Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Socialist Sonnet No. 104

Hands That Make the Arms

 

Benighted hands employed through industry

To manufacture such grim munitions

That make possible bellicose missions,

Whereby martialled workers deliberately

Seek to slaughter martialled workers they see

As holding enemy positions.

Such tragic results of these attritions

Doing naught to increase their liberty.

Most surely those hands are able to grasp

That the ever mounting loses of war

Mean mounting profits continue to soar

For those few with industry in their clasp.

Rather than following, fulfilling orders,

Hands can chose to reach out across borders.

 

D. A.

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