get your guns: (& mothers)

 

 

get your guns

little children vandals
have shot toy arrows
through our windows
(& open doors)

provoked by an order
(remotely given)
to give out our mothers
telephone numbers
& christian zealots

the paper read:
the bosom of christian america
was roasted alive
in a fiery crash
(along with its deeper soul)

equally reluctant
to take on the issues
the ignored groups
were seized in their locker rooms
(& torn to pieces)
in this war of attrition

in the background could be heard
automatic gun fire
it was absolutely imperative
even though it created
a cruel odyssey
(& front line)

what are you
if you cannot portray
the role
of a suspected terrorist
against the asymmetrical struggle
inconvenient to the majority

imperial power was the only truth
the legions knew
as they were getting their guns
ready for a psychotic demonstration
of that power

messages imprinted
(with coded references)
it was a secret
how they established the

movements
of spiritual multiplication
zealots confined to the streets
the figures are probably higher
(even though denied)

reluctant to take on the issue
we can only hope
they go away one day
unprovoked and confined
to their own
(closet space)

subverting without impunity
there is truth
in imperial power

Mark David Jordan, 2011