Potsdam, Yalta, Tokyo and Berlin
South Korea and Mao and for the other guys somehow
this is important
without the atomic bomb but with the Marshall Plan
and the German wall
before the fall
Seoul overrun by Kim with a quick plan for victory to Pusan
foiled
& the Great March forward somehow spoiled
by stiff US resistance and blood and guts and honor
and then Truman, McArthur and the Yalu
long after Nagasaki but who really knew
what Eisenhower was about to reveal?
yes, the military industrial complex was designed to steal
what even the CIA didn't understand
or the KGB as they used to say
back in the Cold War day
alongside Fidel Castro (but he's now dead, too) as is the Shah
and Ayatollah Khomeini,
who didn't understand containment so said let the revolution begin
with Iran
and Venezuela and Hezbollah
the oil flows spelled mister moolah in a brave new world
with Huxley golf courses in the sky and
the fervent Taliban who hate women,
who want control more than sex
Man as the new T-Rex!
not the woman in flames or whatever else remains
beyond Marines in central Baghdad or the Chinese in Senegal
they're unlucky enough to want it all:
prayer flags flutter in a Himalayan wind.
the soul of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, without a bed
in his native-born country said,
Peace on Earth (at the very least)
save us from this killing beast!
and now the orange monkey and Putin,
rip roaring with their guns out shooting
Greenland overtaken and Ukraine
Taiwan a chip in the poker game
robots working the factory floor
Orwell's vision of a constant war
has overcome the hopes for lasting Peace:
save us from this killing beast!
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