The American War

We've mechanized you

We've commercialized you

You are not the thing once thought of as a desperate struggle
a patriotic duty

a glorious undertaking of which you would depart this world for its success

Valhalla is extinct, and now you're a profession,
a college grant,
a social experience

You're not the shock and awe conflict between just and unjust

You're a video game,
You're a movie,
You're the process for an economic boom,

You are the American war