In Jail Again

Holy Ritual of Resistance
        won't stop hammering "swords into plowshares"
        won't cooperate with war and violence
       won't join the Corporate crusade for an arms race, weapon sales, training
                programs in Schools for torture and murders
        won't bless Tridents and Seawolves, nor make holy those "Corpus Christi" subs
                and "Trinity" explosions
        won't advocate for those slavery sweatshops and poisonous waste-disposal
                sites in poor neighborhoods
        won't bow down in those "sanctuaries" of the courts, nor follow those "divine
                decrees" from earthly judges, prosecutors, and probation officers
        won't process with the club of "high priests" and "acolytes" who devour power,
                worship oil, and spread thousands of pounds of cruise missiles onto
                God's creation in Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Afghanistan, Vietnam
        won't pray and sing the "stars and stripes" words, won't be complicit, won't limit
                citizenship, won 't adore false gods of security
        won't drop those dollars on the tax collection plate that make the rich richer and
                those made poor poorer
        won't eat and feed from the table of disunion, demonizing a leader and a race
                while sanctifying another, making enemy faces in the family of God

Nope, just won't "Go in war to hate God's people and serve government."

                In jail again!
                        Resisting!
                        And free!

                                by Ardeth Platte, OP
                        (written in December, 1998 during U.S. bombing of Iraq)