You'd think we agree on some evils
By now at least rape of boys by priests
By Afghan warlords whom our dollars
Have for years been propping up
How gross does the offense have to be
Before we can say this is too far we
Don't give a fig it's been your custom
For umpteen centuries father get your
Hands off that kid what about all those
Saudi women accused of adultery
Where the guy gets off but the father
Throws the first stone at his daughter
A matter of family honor the ritual
Rape of young women brides in the
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ
Of the Latter Day Saints by Warren Jeffs
His middle-aged toadies who get
Scraps from the master's table
Scientists all very good men many
Jews secular learned reasonable men
Devoted years to develop a weapon
Otherwise straight from the bowels
Of hell that couldn't be morally used
They were thinking deterrent as they
To a man confessed to hold it against
Hitler lest he threaten them with it in turn
What blessed befuddled to think they
Could produce such a thing for the
Ordinary mortals who pass for leaders
And they not use it they not terrify
All mankind for decades claiming
Spotless good intentions their ears
Now so like Torquemada's convicted
Unable to hear screams of children
Old men sick women dead of
Their earlier bombing diplomats who
Must they claim righteously make
Deals with the devil to advance
Humanity's cause I'm just as certain
Pol Pot thought giving the order
To drive a truck over the skulls
Of his opponents doing what
He must to provide for peace
Our CIA poured water into nostrils
Mouths of their captives for the
Good of all the good of virgins
Back home perhaps altar boys
Widely read learned experienced
People our neighbors who all know
In their hearts what is moral what
They would not want others to do
To them but somehow in twisted
Reasoning they must now
Do to others
c. J.S.Manista, 2015
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