padded with power here they come

international loan sharks backed by the guns

of market hungry military profiteers

whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared

with the blood of the poor



who rob life of its quality

who render rage a necessity

by turning countries into labour camps

modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom



sinister cynical instrument

who makes the gun into a sacrament --

the only response to the deification

of tyranny by so-called