Napalm A Moral Burning Agony: Napalm Use In War Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

fly by death from sky predators
from biplanes to bombers jets;
rockets atomic to smart bombs drones
soon to be controlled by hand phones;

a new fashion emerged during Vietnam war conflicts
fly by death from sky indiscriminately slinging bullets;
at innocent farmhands soon to be bad rebel insurgents
understandably collateral damage boasted recruitments;

hearts and minds lost pissed-off rebel native survivors
shot at from canopy safety of bullet-resistant cockpits;
rocket-throwing demon whirlybirds that blew up homes
while zooming in upon tick prey flesh and blood targets;

napalm lit up the landscape carpet bombing killed cockroaches
with undesirable communist ideology fast cured tendencies;
pleased with research backroom boys at Dow; US army sources
original napalm wasn't so hot it was scraped off by quick gooks;

burning in agony trying to preserve their lives in their lands
just adding polystyrene made napalm sticks like s-hit to blankets;
but if salvation water was saving grace close by; in target areas
jumping under water stopped napalm burning for lucky gooks;

blessed to live on with hell fire flesh eaten serious burns
blackened roasted bombed again among friendship corpses;
white phosphorus was added to inhumane napalm recipes
evolution perfection makes napalm B burn better relentless;

just one dropp is enough discovered our research Dow boys
it keeps right on burning through flesh right down to bones;
phosphorus poisoning will kill any chance gook survivors
original napalm usually burned for hell only 15 to 30 seconds;

napalm B enhanced test boasting can burn for up to 10 minutes
chemists at Harvard University first develop synthetic napalms;
to burn Germans Japanese during 1942 for U.S. Armed Forces
Dow Chemical Company proudly surpassed Harvard efforts;

manufactured napalm B from 1965 to 1969 for US armed forces
news reports leaked describing napalm B's deadly disfiguring effects;
were published poor Dow Chemical experienced customer boycotts
of all products its recruiters chemical engineers produced leapers;

International law evolved prohibits use of napalm incendiaries
not against military targets but against civilian populations;
United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
CCW in 1980 banned use against innocent civilian populations;

Protocol III of the CCW restricts use of all incendiary weapons
many states have not acceded to all restrictive CCW protocols;
who signed CCW but did not sign protocol III the United States?
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you consciences?


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