{"id":19999,"date":"2016-02-04T08:45:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=19999"},"modified":"2016-02-04T08:45:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:45:03","slug":"poet-takes-aim-at-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/02\/poet-takes-aim-at-election-campaign.html","title":{"rendered":"Poet Takes Aim at Election Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Health Warning<\/font>
\n” … Only the religious slaves \/ Of a militarized state \/ Will be elected …”<\/em>
\n

<\/a>

Illustration by Elena Caldera<\/p><\/div>Saturation Coverage
\nOf the US Election
\nCan cause brain damage.<\/p>\n

For nine months
\nUS Supremacism
\nIndulges itself<\/p>\n

In an election
\nFor the US President.
\nSomehow or other<\/p>\n

This always involves
\nThe US electorate
\nWatching candidates<\/p>\n

Spending billions
\nOn trying to persuade it
\nTo elect murderers.<\/p>\n

Only the religious slaves
\nOf a militarized state
\nWill be elected.<\/p>\n

No applications
\nFrom pacifists or humanists
\nWill be entertained.<\/p>\n

Four million homeless
\nHave no representative.
\nIt\u2019s mass murderers<\/p>\n

Who are elected
\nTo rule the richest country
\nIn the entire world.<\/p>\n

Support for this farce
\nComes from people believing
\nThat America<\/p>\n

Sets an example
\nTo the world\u2019s democracies
\nAnd should therefore have<\/p>\n

Mass media coverage
\nNon-stop, twenty-four seven.
\nIt\u2019s relentless.<\/p>\n

Male or female; black or white
\nIt will be a mass murderer
\nWho is elected.<\/p>\n

The moral high ground
\nIs laid claim to by the world\u2019s policeman
\nAs the mass-murdering begins.<\/p>\n

In the US election,
\nA corporate dictatorship promotes
\nIts Presidential toy<\/p>\n

And the President\u2019s wealth
\nIs increased by his term of office \u2013
\nOtherwise, no change.<\/p>\n

No one has vision.
\nIt being beyond their Presidential imaginings
\nTo think of a world beyond war.<\/p>\n

Heathcote Williams<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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