artwork: ralph murre
RICHARD
NIXON MUST DIE
(for all the victims of
the war)
by
Dan Wilcox
Richard Nixon, the 37th President of these Divided States,
must Die!
Because the cure for cancer lies rotting in a rice paddy
of Viet Nam--
Because the next, best President of the United States has
no legs and is locked in a VA hospital in Buffalo--
Because the new Martin Luther King, the new Malcolm X got
his head blown off in Hue--
Richard
Nixon, the 37th President of these Divided States, must Die!
Because the hope for world peace is crawling thru these
streets looking for a fix--
Because the answer to the World’s economy is busy selling
her ass on the neon highways of L.A.--
Because the way to feed the children of Africa disappeared
in a malnourished brain in Ethiopia--
Richard Nixon, the 37th President of these Divided States,
must Die!
Because there is no hope for any of us, because it is all
out of control--
Because Wall St. is there, buys our Presidents, our
Mayors, our Congressmen--
Because the Declaration of Independence is enemy
propaganda--
Richard Nixon, the 37th President of these Divided States,
must Die!
Because campaign workers are paid to steal and rob instead
of sticking labels and dialing telephones--
Because our contributions now go for wiretaps and
surveillance instead of buttons and salaries--
Because especially the stay-at-home voters are holy, the
salt of the Earth, and the politicians are not--
Richard Nixon, the 37th President of these Divided States,
must Die!
Because the FBI is listening right now, the CIA is
listening right now, the Tactical Police Force is on your line right now--
Because you really can’t read everything you want and they
have already censored this line--
Because Lenny Bruce died for our sins--
Richard Nixon, the 37th President of these Divided States,
must Die!
Because the townhouses of America are exploding around
us--
Because of Watts, and Newark, and Miami, and Chicago--
Because every city is Chicago and Chicago is everycity--
Because our best minds are being taught the M-16 when they
should be playing guitars--
Richard Nixon, the 37th President of these Divided States,
must Die!
Because America’s best children are dead, or lost
underground, or gone to Sweden, to Canada--
Because there are really no sacred places, the Indians’
burial mounds are breweries--
Because the state of poetry is not really a state but an
occupied territory--
Richard Nixon, the 37th President of these Divided States,
must Die!
Because Tricia Nixon has the largest collection of stolen
panties in the Free World--
Because Pat Nixon is a raging nymphomaniac hiding in the
body of an aging Methodist Barbie doll--
Because America is sick of its rulers’ televised weddings
and black-tie inaugurations--
Because when we really need him Lee Harvey Oswald is
nowhere to be found--
Richard Nixon, the 37th President of these Divided States,
must Die!
Because we no longer just know someone who has been raped
but have ourselves been raped--
Because even our bodies have been denied to us, to others,
to the future, and we are told “No, stop it, it’s wrong”--
Because it is better to get power than to get laid--
Because when I kissed her she cried and cried because she
wanted me and she wanted to come and she couldn’t let me--
Because when I wanted to love America I was told to go
kill someone I didn’t even know--
Richard Nixon, the 37th President of these Divided States,
must Die!
~ first published in The
Greenhell Gazette
