The only good republican is a dead republican

Living here
in the land of the dead
one wanders through
the days
through the walking
dead
knowing what we know
seeing what we see
while driving by
standing by,
walking, talking by
the dead go about their business
just now
we had tried to bring them
back to life
but they won't have it
and because the centuries
of the dead
outnumber
(just over half)
the living,
they "win"
in a way
and are allowed to go on
comfortably dead
to any new ideas
to any foreign opinions
to the very idea that
anyone else really matters
while they count
like bright shiny
blood-spattered pennies
the American war dead
but don't count the
american war wounded
the american war twisted
and torn up inside
from killing the other
(uncounted) iraqi
war dead
still, you want to feel sorry
for these dead people
who will not have it any other way
as they send their
19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and up sons
and daughters to become the
dead sons and daughters
of the dead
while we, the outnumbered
look away
and just go on
living