Entry X

Skin taut
over edges of bones fragments
the remnants
Sewn together with a
lace of leather
and spine

skin taut
is still smooth.

smooth enough
to persuade an audience
into a security
that does not exist

frayed ends of twine
spark a blaze of fear
and a willingness
to give up everything
so it can be safe.

fear cannot touch
the bag of bones i am
translucent flesh on brittle framework
pulls itself tgoether (from the inside)
for fear of fearing

terrorist bombs blaze
tearing into the sacks
of flesh and bone
forgotten humans
of a forgone humanity
lives lost so
WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
garner payback, retribution, idiocracy.

terrorists bombs blaze and
burn the pride of an american people
never more content with giving up
fundamental freedoms or
the right to keep one's thoughts
to one's self.

I'm only going to say this once,
and at the end of a long poem nonetheless.

9/11 WAS an inside job. The United States Government lies to its people to justify the removal of our basic rights. Some speculate that the phrase, "Al Quaeda" never existed before 9/11 and the media frenzy to place blame.
If you don't believe me, look at Pearl Harbor, the incident that justified US entry into WWII. In the weeks before Pearl Harbor, FDR took an especially aggressive stance toward Japan, severing trade agreements and the like. When the Japanese navy sent their destroyer fleet to Pearl Harbor, Australian patrols notified the US gov't WEEKS before the Japanese arrived. We had more than ample warning - which was purposely ignored by our leader. We all know that Pearl Harbor not only cost so many lives itself, but also prompted the slaughter of our soldiers during WWII. Obviously, we can't trust our PRESIDENTS to respect the sanctity of human life. Humans are not tools to make money with, you fucking assholes. We're HUMANS, and our lives are PRECIOUS. Get over the war-fever, you conservative fuckheads. You respect the "rights" of an unborn fetus, yet willingly send your own children to kill and be killed.

Our government currently has the right to arrest you, without reason, and hold you indefinitely in a place undisclosed to anyone. They can torture you, since we have openly violated the Geneva Conventions and resort to waterboarding. They have the right to enter your home without warning or warrant, and use the evidence from this unlwaful entry to incriminate you. They have the ability to monitor every word you speak, your driving habits, your internet actions. They have even justified the use of cameras on literally every street corner at traffic lights. Next time you're stopped at a red light, look at the utility poles until you see the camera that will be OBVIOUSLY recording you. Give it a big ol' fuck you for me.
That being said, it should be made known that before 9/11, our government was unable to legally do any of the above (although they probably would have anyway). It is through a strategy of fear and mistrust of our worldly neighbors that our government convinced us to give up our most basic right - the right to privacy.


If you think this isn't a problem, I'd like you to read 1984. And if you don't think that a situation like that could ever be possible...look around you. Try turning off your telescreen. Try going anywhere without being monitored. It won't happen, my friend.

And so ends my diatribe.

Good night and good luck.