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Open Your Eyes

A.D. Winans

You can’t escape it
Your remote control is wed to it
Local and cable channels feed it to you like
Meat thrown into a tigers cage

News of wars and pending wars reel you in
Like a doomed fish
You become part of it whether
You want to or not

You don’t have to be on the frontlines
To feel the wounds
See the blood taste the carnage

Your parents and grandparents lived it
Willed it to you
The dog feels it every time he wags his tail
The cat hides under the bed but can’t escape it

Walt Whitman walked the battlefields
Bandaged the wounds of the fallen
William Carlos Williams saw it in
The faces of dying patients

they built a cemetery on the lawn
of General Lee’s mansion
General Grant tried to drink the pain away

The disease can’t be defeated
The Pope is powerless
The President embraces it
The First Lady dances with it
The vampire Congress feeds off it

It’s a cancer that eats away at you
Sucks you down like quicksand

God hides in the closet
Takes down notes
Jesus sleeps on a bed of nails

Admirals and Generals run through
The fields harvesting the dead
Congress gangsters rattle their sabers
In the midnight oil of democracy

Ballistic missiles pointed at the stars
The firing squads on alert
Petrified standing like mannequins
In a death field

The businessman’s money tree
Bends with the weight of a nation
In slave chains disguised as freedom
Turn on the TV open your eyes
It’s all there to see

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