Personal inertia is a self-stopping
Mechanism everybody wants self-
Starters but nobody wants guys
Who shoot from the hip or go off
Half cocked note the gun analogues
To be assertive but not aggressive
Where to draw the line for there are
So many toes to stub ten of your
Own and another ten for everyone
Out there is almost an argument
Against placing your foot in any
Door rocking any boat speaking
When everyone is accustomed to
Silence so what do you do when
The train we’re all on is headed
Across a valley where the bridge
Is no more do you single-handedly
Grab for the air brake or quickly
Call a committee to discuss last
Wishes pass paper around to pin
To the bodies that will inevitably
Die in the crash except there is
No such air brake you’ve been
Screaming like Cassandra for years
Now since disaster hasn’t come
You’re written off as a kook just
Another lost soul in a sandwich
Board warning of the coming end
While the parties proceed but
You are no longer invited I’m
Most afraid of those who trust in
God those congressmen who cite
The bible and say rainbows are
Promises we will never again
Be destroyed I’d first ask to see
Their grade in biblical exegesis
Then audit their recent sales
Of lowlands these are the kooks of
Which we should beware who assure
We’ve paid for the most powerful
Military ever who can obtain whatever
We want by buying more bombs
More bullets blasting opponents
Out of our way count our successes
How can we lose what with all our
Secret development labs cracking
Nature open in every way to yield
New methods of killing using them
In proxy wars as if we were a
Worldwide military McDonald’s
Market testing degraded
Uranium in Fallujah night
Vision googles in Somalia
Plastic grenades in Afghanistan
Once this huge machine is grinding
It will take a little more than sand
In the gears to stop it so many
Depend on the spending that keeps
It all going major universities would
Fail whole industries halt so
Many thrown into breadlines
Because you in your so-called
Prophetic vision refuse your role
In the imperialist mission
c. J.S.Manista, 2015
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