Making a Choice in the Choice of the Choiceless Voiceless
by John ShumakerI had to make a choice
I had no Choice
what CHOICE was I to make
what Choice was I SUPPOSED to make
I was eighteen years old
Vietnam War was in
FULL
SPECTOR
'Full Spectrum Dominance' was to be Pentagon Pig's Calling Card
some thirty five years into the future
I was in Full Bloom
as a Young Man
in May
They wanted to send me off to war
I was 1-A
Prime red blooded Blue Boy meat for the War Cadaver
no College Deferment
no College Loans
I was too poor to go to College
No PROTECTION
NO WAY OUT
Go to War
or go to PRISON
what a deal
cards were stacked
topsy turvy
in this STACKED Deck
my crime
was that I was POOR
In this stacked deck
there was NO Choice
In this stacked deck
there was NO Voice
for the Voiceless
where were all the elders
the Authority Figures
My Protectors
Teachers,
Priests
GrandParents
Aunts
Uncles
Parents
Neighbors
to SPEAK UP
for Me
All Mysteriously
SILENT
All DISAPPEARED
All AWOL
Absent Without Leave
of Their DUTY
To Watch Over
To Nurture
To PROTECT
INSTANT MASS AMNESIA
Generation WIDE!
In a Cultural Trance walking Posthumously
in Black Catatonic Dance
in their acausal causa SUI project
from the catacombs
an absurd cannibalizing their own kind
their own KIN
They Capitulated Their Duty
in Screaming catachresis
and Catapulted their castrated Progeny
as Casualties
from Catafalques
as Castoffs
Into Catastrophe
Into Immoral UNJUST War
Into Genocide
All Absent
All GONE
KAPUT!!!
To the Moon
All CAPITULATED
All BOWED DOWN
All PROSTRATE
All OBEISANT
All SURRENDERED
All GENUFLECTED
to the War Machine
To EMPIRE
To Babylon
All FALL DOWN!!
What CHOICE
to make of this CHOICELESS
for the Poor
the Voiceless
the Vulnerable
the UnProtected
THE YOUTH
The TRUTH
Neither a fair nor level Playing Field
A War on the Poor
a War on the Working Class
a War on the Youth
A War On The TRUTH
Any Choice
in this Stacked Deck
was NO Choice
for the VOICELESS
No One Knew
or even HEARD of Draft Counseling
No One KNEW
this TRUTH
No one KNEW
of Conscientious OBJECTION
No One KNEW
This TRUTH
It was Kept CAREFULLY HIDDEN
from any HS Guidance Counseling
from any High School EDUCATION
These were and ARE
Teacher's CRIMES
Crimes of OMISSION
Crimes of SILENCE
Crimes of Cooperation
COMPLICITY of Silence
with the War Machine
Nuremberg Principles speak about that HEINOUS Crime
NO ONE
Not ONE
of ANY
of these 'TEACHERS'
TAUGHT
THIS
This was POVERTY of THOUGHT
Driven
HOME
to the
MILLIONS
and because of this Moral Compass CORRUPTION
American Psyche
BeCAME
POVERTY
and STILL IS
To
THIS
VERY
DAY
This was My 'Mother's Day'
a REAL Mother of a Day
One I would Never Wish
to Visit Upon My Mother
or My Brother
or ANY Living Other
where the SELECTIVE Service
( Read: If you're poor you become CONSCRIPTED
into a military WHORE)
Says 'Happy Birthday you're Eighteen”
You got cake ALL OVER your face
I WANT YOU
BOY
and I WANT YOU
NOW!!!
And there AINT NO HOW
You're gonna get Outta
THIS FIX
Jack
That's a Fuckin FACT!
Welcome to the
War Machine
this was
Making a Choice in the Choice of the Choiceless Voiceless
Saying
“Hey BOY You'll Do”
only
for
the “CHOSEN”
Few
AHO!
Midnight Drama in broad daylight
in Young Manhood
Dharma
John Shumaker
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