Book Of Secrets: Bug Splats: Terminated Human Lives Poem by Terence George Craddock

Ukraine War gets media promotions
under Star Wars theme drone wars
a hot sell concept to hook viewers

a hot sell concept to hook viewers to support
Ukraine War justified with patriotic hard sells
necessary Ukraine male drafted noble sacrifices

but let us take a quiet stroll down memory lane
back to 2014 military slang; predator drone bug kills
predator drone operators refer to kills as 'bug splats'

predator drone operators brag about kills as 'bug splats'

human life splatted like a bug splatted on car window
human life splatted no value respected bug splatted on car window
no need even to clean up mess bug splatted on car window

operators sit safe in classified locations
celebrate 'bug splats' scores with burgers
victory drink tasty celebratory beverages

burgers and shakes a common party mix

origin of military slang 'bug splats'
yes our old trusty friend technology
limits in past deployed technology

'predator drone operators'
were viewing body kills
through grainy video images

which gives a time sense
of an insect being squashed
crushed to splattered mess

who will challenge this insensitivity
'raise awareness of civilian casualties'
'an artist collective installed a massive

portrait facing up in the heavily bombed
Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa region of Pakistan,
where drone attacks regularly occur'

drone attacks central in past war time zones

our U-turn detour to path Pakistan necessary
to explain an update drone camera 'operator sees
on his screen is not an anonymous dot on

the landscape but an innocent child victim's face'

'child featured in the (Pakistan) poster is nameless'
imposed upon the landscape is victim dead nameless

'according to FFR, (sources)
lost both her parents
and two young siblings

in a drone attack'
predator drone operators
kills! 'bug splats'

burgers and shakes

an artist collective wants
to challenge this mentality
a 'group of artists traveled

inside KPK province...
with the assistance
of highly enthusiastic locals,

unrolled (innocent child victim's face)
poster amongst mud huts and farms'
'hope... (image) will create empathy

... introspection amongst
(faceless) drone operators
... will create dialogue

amongst policy makers
leading to decisions
saving innocent lives

amongst heartless faceless policy makers
... leading to (compassion humane) decisions
that will save (child civilian) innocent lives'

remember rules operating in Afghanistan
justified kill a hundred wedding guests
if one Taliban leader might be present?

funny insane this policy is never a war crime?

artists create creative
powerful visual response
to daily drone attacks

all officially signed off sanctioned

reveals a critical weakness
in Common Core ELA Standards
a focus detached safe sanitary...

focused almost exclusively on mastery
of written words keyboard for efficient purposes
gaining knowledge communicating ideas

will service personal United States
trained predator drone operators
our faceless task loyal hired killers...

'... yield an involuntary blink'
a reaction to a child victim image
'before getting right back

to... comfortable slaughter groove,
pass the coffee please …' lukewarm hot
protest what will change be achieved...

an artistic brilliant practical resistance
can influence inspire humanize the rest of us
except wall disconnect foreign strangers...

a few barrier problems faceless too far away

a vast mostly silent overwhelming majority
are too busy oppressed in personal life struggles
another housing monetary crisis bank collapse

ensures quiet acceptance of insane murder policies
food inflation homeless starvation stateside stops
humane concern protests over foreign killed lives

never forget camouflaged great green war machine
recruits selected civilians sometimes innocent humans
domesticated neutered for sole purpose war murder

is war not sanctioned legitimized target killings
wounded personal kicked out to solo face sanity issues
hit flash backs unaided if usefulness is used up?


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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