[lit-ideas] Sunday stuff
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:27:56 -0400
I found this when I went through a notebook for the other one. -EY
"2000 Election"
From the bunkers of six-figure retainers
and carefully marketed media sinecures,
the TV pundits agreed, all banter aside:
"This election was decided without tanks in the streets."
It's something we can be proud of.
And it's true. Tanks are bad for streets.
Yet behind the self-congratulation,
rows and rows of tanks wait,
motors idling, ammo loaded,
to decide an election in the streets.
Which streets will the tanks occupy,
and what will they do there?
Will tanks battle other tanks,
or face crowds with Molotov cocktails?
And just how good are tanks at crowd control anyway?
Will tanks edge down narrow alleyways
or hold hilltops in last lines of defense?
And why mention tanks at all,
unless to spotlight unreasoning force,
to say tanks will be there
when elections fail?
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