How The World Works

How the World Works

so much has to happen
for a line of ants to make it
back to the hole in the ground

three-thousand more people
need to bleed to death from
bullet wounds

ten-thousand people must
have limbs blown off and
watch their arms or legs
from a distance like
a stiff dead dog

five-million people have to
see any hope of retirement
pushed off the end of the boat

one-hundred more people need to
get very wealthy
while soldiers sing at night
under a foreign moon


Randolph Nesbitt

Posted over on Poets Against The War