COWBOY TERRÖRI$M: Some Thoughts on American Imperialism Amerika is a terrorist stäte It's a selfish, stupid cowboy living a myth that's out-of-däte With its huge silver pistols 'n massive nuclear warheads it tries ta rule dah world 'n expand its sprawling homestead Gawd Bless American Demöcracy as long as it's good for dah GNP as long as it doesn't upset dah bourgeoisie as long as korporate profit is achieved Resistance is useless: yah must adapt 'n öbey B marginalized 'n waylayed or bekum a bum-target 'n in a mass grave $um-howl err öther ya'll be assimilated: yankee ingenuity manifests in monεy wäyzzz Sam: What's dis guy whining about? His poems seem like one mass litany against America. Ted: (nodding) Yeah, the guy wrote better stuff about computers. His anti-American rhetoric izz grating. Tim: Well, it's a good contrast to most yippie-hi-hoo yankee-doodle-dandy crap . . . Terri: In some way or other people have to learn to live with the Beast that America represents. Forget about pipe dreams ah utopia – the real world is never clean. In that sense, it's very human. Kris: At times I think America reflects the best and the worst in human nature: it's a nation of extremes. Extreme wealth coexists with abject poverty. Many precious freedoms coexist with police-state gulags and nearly 1% of the population is in prison. Tim: The Japanese understood their devils well. From their perspective, even though devils are warped and twisted, they still have a touch ah compassion. Nothing is completely polarized. We can learn from that perspective. Sam: (shaking his head while laughing) Man, youz full ah sheet! ================================================================================= from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: A tirade against aggressive American expansionism and gunboat diplomacy. KEYWORDS: American expansionism, gunboat diplomacy, Yankee terrorism, political satire Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 2002 in Nagoya, Japan / Finished: 2015 in Tokyo, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/oneview.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/in.htm TRANSLATIONS DEUTSCH: https://www.tnewfields.info/de/ter.htm ESPAÑOL: https://www.tnewfields.info/es/terr.htm FRANÇAIS: https://www.tnewfields.info/fr/terro.htm NIHONGO: https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/kawabooi.htm