Amerika awakens to History

nap time is over
no more long vacations
no more quiet idles at the ranch

history calls

so unreal like a made-for-TV movie
toy plane
cg fireball
slow tower collapse
paper everywhere
streets covered w/women's high heel shoes
the unimaginable dead
cop riding the wave down 86 stories to live
swarthy A-Rabs torturing flight attendants w/razors
suicide pilots trained in Florida
brave passengers stopping one plane
cell phones, cell phones
& the title?
"Attack on America!"
I like the alliteration

history hasn't ended
I feel like when Kennedy was shot
a vast change before us

sea change

squawking heads on TV
some guy seems to be having a Vietnam flashback
Pat Robertson & Jerry Falwell
preaching their smarmy brand
of hate
then Ollie North
Hey, ask him about bin Laden
how he used to sell him guns

history
the analysis deepens

bin Laden once bought planes here in Tucson
back when he was a "freedom fighter"
murdered a moderate Moslem educator
our enemy the spoiled sons of the Saudi rich
the Saudi who first poisoned Islam w/anti-Jewish tracts
"Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
King Farouk got these
from his 'ol buddy Himmler
spoiled sons, what a few million can't buy
while our own spoiled son
our Little King
his crown some three sizes too big
so disengaged
I expect him to start sucking his thumb
hide in a closet

wake up
lash out
trade freedom for "security"
our civilization so fragile
toss a few missiles
snarl
chew off
our own leg