Union Songs
Amerika: Home of the slave, land of the flea
A poem by John Tomlinson©2005 John Tomlinson
Dresden, Cologne
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
nuclear weapons
Bikini Atoll
agent orange
Vietnam War
napalmed children
land mines
Diego Garcia
Chagos Islanders
President Allende
death squads
collateral damage
infinite stupidity
bunker busters
Tora-bora Caves
Abraham tanks
daisy-cutter bombs
depleted uranium
Fallujah, Samarra
cluster bombs
shocking awe
Guantanamo Bay
Abu Gharib
extraordinary rendition
installing democracy
star wars
death penalty
capitalist exploitation
massive inequality
endless extermination
and,
all the other things I love about
Amerikan Democracy.
Notes
Many thanks to John Tomlinson for permission to add this poem to the Union Songs collection.
union songs..........a selection by mark gregory