Paid Dividends

Collects money from
lost lives.
Says that military aid is well-justified,
and the word sure as hell looks nice.
What happened in 1958, 1965
or at the Fulbright Committee hearings
when the truth rang like a bell
and white knuckles clutched onto
statements hiding Indonesian coups.
Our shadow attempts to overthrow a foreign leader
in a land far away,
displacing revolutionaries like us
from equality
and a better way of life.
Subversion and infiltration
and the dark progress
of supply and demand.
Supplying arms,
opening the way for influence.
Flying missiles for allies,
supplying war goods,
and arming enemy officers
all for the sake of control
and wanting to keep the door open
at the expense of human lives.
Stating that the policy
is neutrality
in press conferences where speeches are made
on the proper angle to take
where detachment
is appreciated
by big brother ordering us
not to take sides
where it is none of our business.
They say in retrospect it was well-justified
for our convenience,
for our happiness,
and in a service to the peace.
This was not the first time
or the last,
not even horrifically close.
1973 Chile
Our installed format
of a dictator
seizing power by killing
his own people.
A very long list goes on
to reveal thrown open doors
for western corporations
reaping vast profits from
slave labor in far away lands.
Commi chasing union busting
show of force,
and the millions of victims
who stand on islands
filled with precious resources
and low wages.
From the installation of the Shah of Iran
to the massacre of
thousands in Salvador and Guatemala,
imperialist foreign policy
and a darth in-vader
approach.
Kissinger kissed blood-stained lips
and shouting from very high places
about democracy.
How do we stop the articulation
of bloody-handed policies and
the prostitution of society through
backing of corporate families?
Reject all you know
about imperialist wars.
The endless waves that pulsed
from the Cuban Revolution
and from every revolt done
by oppressed workers
still marches goes on.
The installing and protecting
of leaders who kill, torture, and mass detain,
to protect copper colored interests
is shockingly
business as usual.