The Colonel “A government is a criminal enterprise.” – Elster, in Don DeLillo’s “Point Omega,” 33.
King me! Computer checkers ring the tribes In diplomatic double-talk that mounts All those I cannot fool and hands out bribes Of virgin twelve-year-olds and bank accounts.
These medals give my war crimes special station, So when I smile, I seal my judges’ doom, Then ride insurgency’s unbridled nation To succor terror babies from the womb.
Once, corporations were the State and hired Mercenaries who’d enforce their scams, Dissolving borders with machetes wired, And money transferred Into holograms.
Now, ruthless power writhes this judas tree With criminal kisses to sell. King me!
The Colonel
ReplyDelete“A government is a criminal enterprise.” – Elster, in Don DeLillo’s “Point Omega,” 33.
King me! Computer checkers ring the tribes
In diplomatic double-talk that mounts
All those I cannot fool and hands out bribes
Of virgin twelve-year-olds and bank accounts.
These medals give my war crimes special station,
So when I smile, I seal my judges’ doom,
Then ride insurgency’s unbridled nation
To succor terror babies from the womb.
Once, corporations were the State and hired
Mercenaries who’d enforce their scams,
Dissolving borders with machetes wired,
And money transferred Into holograms.
Now, ruthless power writhes this judas tree
With criminal kisses to sell. King me!
[Disposable Sonnet August 16, 2010]
Dr. Mike