1Dec/030
Poem: Unconventional Weapons
A random antiwar poem from 2003 reflecting on the peace movement.
Unconventional Weapons
How do you fight
when your enemy is no-one?
What do you fight
with?
A knife won't do
goes through ideas like butter.
Bullets, useless
even teflon coated armourpiercing hollowpoints.
-Blam blam-
Missed.
Hard buggers to target,
those abstract nouns.
But we'll get 'em,
all, in the end. You'll see.
War, terror
famine, death.
They've got a headstart
six thousand years plus of hatred.
Nukes
and AK-47s
full-spectrum geosynchronous air-space theatre dominance
blunt rocks
Apaches
COMSATINTELNEOLOGISM
and
poison gas.
Us, we've just got
hands, eyes,
faces.
Hardly seems like a fair fight.
Maybe they need
a few more tanks?
