The grass where we sat
Amidst the trees
Mist and dew
Left
From the whispering
Breeze.
Swollen feet
Flaming hands
Pockets bulging
Stolen meat
Rotten flesh
From bleeding lands.
What I felt
What I saw
When I knelt
Humbled with awe
At spoken Liberty
National pride
At damming the wave
Of the great yellow tide.1
Surging in Syria
Stemming the flood
Dousing both rag-heads
And slant-eyes with blood.
Fill boy, those sand bags
Pile them on high
Right next to your scaffold
And they shall know why
The viewers of TV
and Internet waive
With joy at their leaders’
Pronouncements so vague
With breath well bated
Attentive and mean
Choked once more
by those leaders so sly,2
Theirs but to do,
to believe and to die
Wittingly ruled by
these bearers of plague
lynching as justice
wrought at the Hague
With manner elated
attentive and mean
blinded by ordnance
filling their screens
Once gloated, now floated
bloated yet lean.
- Like the Philippines after the war against Spain, the US invaded Korea after the Japanese surrender in 1945 and saved it for US capital, crushing its domestic independence movement in the South with methods that would later form the core of the infamous Phoenix Program. Some 70 years ago (1947) the unstated policy of the US regime, articulated; e.g., by agents of its ruling class like Dean Acheson, established that Korea would be subordinated to continued Japanese/ US rule. This meant that there would be no return to the independence the Korean nation had enjoyed for 1000 years…