Halloween
Halloween marks the way to the season
Of remembrance: let the dead be recalled
To mark how too frequently peace has stalled,
For which there’s one fundamental reason,
The persistence of capital in its
Voracious pursuit of profit, heedless
Of the inhuman cost, of the needless
Near countless lives lost. The market sits
In impersonal judgement as to where lies,
Not a moral, but the fiscal value,
Wherever barbarism’s breaking through,
No matter which blood drenched flag it flies.
Leaving the haunted, those who always lose,
To appear almost live on rolling news.
D. A.