Safe at home, they relax in gentility and decorum.
They call you a terrorist
because you defend yourself
against impossible odds,
rifles against tanks, and
occasionally, when their attention lapses
you give them what they have given you, and
then they cry out that you are
unfair, you are monsters,
you are inhuman, you are terrorists.
Safe at home, they recount their brave deeds.
In this land they now call America,
they did the same to my ancestors,
natives who were not like them,
natives who would not be enslaved,
natives who would not be dispossessed,
natives who would not suffer corporate filth
to over-run, suck dry and ruin
our homeland, our Mother Earth.
Safe at home, they now garden on stolen land.
They call this “doing business.”
They call this “spreading freedom.”
They call this “Democracy.”
In private, they call it “huge profits,” and
safe at home, they laugh as they count the money.
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