Trillions upon trillions burned on a funeral pyre, as
The Antichrist army sets fire to the sands of human
Memory; depleted uranium and white phosphorus
Dropped on soil, beast, and air – and dropped again;
Hellfire missiles launched from the desecrated firmament –
The cowardly assassins invisible, hiding behind a blue-
Drenched canopy; habeas corpus tossed onto a dumpster
Like an overused rag, while deans of law schools dine
At expensive restaurants and exchange notes on the
Latest New York Times crossword puzzle; Iraq, Libya,
Yemen and Afghanistan obliterated – each a graveyard
On which vultures gorge on human offal; Ukraine and
Yugoslavia balkanized, whereon brother slew brother
In blind murderous rage; the Martyr delivered over to the
Cult of psychiatry, as college students rant and rave about
Race and gender; American high school graduates that
Walk through countless metal detectors, yet never heard
Of Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway; Obamacare, a new
Truncheon with which to bankrupt and bludgeon; the pharma-
Ceutical companies – a gang of drug dealers and monstrous
Sociopaths; the downtrodden enslaved once more onto the
Chain gang; the hallowed citadel razed, its grand spires now
Fallen, death throes drowning in the unconsecrated screen,
A sea of bones stretching beyond the fading of the interrealm,
Their whiteness chilling to every spine of weary man – each
Bone a dead star – each star a dream crushed beneath a ruthless
Demonic power; thereon marched the vanquished unto the
Setting sun, as the demons beckon, sweet night come calling