Only Some Dead are Worth Honoring

It's Memorial Day weekend. Here, have a hot dog. Tomorrow,
We'll decorate graves of the people now known as "warriors,"
The ones who expired in various wars. Throw out our own who
Were killed by our own, and the total amounts to over a million.
That seems like a lot, but tens of millions of natives were slaughtered
By our doughty warriors, and how many millions of others have our
Forces murdered in Europe and Asia? Who knows? No one bothered
To count, and, if you say these victims should also be mourned,
I'll take your hot dog away.





Poetry by Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
Read 57 times
Written on 2025-05-24 at 23:22

dott Save as a bookmark (requires login)
dott Write a comment (requires login)
dott Send as email (requires login)
dott Print text