N a p a l m H e a l t h S p a : R e p o r t 2 0 1 1
RICHARD WILMARTH
21st Century War Rant Crunch
Unreal
Hijacked
Airlines
Boston
New York
Washington, D.C.
21st Century
War Rant
Crunch
World Trade Center
Crash
Pentagon
Some parts of the world are cheap
Some parts of the world are expensive
People jumping out of windows
Twin towers collapsed
War against civilians
War against the military
Stock markets plunge
There is only one God
September 11, 2001
Airports shut down
F-16’s fllying over the east coast
White House evacuated
This is not 1812
Life becomes irrelevant
Government on a war-footing
Flights 11, 77, 93, 175
American psyche collapses
Close the Canadian border
Lock up Gaza again
Threat Com Delta
110 stories down
A lifetime to go
Full alert
8:48 a.m.
9:08 a.m.
Today we have a national tragedy
Disneyland closes
Baseball games cancelled
5,000 lives cancelled
Aircraft Carriers deployed
Call 911 an Inside Job
31 years ago PFLP blows up
3 jetliners in the Jordanian desert
What did Reagan do to Khadafy’s daughter
We will hunt down and punish who is responsible
G.W. Bush calls for a Crusade
Mullah’s attack the great Satan
22,000 caualties at Antietam in one day
Fredom attacked by a faceless coward
Pearl Harbor
Mass murder
Unyielding anger
Concentration camps
No distinction between terrorists
And those who harbor them
Evil
Who is responsible
Who is responsible for the cry of a baby
Who is responsible for the illness in all countries
What about the collective trauma
The nervous system gone bad
Who has compassion
What happened to JFK
Show me that Zapruder film again
Nature is the great healer
Images of sorrow
Others’ rights
Reconciliations
Capitalist globalization
Inequality
Extinction of species
Desperate people
A means to an end
Violence
Vulnerability
Arms dealers
Social contexts
Condemnation
What is citizenship
Where are the leaders
What is the appropriate response
What is decency
What is humanity
Where does the insanity stop
Let’s welcome the Muslims to America
We’ll show them a good time
What was in their minds
Savage rage
What happened to the Cold War
I was comfortable then
Is self-interest the only true motivation
What about the Iraqi mothers
The one true God
When you hold people down
They rise up
The Thousand Year Reich is gone
We couldn’t help it
I want more information on the politics of cruelty
Tell me who the bastards are
Give me their names
Give me more jingoism
AMERICA RIGHT
REST OF THE WORLD WRONG
The United States has created more carnage
Than any other country in the history of civilization
I am appalled
I am shocked
Give me more CIA-FBI-Missile Defense System Bullcrap
Bring back GW’s father
What about health care
Education
Human rights
Social security
My life is not irrelevant
All they wanted to do was steal resources
Sell weapons
Go through a structural adjustment
We are the most admired
We are the most hated
What are the causes
We are all in this together
I am angry
I am indignant
I want a stable world
No more global warming
Forget the interest of the wealthy
Repeal the death penalty
Let’s fall in love in the rain
What is shown to him is also in him
What happened was pathetic
I am not pathetic
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Usama bin Laden
It all starts from the family
The occupied territories
Imperialism
Religion
The belief in one God
Where’s the justice
Where’s the International Law
Where’s the restraint of the competing Fundamentalists
Who’ll stop the complex suffering
Energy follows the thought
Let’s have a dialogue
I can’t find peace
My arms are open
[September 11, 2001]
This poem by Richard Wilmarth (1949-2003) was retrieved by Arnold Peterson, who oversees the Richard Wilmarth Papers at the University of Rhode Island. For more on Mr. Wilmarth’s work, see http://www.uri.edu/library/special_collections/registers/manuscripts/msg165a.xml.