We Have Become Death

Source: NY Times 5/22 A photograph of restaurant in Baghdad where 13 people were killed by a suicide bomber

We Have Become Death

We have become Death
Our credentials cover the earth
Like leaflets avowing our good intentions
But we are destruction come to stay
Outliving our welcome
Spreading like AIDS
Infecting religion, commerce, art, the sacred , the marketplace, the home, the streets
Death has become our work
We use it like a spray to disinfect our displeasure with the oder of other lives
Satisfied
We turn to the big screen, a cruise, an indulgence, a meal
" It is for their own good."
We have become Death.... "the right thing to do."