House of Paine

st woodrow rises

"the ginril" dictated 
this to me last evening 

whilst i slept ..... 



 the ghost of butler  may 2 2003 


vigilante nation 


good folks 
i’ll admit it 
 even  i get tired
 of my own voice  
some times 
its so damn inappropriate
for some things 

 its too goatish
too flaring  too choleric 
   too easily distracted 

but then it seems 
 I’ve always  got junk to push 

  so here’s me doing 
       St. woodrow
 as a pace changer

picture his supreme highness
 the pope of  sanctimony 
  rising  up before your president 
 like hamlets father after that 
flat top tango he pulled  yesterday 

“  what say ye
    Mr. PRESIDENT  
 with all the  wideworld   
    watching
 what say ye”
 
“now that  your
 armed boys and girls
have stopped
 the horror
stopped the 25 year long 
 Saddamization 
  of little  iraq ”
 

  (   ya ya I agree this already 
has you eyeing the exits 
we all know and  agree 
 Parson  Wilson
 is  the prime  pulpit dancing
 master pompitude  dingo
 of all time 
but sanctimony has its moments 
please I beg you hear him out.)


“ do you  MR.  Bush 
openly  and proudly proclaim your nation
      the globe’s  vigilante king
  the chest drubbing   champion 
 of freedom    and  manly decency  
  
are you no longer the prep school cheer captain 
but rather  are you now a flying  warrior   titan  
unchained 
free 
 at long last  free 
 of the  squeamish
                    shackles of  VIETNAM
 
 shackles forged by the little boomer   smiths 
  those self loving   worshipers  of nicety and bad faith 

     are you proclaiming
   a new order on earth

the reign of
  “wrath and righteousness “

    is this  your  CowYankee tonic
 for a conflicted
and terror threatened
world 
 
  a world  where

EUROPE’S  ancient
 white  civilizations

  have traveled so far 
beyond the call
  of  the wild

  they no longer can 
or
even seem
 to care enough
to rally
 to their own  cause

the cause of liberty 

tell me Mr. president   
what is now  your mandate 

do you claim 
for yourself 
 the eternal right
 of Divine   revelation

have you too
as I have  
  young George
 been to the mountain top 

  are you  too 
as I was 
called to  a higher calling
 
  called to a greater mission 

  are  you too
as I was 
 chosen 
to  reveal
 to a chosen nation 
a  god mandated  mission  

 what did 
the burning bush command ?
 

“  go out into
the world oh Georgie
and lead  my nation 
 in the name 
of the god of liberty 

  go out  and seek  monsters 
 seek them 
and  slay them
slay them all 
every last one ” 

or are you no Moses
as alas  i wasn’t 

no Moses 
 in snake boots 

no Moses 
in blue jeans 

 are you  just 
 flexing
in willful  ignorance 
the   brawn of a mighty nation   

exhaulting
 in your office 

exhaulting
  in unaccustomed mightiness   

 tell me
 little little man 

are you  saying
something like this ...

  “friends and enemies 
of America
 hark onto me

 from this time forth 
 and for ever more
whenever
 America’s
  sacred   repose 
is disturbed  

whenever
 her sweetest 
of mothers milk 
  is so much as  
 threatened

whether it comes 
  from  across
our  borders
 or from over seas

 when ever I see danger
 to our homeland
coming  from  
anyone else’s
 homeland
     
  I shall  follow
 my own god given lights
and do whats
 called for
 
   and I  promise you this 

 I’ll do it
every time
  
 yes everytime

   thats how it will be

  I’ll
   roundup my  posse

  and as the
stevedores say in frisco
 ‘  get it on’

  and if need be
 keep getting it on 
till the threat
whatever it is 
has become
one of   histories 
  tall tales  
  
 and if perchance
 any or all of  you 
 pussy footing 
Eurofied  international
 ice cream vendors 
 get the heavy sweats
 over it
 well you can just
 fry yourself in banana  oil
 and be damned”

(whoops sounds)
( too much  like butt speak here)
( so what i’m lettin’ it stand )




  well sir if this is so 
if this is your chosen course 

then 
let me warn you 
 
  once a nation
 no matter how powerful
  no matter how unstoppable 
 turns vigilante
  
once a nation grips itself
 with a self righteous  wrath  
   whether 
  it casts itself 
as 
   an ever spotless crusader
   or
 more grimly
 as 
 a  self assured global  thug

  surely   
surely 
either way 
that self  same nation 

will end its days 

with a stake
 through its heart

yes a stake through its heart

i implore you to believe
 what history teaches us all

 once set on its own
unilateral  course

 even the most powerful of  nations

  even the most nobly born of nations

 even the most splendidly generous of nations

 will become 
  a monster
 to the world at large

 a despised monster

      feared
 betrayed 
   plotted against
 and 
no matter
 its strength 
and will to victory

finally
 a nation destroyed

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