Call of Duty
Christina Pacosz
It's a hundred year or more war
this war to end all wars
a just war
a war of attrition
funded by a war chest
a war tax
A war monger
feeds the flames where
the soldiers of this war
warm themselves
on some distant front
This war is justified
a war for the hearts
and minds a war mentality
The most dangerous planes of this war
are unmanned and someone in Nevada or North Dakota
chewing a cold McDonald's cheeseburger
is setting the parameters of the bomb location
and sending drones to drop their pay load
when what everyone needs is a payday
meaningful work not for the war machine
the war effort to buy war bonds
or march to war
The cadence of drums
at the military funerals where the war widows
and now with modernity
and the semblance of equality
widowers are handed the folded
flag in this time of war The war wounded
and war suicides whose families will not receive a letter of condolence from
the White House
soldiers civilians
beggar man thief
The war council
the war secretary
the secret war
a warring heart
Christina Pacosz - Christina Pacosz has been writing and publishing prose and poetry for nearly half a century and has several books of poetry. Born and raised in Detroit, she has lived on both U.S. coasts, New York City, Alaska and southern Appalachia. For the past ten years she has been teaching urban Kansas City youth both sides of the state line; she and her husband of twenty years call Kansas City home.
Web: pacosz.blogspot.com/
