of that night they start.

national | miscellaneous | news report Saturday March 08, 2003 17:04 by ipsiphi barcelona

or day

The War will be official. in Iraq. what will you do?

will you viodeotape all the TV footage?
will you start estimating the dead?
will you google for the names of
scimitar, sabre, saxon, spartan [tank]?
will you say "I told you so!"?

will you put a poster on your door?
will you go out on the street?
will you boycott anything?
will you post any letters?
will you sign any petition?
will you wonder how the shields return?

will you wonder how the refugees get out?
will you wonder how the biological divisions of the Bulgarian axis allies sterilise the goo?
will you wonder how the children will eat?
will you wonder will the allied axis forces surgically do what they do and not return in body bags?

will you wonder where your mother was maybe where your grandmother was when they dropped the bomb if they drop the bomb?

will you wonder where the prayers went?
will you wonder when the reprisals will start?
will you wonder will there be a Kurdistan?
will you wonder will Iraqis live there?

will you wonder when the peace will start again?

will you have something planned to do?
will you have planned something to do?

will you know the moment they say that their WAR is legitimate and declared that you have and others will know what you are going to do?

have you done it before?
have we, who now measure our global mandate from February 15th, who left the earlier watershed of Sept 11th behind thought what we will do?

how long will it last?
how long will we have?
- to do what we have planned / what we are planning to do?

How will "WAR declared" differ from Peace?

How will we know the difference?

Everyday food and water and medicines and fuel and information and infrastructure has been built in Iraq.
Everyday the military machine has increased in size, in energy input, in carbohydrate intake.

Where will all that work go?

Are you this time going to allow that "work", the labour of murder, lies, assault, rape, abuse, theft and terror that you know all WAR entails to find its answer that is ·your answer· on the sofa in front of a TV screen?

or at the pub?
or in the letters page of a newspaper?
or in the mouth of someone else tired of speaking and tiring to listen to?

Will you await the condemnation?
Will you read the words of regret?
will you absorb the statisics of "Saddam´s legacy"?
will you watch the Pope huddled in Rome say something about ·pace·?
will you link these things in your mind?
will you count these new deaths this new "scream" with Afghanistan?
or shall it be different?
will it be more of the same?
or will it be different?

you only need a couple of friends to find collective voice.
Peace neccesitates the presence and awareness of others.
have you yet found those other voices?
have you yet put collective mind to task?
have you yet come up with an idea what you, what we are going to do when "·that·" night comes?

or do you think they will not tell us?
would that matter?
Would it matter if Saddam had ceased to exist?
Would it matter if over thirty nuclear devices had already been detonated?
Would it matter if "Iraq" was already carved into little military zones?
Would it matter if the roads were already the long twisted tortured queues that are "refugee exodus pathways" before during and after every War?
Would it matter if it were all just TV.
like the first War.
over before christmas.
like the other War.
like Daddy Bush.
like Reagan.
Like Osama.
Like Pope
Like Mao
Like us
Like ?