingly:
"There is not in the earth another Iron Hammer
"That can break the Iraqi will,
"And by your Bulldog Mammoth
"I look to reach our people,
"Despite your Red Dawn,
"For Allah is a steed tamer,
"Your generals trust in Iron Justice.
"Our faith will not let that be a hindrance now.
"Yet would I our land not suffer
"For what your leaders ask,
"And the pilgrims surely will reach
"The gates of the shrines,
"Before your Rifles Fury
"Has reached the west.
"I will keep my word.
"Allah is ill pleased.
"Halt then, and count the civilian dead.
"No changing one bough to the other,
"Which channel to switch,
"For the fruits of American aggression
"Will show refugees leaping from car to car,
"All the world awe-struck
"At your Iron Grip
"Suffocating our land."
Even mosques and sanctities
Targeted in the Market Sweep
Of heavy weapons and missiles being used
The signatories, the brotherhood,
The movement leaders, tribal chiefs,
Read the headlines of innocent martyrs,
The lament of thousands wounded,
Facing Saber Turner II,
Shouting "Stop this."
The hardliners are American crimes,
The Bush league the innovators,
Trailblazers in preemptive evil,
Radical solution, to turn to Suicide Kings
To neutralize suicide bombers
And the Iron Promise of a threatened walkout -
Refusing as Americans to be considered partners to the crime
Of a U.S. – led spilling of Iraqi blood,
The Coalition signing in red,
But the plot of the Vigilant Resolve –
Alias Sarajevo on the Euphrates
Thwarted by solidarity,
The trigger to unity unfolding –
Sealed off from the terrorism of the one-year occupation.
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| Earth, a planet hungry for peace |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python. (Alquds,10/25/03). |
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