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By Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) | Axis of Logic
Axis of Logic
Saturday, Jun 29, 2019

“During each air mission, aircraft puts hundreds of tons of CO2 in the air, not to mention the support activities of naval and ground based assets for these air missions.”[1]
 
“Even the Pentagon’s new billion-dollar Space Force and impact on the environment was met with silence. Indeed, the dangers of sending rockets in the atmosphere and outer space to build and arm manned space stations with missiles poses an environmental catastrophe which pales in comparison to a thousand nuclear bombs exploding.”[2]

 
It’s a hard reign a-gonna already been falling
kool-aid cult of sky-gods dropped WW II bombs,
Air Force bombardier Howard Zinn
did ’em with napalm on
Germany, France, Czechoslovakia, Hungary
UNTIL
“he realized the dehumanization of war, the numbness
of being in the air and far-removed from the victims
devastated by those bombs”[3]
then changed his tune
’cause all we ever have redemption songs,
Oh! say can you see something
say something too many bombs bursting in air.
 
Too-fast-forward to upping the drone bomb droppings
with computer-programmed point-and-click
dinosaur droppings for so-called god’s country
on other people’s god’s countries (and weddings)
with Orwell’s future of a boot stamping on a human face,
on a bee’s face, on a giraffe’s face, on a lake’s face
in the name of The Promised Land Incorporated,
reigning down crimes against
atmosphere,
air,
the oxygen everybody breathes . . .
 
Too-fast-forward to a microcosm
of the macrocosm, the police choking the air out of
Eric Garner who repeated eleven times
while pinned facedown on the sidewalk
"I can't breathe" [4] . . .
 
Too-fast-forward to
Nobel Peace Prizer Prez droppings
over 20,000...
sans Zinn’s 180°...
the Donald duck and cover carrying on
the deformed arm and a legacy.
 
Too-fast-forward to new report
“U.S. military, world’s single largest producer of Greenhouse Gases”[5]
and it’s a hard reign a-Pentagonna fall
if we don’t
slow
down
and
connect the enviro & military-industrial it’s not so -complex dots,
two-for-one smell the roses special—
STOP the attacks on Mother Earth
reigned down from the top-heavy ladder
pie-chart in the superior sky of success.
 
instead
Rewind . . . Remember
the Rain-Spirits
cleansing the air . . .
nurturing the soil . . .
growing the foods
that even the kool-aid-cult of sky-gods
has to eat in order to stay alive.
 
 
NOTES:
1. “U.S. military, world’s single largest producer of GHG, says study
 
2. “Who Will Stop the Pentagon’s Conspiracy of Silence Killing Our Planet and Us?
 
3. “Howard Zinn, ‘Just and Unjust Wars’
 
4. “Death of Eric Garner
 
5. Ibid [1].
 

Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet at Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer and small press publisher, he travels a holistic mystic pathway staying in touch with Turtle Island. See his new book of nonfiction with a poetic touch, “photo albums of the heart-mind”.



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