Game 93

Round Two - Game Five
CHI 101               CLE 106

One thing about Vietnam
That made it different
Was that people watched it
Over dinner.

They saw it
Pretty much
How it actually was.

Brutal
And terrifying
And not how we thought
War
Was supposed to be.

Doesn't this game
Have rules?

Reality TV
Before we were conditioned
Not to see.

Real Housewives
Of the My Lai Massacre.

Before the killers were replaced with clowns--
And the rockets replaced with juggling pins.

People turned off their tvs
And marched.

They burnt bras
Tore up draft cards
And wrote songs of rebellion.

They made love--
Not war.

This is the danger of
The truth.

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Pale and pasty--
Almost flickering
Like a dying candle.

The Emperor’s hologram--
Here to watch his apprentice
And to assure victory.

Out from behind the curtain--
No longer hiding
This dark alliance.