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Let Them Eat Weapons of Mass Destruction
By Diana Gwinn
March 6, 2004
Dedicated to the children of Kendra James who was killed by a Portland Police Officer On May 5th in NE Portland, 3 yr. old Melvin James & 1 yr. old Marques Farris.
Parading jars of preserved fetuses
Macabre specimens
Pro-life less trophies on a shelf
Pale-pink the color of god
Fetishes suspended in time, nature and space.
Necrophilia shrouded in self-righteousness
Unwise men bearing gifts of Armageddon hell-fire
Snatch life’s breath from children
Rich-brown the color of earth
2 year old Amir Ayyad
& 18-month old Alian Bashiti
Babies living in occupied Palestine
Both shot dead
Israeli bullets to the head.
A kid blown up in Iraq
His name is Ali
Lost both arms
And his whole family.
US led NATO B52’s
Drop 2 thousands pounds of TNT
On a baby girl age three
Her only crime, born a Slav
Her grieving parent’s tears
Censored from our ears.
The 5 year old in Afghanistan
Chasing butterflies of brilliant hue
Picks up a cluster bomb, red, white & blue.
US corporate media whores
Smug spinmeisters snugly embedded
Slaves of the plundering pilfering pentagon
Placate our idols of perversity.
“That’s just the way life is these days”, he said
In far away lands
Like Palestine
Iraq
Yugoslavia and
Afghanistan.
No apologies forthcoming.
That’s just the way life is these days
In places near & dear
Like NE Portland
Inbred incestuous grand jury
Hiding behind closed doors
Playing the same old ugly discordant tune
Politics of Cruelty
No justice coming soon.
Now you can put that on your shelf and stroke it
Or you can put in your pipe and smoke it
Or you can get up, stand up
Stand up for your rights
Get up, Stand up
Never give up the fight!
Diana Gwinn is a 57 year old mother, grandmother and great-grandmother of African, Native American, Mexican (Mestizo) and European ethnicity. Her father who just died was a coal-miner and a WWII combat medic who received 4 bronze stars. Both grandfathers were coalminers. She is the oldest of 10 children.
She was the first in her family to get a college education. She has been an art teacher and she is currently working as a real-estate appraiser. She is also an activist for human rights, justice and peace. And in her spare time she writes, draws, paints, sings and dances.
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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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