June 12, 2004

12/7 vs 9/11



    it was 12/7

    pearl harbor 

    that started 
   the great american
   build out 
   we are 
   now
   in the process
   of burying 

   soul by soul

   ====================





   the Ronald

   like 
   too many other
   soon
    to be departeds

   would 
   have remained 
   a  moral smudge 
   without
    the titanic
   national response
    to pearl harbor


   problem iz

   the morality
    of pearl harbor

   long ago 

   became 

   the immorality

   that made 9/11 
   a sure bet

   --------------------------------
    renewal?

   nope


   there is no 
   9/11
   build out


   no moral renewal 

   no broad
    lifting 
   shared purpose

   nope

   we smudges

   we 
   dirth devil
   and 
   boomer
    and
    xer smudges 

   we 
   three  generations 
   of moral smudges
    
   soon
   enough
     
   not  
   a single
    sharp
    moral edge
   will be 
   left 
    alive 


   to give
   uz
   a faith-filled 
   ( if now 
   totally 
    bum )
          steer
   ------------------------

   soon 

   we'll 
   have 
   only 
     our own

   shapeless

   tropistic  

   ways 

   then what
   the hell 
   will we pull 

   on a wondering world ?
Posted by pinky at June 12, 2004 04:16 AM
Funny: WWII is the least typical of our wars -- we had actually been attacked, for one thing, and we were fighting enemies who actually had a chance against us, and we were part of an alliance that was an actual alliance instead of a thinly- veiled following of client states. But in spite of being an utterly sui-generis war for us, WWII is the war to which all other wars have to be referred. Every enemy is Hitler, every possibility of negotiation is Munich.

Posted by: gracchus at July 29, 2004 04:18 AM

" in the saxon head moral munich's abound where none exist " DeGaulle

Posted by: meat me at July 29, 2004 04:19 AM

but mr gracchus what of the civil war ? to quote general butler "now there was a scrap"

Posted by: pink hisself at July 29, 2004 04:19 AM

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