When death by beheading
just the targets die
No bystander shredding
when children’s limbs fly
Nor any hospital wrecking
cultural desiccation
drone obliterated wedding
whole country devastation
Mass killings industrialized
by U.S. Exceptionalism
propagandized as ‘civilized’
though slaughter by Imperialism
Casualties mere ‘collateral’
when by Western Technology
While ‘war crime’ by Those Fanatical
of differing ethnology
Still each death an execution
under whatever delusion
In one by one retribution
or in conveyor profusion