My Damned Government

Added 23 June 2003

Leutenant Michaels has lupis.
Major Larkin has ALS.
The Iraqi people are exposed to nuclear waste.

The reason they all suffer is clear . . .
my damned government.
It goes much further than Iraq,
travels much wider.

Radiation experimentation on unsuspecting citizens.
Covert wars.
Imprisonment without due process.
Assassinations.
Down to simply turning a blind eye to some atrocity.

At these times . . .
then it is less my government
and more my SHAME.
That is when Levin's words come to me
and I speak
and speak
and seek
to make it right.

Written 27, 28 March 2003, 8 April 2003