by Tom Karlson
financed by Iberian Jewry
the Admiral, Christian or Jew, Spaniard or Italian
leads 120 men in the
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
sailing south and west
India bound
crewed by:
Milton Friedman and his Chicago University goons
in charge of propaganda, interrogation, discipline,
race and class consciousness
Prescott Bush and George Armstrong Custer
compose the voyage manifesto and mission
below deck are the sun-dried souls of
Rasputin, the Popes, Sylvester the Second and Benedict the Ninth
in charge of rape, incest, and family values
Pinkerton and J Edgar Hoover
spying, pimping, and procuring stool pigeons
Kenneth Lay
finance, mergers, and loans
Edward Teller
munitions
Robert E Lee’s horse Traveler
will show the way home
where Ferdinand and Isabella’s bishops
find Jews to murder and maim, books to burn, Moors to exterminate
Columbus will trade
measles, diphtheria, small pox, and malaria
for gold and land
as he works out the science of genocide on Hispaniola
never forgetting the University’s tools of slavery colonization
religious fanaticism and free market capitalism
Tom Karlson is founder of Poets for Peace, Long Island, NY.