The Enhancer
Bluelighter
Statehood
In defense of my idealism,
I have raped innocent women and children,
Pillaged the poor,
Empowered the rich,
I have scorched the earth,
With bombs that I have produced,
And for what,
In defense of my idealism.
In defense of my idealism,
I have slaughtered by the millions,
Slaves, Jews, Ukrainians,
Albanians, Rwandans, Croat and Serb,
Scot, Mick, Brit and many other fellow man,
North and south alike,
Why,
In defense of my idealism.
In defense of my idealism,
I have taken power from god’s hands,
And placed it within my own,
I have harnessed the power of the atom,
Unleashing a war more senseless than any before,
A cold war,
Killing Charlie to prove a point,
My defense,
My idealism is right.
In defense of my idealism,
I have created a classless class,
A shadow that I pass on every street corner in every city,
A forgotten man, woman or child,
That means so little to my wallet,
That I choose to walk by without imparting a dollar,
Or having the common courtesy to wish a good day,
For they contribute nothing to my idealism,
Except that they are not good enough for it,
Why,
I define this idealism.
In defense of my idealism,
I have constructed endless ghettos,
Not just the physical construction of slums,
But an emotional ghetto which transcends the physical one a million times over,
I have used illiteracy and crack with the same force of destruction as I have an M 16,
Albeit the death is slower,
And much more tragic,
For against my own,
So too have I defended my idealism.
In defense of my idealism, I have created markets,
Economies of bananas and Microsoft alike,
Built my market into a global bully,
A leather clad dominatrix,
Crushed other idealisms through the weight of my dollar,
All in the name and defense of my idealism.
A wise man once said, “Democracy is not the best form of government, it is simply the best we have.”
And the question remains,
Why defend what can not defend its own?
The Enhancer
In defense of my idealism,
I have raped innocent women and children,
Pillaged the poor,
Empowered the rich,
I have scorched the earth,
With bombs that I have produced,
And for what,
In defense of my idealism.
In defense of my idealism,
I have slaughtered by the millions,
Slaves, Jews, Ukrainians,
Albanians, Rwandans, Croat and Serb,
Scot, Mick, Brit and many other fellow man,
North and south alike,
Why,
In defense of my idealism.
In defense of my idealism,
I have taken power from god’s hands,
And placed it within my own,
I have harnessed the power of the atom,
Unleashing a war more senseless than any before,
A cold war,
Killing Charlie to prove a point,
My defense,
My idealism is right.
In defense of my idealism,
I have created a classless class,
A shadow that I pass on every street corner in every city,
A forgotten man, woman or child,
That means so little to my wallet,
That I choose to walk by without imparting a dollar,
Or having the common courtesy to wish a good day,
For they contribute nothing to my idealism,
Except that they are not good enough for it,
Why,
I define this idealism.
In defense of my idealism,
I have constructed endless ghettos,
Not just the physical construction of slums,
But an emotional ghetto which transcends the physical one a million times over,
I have used illiteracy and crack with the same force of destruction as I have an M 16,
Albeit the death is slower,
And much more tragic,
For against my own,
So too have I defended my idealism.
In defense of my idealism, I have created markets,
Economies of bananas and Microsoft alike,
Built my market into a global bully,
A leather clad dominatrix,
Crushed other idealisms through the weight of my dollar,
All in the name and defense of my idealism.
A wise man once said, “Democracy is not the best form of government, it is simply the best we have.”
And the question remains,
Why defend what can not defend its own?
The Enhancer
