American Death
too many people packed into too tight a space on
the boat a pressure cooker population bomb of Pilgrim
extremist Christian immigrants on December 21 1620 in
Plymouth the locals welcomed the foreigners including
my ancestor Mayflower Compact signer Thomas Rogers along
with the half of them who did not survive the winter but
the seed of his son Joseph grew as the family tree under
whose shadow the natives died an American death
Iraq Afghanistan Palestine Libya Yemen
Sharon Arafat Khomeni Saddam Bin Laden
Reagan Bush I Clinton Bush II Obama
Munich Lockerbie Beirut New York Boston
fight the enemy until the last dying breath
until the world knows the way of American death
In seventeen hundred seventy five the embattled farmers stood
against the oppression of the British crown and today the
statue of the Minuteman stands with rifle on Lexington Green.
The 3rd Monday of April is declared Patriots Day in their honor
and for many other good causes runners from around the world
take to the streets 26 miles from Hopkinton to Copley Square.
The finish line on Boylston Street between Dartmouth and Exeter
is close to 209 Columbus Ave. where my ancestor James Upham
in 1892 conceived of The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
In the year 2013 over 26,000 started out from west to east
up and down the Massachusetts hills toward their destination
next to the Central Boston Public Library, established 1848.
The pressure cooker bombs heard round the world exploded
at 2:49 pm injuring two hundred sixty four and killing three
including eight year old Martin William Richard of Dorchester.
Wide-eyed Martin had made a sign a year before in school
with the words “No more hurting people. Peace” written on it
above a peace sign a tragic prelude to this American death.
Immigrant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
huddled hopelessly in the hull of a dark boat in Watertown
under the tarp perhaps imagining the Charles would flood
miraculously with the tears of the families of the martyrs
to swell up and float away his boat from the back yard so
unseen he’d drift along the currents of his dreams as
white robed mullahs guiding his passage with prayers
guard him against the swarms of stinging metal drones and
all pain forgiven his brother Tamerlan is there to greet him
at the jeweled shores of long-awaited Paradise but
it’s only sticky blood puddling under the gunwhales
of this little Mayflower of April which is going nowhere
in a spatter of bullets seeking a true American death
why are they shooting I have no weapons left
I have no voice left I have no plans
there is only a knife waiting for me
no longer the scimitar of revenge
just a surgeon cleaning me up
so I’ll look good for another American death
Left field theories bounce off The Wall, no home runs.
“Using this home-made incident the United States
could temporarily switch its alliance with and
the portrayal of factions in Caucasus-USA-created
Islamic Terror Cells in Caucasus and Central Asia
in the Great Game Scheme against Russia.
Overnight, with the designed-terrorist attack,
the US made the factions switch from Freedom Fighting Rebels
to Hottest Terrorist Cells associated with al-Qaeda.
The Russians would stand back on Syria, and remove themselves
as the obstacle in US intended invasion of Syria.
In return, the United States and EU, would support Russia
in a new battle against the factions in Caucasus.
Meaning: Russia’s soon-to-come ‘house cleaning’
domestic battles would not be ostracized by
the international community as ‘Human Rights Violations,’
but supported as ‘Russia taking positive steps
in counterterrorism efforts to wipe out radical
Islamic Terrorists.’” – Sibel Edmonds, boilingfrogsblog.com
Syrian death Chechen death Islamic death American death
Pilgrim, come home.
Your journey
has only brought you to
an American death.
