Bonus Army (Not about Palestine)

Nineteen-thirty-two, nineteen-sixty-eight,

two-thousand-twenty-four,

there are barricades and big burly policemen

all around the encampments

full of women and children,

full of those who care about justice.

The policemen are there to keep the peace

safely locked inside the camp.

while those who chant

for violence and oppression

are free to roam the great world.

Barricades and big burly policemen

are pleased to be in the service

of the powers that be, in the service

of the little men behind the curtains,

in the service of death and destruction,

for those who love peace

will always be the terrorists.