How is it
that the wealthiest
and most extravagantly armed power
ever to bestride the planet
Has come to use
the most expensive
and sophisticated, high-tech weapons
ever devised by man
To slaughter
the wedding processions
wood-gathering parties
and sleeping women and children
Of the poorest
and simplest peoples
In the remotest mudhut-and-nomad-tent
corners of the Earth?