17.viii.21
593
2.228
all over in Kabul
more sinned against than
their country
and they never gave up
traditionally far, so
isolated
still trading through
as Indo-European as an
assault rifle
from wildernesses of
the narrow heart
from all this brooding
while they come
shining with the dusty
truth
the emirate recommences
ask: has a nation ever
been built from the outside?
you might think Bosnia
or Japan after the war
there never was an
after-war here
they say it’s not
Saigon
but just as bad an idea
can you count the cost?
ninety percent of the
world’s smack comes from this place
(though the Taliban
almost wiped it out once)
before that there was hash
with the royal seal
chill space
between empires
now you won’t get a
beer
this is the grief of
it is what it is
I call this world an
intervention against the ideal
who hasn’t tried a hand
here?
it has not been
understood
crime after crime
remember that fuse lit
with the towers
clever Osama
with all that paradise
hate
the keys left in the
ignition
the guns left on the
rack
images of another
religion
are dust to dust again
the locals weren’t much
for beer anyway
but the girls got used
to going to school
doing sport, voting
doing human
out of the maze of
mountains
crusades
smart martyrdom
no more deluded in
anger than ours
say surrender
for a creed
300 million dollars a
day for twenty years
that’s just what the
USA paid
2.261 trillion – that’s
what the USA paid
(they lost more
contractors than soldiers)
and in total
a quarter of a million
deaths directly caused by the war
the indirect cost in
lives is greater
and
how many more zealots
now?
o how much safer is our
world?
so many bloody arrogant
mistakes
of course the victims
are as you see
hate like a stain
griefs never soak up
one more bullshit
sacred war
say no one died in vain
like flies
clinging to the wheel
of the aircraft took off
history’s so fast –
we must be there again
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