Israel's got nothing

on the United States of America.

What we did to Japan,

Israel duplicated in Gaza.

On a smaller scale, of course,

but the weapons the Israelis employed

had the same inhuman effect

right down to the WMDs and the poisons.

We gave the Israelis the DIMEs,

white phosphorus and GBU-39s

which deliver the same shocking injuries

as the 15 killoton atomic bomb

the Enola Gay dropped on Hiroshima.

White phosphorus barbeques human bodies

to charcoal briquettes,

making victims in Gaza

look like all that was left

on August sixth and ninth of 1945.

The pressure waves from DIMEs and GBU-39s

slice off limbs and heads as efficiently, surgically

as the nuclear knives we used to carve up Nagasaki.

Fat Man and Little Boy incinerated 210,000 people,

eighty-five percent of them civilians,

who were later joined by 160,000 more

who we hadn't vaporized immediately.

Seven million Israelis

murdered 1400 plus Palestinians

out of 1.5 million living in Gaza.

132 point five million Americans

executed 370,000 of Japan's 72 million

living in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Japan was ready to surrender,

but the U.S. had to teach those Russkies a lesson -

that the evilest son-of-a-bitch in the world

is the United States of America.

And we used the Japanese people to teach it to them.

The world must never forget and it must never forgive us.

We need to be carefully watched.

We've slaughtered over a million in Iraq and Afghanistan,

where we've outdone ourselves, if not in sheer numbers,

in hypocritical cowardice and stunning, brute barbarism.

We stay far away and safe, pushing video game buttons

to rain hell from unmanned drones and incinerate innocent people.

How courageous do such cruel, callous killers, have to be

and how is this the delivery of freedom and democracy?

We did this.  We're hideous

and Earth has a plan to stop us

before we're stupid enough to do it again,

when either the Israelis, Little Boy,

or the U.S.A., Fat Man,

or the combination decide

to put a nuclear hit on Iran.

Earth is terminally pissed off

with our genocidal character traits.

She's mixing a toxic cocktail.

They call it Frozen Clathrates.

She's had it up to here

with our juvenile pissing contests,

and our impressing ourselves

with oppression and conquest.

Our "civilization", hubris

and touting pollution as progress

has made the Earth sick - literally.

And as George Carlin once said

she's just going to shake us off

like a particularly bad case of fleas.

She's going to send us back,

perhaps, to the Archeozoic Era

when she was quite a lot hotter

and loaded with carbon

and we were just pond scum

on the surface of the water.

And that ought to bring an end to

our rape, plunder, hubris and slaughter.

By 2007 there were enough nuclear weapons on Earth

to destroy 400,000 Hiroshimas.

For "extra credit", see Steven Okazaki's "White Light, Black Rain."

Author's Bio: Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).

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