Act of Contrition
Kneel at the feet of the searing, Withered and flattened World, O my Country! Take your Penance And Swallow it. Ask the Kurds And the Yemenis And Nigerians and All those others with Brown hair and dark eyes Ask the Mothers and Fathers Across the World, Ask ALL of THEM to Forgive you. Forgive you for the horrors You have Shoveled upon THEM Like huge, burning COALS And the ruin you have made of Their Children’s Futures. Then, only then, Crying and rending Your Clothes--- Take all you have taken…