Fuck you very much

(Written for Memorial Day 2015.)

to strifemongers
to chickenhawks
to war profiteers
to all those whose idea of patriotism
is sending out young people to die
trying to kill other young people
trying to kill them: 

FUCK YOU.  

to all those more concerned
with  the profits and interests of corporations
than the cost of permanent war
on individual humans and societies,
including our own: 

FUCK YOU.  

to all those who sow strife and dissension
to divide humans from each other
within artificial invisible boundaries
created for the sole purpose
of dividing turf
between wealthy and powerful elites
who then turn those same humans
against other humans on the "other side"
of those artificial boundaries
at the mercy of wealthy and powerful elites
more similar to the elites on the other side
than to their own humans,
including how they manipulate those humans:

FUCK YOU.  

to all who believe corporations are people
whose money is speech
and whose rights to religious freedom
trump that of actual humans:

FUCK YOU.  

To all whose ideology
trumps concern for human welfare,
for liberty, equality, and social justice:

FUCK YOU.  

And the horse you rode in on.