[Newspoetry] George W and his MBW Disorder

[DL Emerick]

Does "W" stand, at all, for anything?

A man without a country behind him,
A man with only country folks behind him,
Aided and abetted by corporate forces,
And crazy-for-power neo-con ex-libs,
With a taste for the blood of a nation,
Any nation opposing American Empire.

The country folks are simply ignorant,
Hating complexity in the wider world,
Thinking all things as simple as seasons,
As regular as sun, wind, snow and rain --
Go to church, your grave, and heaven.

In the country world, ugliness is sin,
always functioning as some complexity,
some unproductive usages of nature --
for Nature, so they believe, is beauty --
and one can not but wonder and worship,
and yet believe in a high order, in God,
whose simple magic makes all things be.

Their cause "W" purported to adopt,
With vast corporate money up his sleeve,
And most of that energy and defense money,
As if energy and defense were one thing.

Now, this axis of evil is what "W" means --
An ignoring of equality, poverty, racism,
Of health care and other social problems,
Preaching a doctrine of the will-to-power,
Resonating in claims of faith-based rule,
Where none are responsible for the other,
That one-for-one=none-for-all is right --
When prison growth exceeds factory output,
And the sinful, one by one, are punished,
And other degrading torture is meant well,
Because the sinful never have any rights:
A ruling faith-base blinds itself to truth,
Costs energy-defense wealth thus avoids.

Country folk once were progressives,
With eyes focused on their own living,
How their lives were made miserable,
how big money interests offended them --
but now they yack about moral emptiness,
about morality that does not concern life,
but the suppositious idea of an afterlife,
that somehow, they will "live" forever,
if they can somehow crush out ugliness --
The progressives became reactionaries,
Blaming wrong parties for sinful fates --
And yet, still minded to save the world.

Now, "W" didn't perceive all of this --
He is only quite convinced of himself,
Loving of power, lording it over others:
It was the likes of Rove who saw this,
That deceptions of faith could win rule:
"W" stands only for this evil axis rule --
His "X" is unknown, dreadful, complex.