A TRADITIONAL RITE OF MANHOOD?
Why do men play at war?
What form of self-importance is realized?
By making ones self into a personality- less pawn?
G.I. ID#, dress and style the same- a mindless Gnome?
How the masculine machismo is gratified!
By marching in formation, memorizing Security Orders!
Kitchen police, saluting, passing menial inspections!
Spit shined shoes, bed tight, Mickey Mouse is in order!
What great achievements of manhood are performed?
Maiming and destroying others- as well as yourself?
Learning to shot a gun? Blowing up something?
Going to a foreign land to kill people- not like us?
For what great cause or purpose?
Does the addicted emotionally scar filled veteran return?
Having become a "real man" by experiencing
The inhumanities and insanity of manhood!