November 28, 2004

Dazed

Four days immersed in evil

Reading Michael Ruppert=s book

Crossing the Rubicon^*

Indeed the U.S. has crossed it B

Corruption, drugs, crimes, fraud

Secrets, lies, traps, false testimony

Money running government

Abrogation of the constitution

They=re all there, signs of an empire

Staving off its inevitable crumple

Rotting from its amoral core

Relying on a scarce resource

Of which the end is in sight

Poor United States of America

Desperate to hide its weakness

Behind bravado, arrogance

Ruthlessness, war, torture

Disdain, contempt for all others

Intent at all cost to be the last

To use the last drop of oil

Prepared to kill billions

To be the last to change

Its profligate way of life

9/11 was its first audacious feat

To ward off a defiant implosion

Star wars methods tested

On its very own people B

Only some 3,000 killed

How many more next time?

It is not that oil is scarce

It is that we are too many

Biological weapons are ready

Software will target the victims

This, as I am waking up from

The nightmare of World War II

Trying not to see cars as tanks

Bombs in the sky, people as killers

But my war was child=s play

Compared to the explosion

Of suffering the privileged

Intend to inflict on the rest

During the coming decades

Of Homo petroleus= demise

My friends query me blandly

ADid you enjoy Thanksgiving?@

Then, self-satisfied, volunteer

AWe spent it in Las Vegas@

AI drank tons of wine!@

AThe food was too rich!@

AI ate a little of everything

But it was still way too much!@

AI like the holiday. We have

So much to be thankful for!@

I return home to my mail=s crude

And pushy glossy paper screams

ASpecial Thanksgiving Sale!@

ABest Ever Holiday Deal!@

AShop now for Christmas!@

AYou are the lucky winner B

Call us now, immediately

To retrieve your prize!@

AOpen this envelope

For a gift credit card!@

... A credit card ...

A little bit of oil in my hand.

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^* Ruppert, Michael, Crossing the Rubicon B The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil (New Society, Gabriola Island, B.C., Canada), 2004.