today, all our leaders stand over empty boxes; issue empty thanks amid empty gunshots —

With only these ways, these cliches, we get only this world. These are the only ways we have; this is the result …

The only americans that fucked me over, was Draft Board 55 … and off to learn to kill, with a picture of Buddhist monk who had immolated himself, stored in the Gideon Bible given me by my fellow Americans …

2 years to live em… 20 years to forget em … thanks for the memorials — but fuck the wars…

Next time do your own damned killing…

If you want war; if you need some killing done; if you’re going to avenge
every man woman and child’s death, by killing every man woman and child, then be courageous enough, honest enough, to send every man woman and child to war —

to kill em all, you must send us all. Next time, Dear Presidents, do your own damned killing; we will write our own memorial speeches.