Missiles shooting
north south east west —
enemies everywhere,
the Homeland colonized by its own
now being ravaged by all
even its former subservients —
the destroyer noses for the bottom.
How brief the reign of empires –
on the daily map schoolchildren watch
as Germany’s black runs over
Europe’s many borders,
as Japan assaults Asia
the brave Chinese.
Now The United States
its rich and poor slaughtered equally
its bases all over the world lost
its navy loose on the seas
ordered to take revenge,
the most terrible ever.