"Remembering More than the Alamo" and "George Herbert Walker Bullshit"
Remembering More Than the Alamo
I was in downtown San Antonio
walking to the conference center
thinking this city
was pretty progressive
but then I heard that cowardly word
erupt from a truck
passing through traffic
you know the word
meant to disembowel
meant to eviscerate
to lynch an entire
genetics
it was directed behind me
at a family heading into Denny’s
refusing to look up
as if this wasn’t
the first time it happened
the kids trained
to keep on walking
like that famous photo
of a young black girl’s
first day of school
Little Rock nineteen
fifty seven
and here we are
seven decades later
a racist rapist
in the white
supremacist house
encouraging the most
deplorable animosity
that swastikas and slavery
aspire to enflame
fuck yeah I was shocked!
and shocked that this shock
hadn’t shocked
the family
and hell yeah I was bummed!
to never be able to separate
this city’s history
from what some dumbfuck
publicly
puked
but this isn’t about me
this is about that family
trying to digest
two moons over my hammy
at Denny’s
where an oversized American flag
flaps over the parking lot
smeared with the toxic shit
of hostile
redneck
ignorance.
George Herbert Walker Bullshit
America has a nasty habit
of turning murderers
into martyrs
especially when
it’s funeral time
case in point:
when George Herbert kicked the bucket
he was billed a gentleman
(which is partially due
to contrast with belligerence
occupying office now)
born into a dynasty
that dug up Geronimo
and profited from Nazi cash
oil tycoon George Herbert Walker Bullshit
oversaw CIA torture
in collaboration w/
Dirty War dictators
down in South Amerigo
who disappeared
sixty thousand
not only that
George Herbert Walker Bullshit
made it okay
to blast sixty six children
out of the Iranian sky
(not to mention
two hundred and thirty
bonus adults)
before starving millions of civilians
into squalid rubble dust
while bombing Baghdad
à la Dick
Cheney chaining
military to
a million more collaterals
“Principled bipartisan moderate”?
Bullshit again!
While flying the Willie Horton flag of
outright racist fascism
George Herbert Walker Bullshit
ordered some crack
to entrap a black
teenager
for fearmongering scourge
on live TV
imprisoned for a decade
Keith Jackson’s life
paid the price
for media stunt
of George Herbert Walker Bullshit
stating verbatim
“I don’t care
what the facts are”
thereby paving way
for eastern bloc oligarchs
and setbacks from
his mutant son
some of us remember though
how much George Herbert Walker Bullshit
was loathed before and after Gulf War
so let’s stop smearing
lipstick on this pig
cuz thanks to the same campaign
that covered up global warming
& slandered science
& media as enemy
it’s easy these days
to paint a war criminal
as patriotic
patriarch
especially when
a far right alt white base
is too hoodwinked to give a damn
that a well informed electorate
is a perquisite for
democracy.
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Mark Spitzer is the author of 31 books, most recently the edited collection Best of the Sucks from MadHat Press. He can be seen on reruns of the "Alligator Gar" episode of River Monsters or hiking around in the Shawangunk Mountains of New York State with his dog. Currently a professor somewhere in Arkansas, but probably not for long. For more info, visit sptzr.net. Mark recommends UAnimals.