Poetry - just one more war
by rick davidson
i’ll not die
again.
no
more,
i’ve had
it:
wars, wars,
wars
and more
wars
have cost me too
much.
shit,
what’s
it for?
To win a bit of
land:
a dollar
more
for
what?
to place my name on a
list
that’s too damn
long
in the first
place?
win - ha, die you
mean.
die
dead
for god, mother and country. . .
.
flags of all the nation
states
don’t fly high
enough
to try for, to die for, even to live
for.
and of
soul,
shall i go once more to the
cliff,
jump over the edge
to death
below
to be resurrected
when,
always
when,
you need me for just one more
war?
“hell no, we won’t
go”
youth sang through the
sixties.
won’t
go.
no way. . . . . class my ass. . . .
.
it’s power struck everyone - everyone
except the dead.
yes, hiroshima’s come
and gone
and we haven’t learned a
thing.
not a goddamn
thing.
“just one more
war”
is the
call.
the brave stand still -
silent
as the fearful
set out
to kill us all.
“just one more
war”
is all it will take.
Posted: Sat
- February 1, 2003 at 08:04 PM