Number One
America is number one
in gentrification and
fat-bellied malnutrition
America is number one
in heart attacks and Big Macs
NAFTA, GATT and PATRIOT Acts
America is number one
international instigator
human rights annihilator
peace talks compromiser
sovereign state subverter
genocidal gangster
heartless warmonger
America is number one
gun-related murderer
military aid sponsor
landmine creator
Landmine Ban Treaty opposer
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty violator
weapons of mass destruction manufacturer
weapons of mass destruction wholesaler
America is number one
anti-Asian atomic bomber
Vieques missile dropper
anti-Cuban embargo enforcer
Grenada invader
Sandinista repressor
Panama Canal repossessor
illegal Israeli state promoter
Palestinian dehumanizer
United Nations sanction rejecter
World Court decision ignorer
World Bank debt encourager
America is number one
Third World dictator supporter
reactionary coup d’état orchestrator
tyrant Augusto Pinochet protector
Osama bin Laden financer
Northern Alliance and Taliban installer
Afghani heroin lab starter
Columbian cocaine crop importer
mobster collaborator
crack smoker
Latino and African drug felony incarcerator
America is number one
indigenous culture destroyer
native land confiscator
Diné and Hopi Scorched Earth relocater
Middle Passage cartographer
slavery progenitor
intentional syphilis injector
Klu Klux Klan racist hater
Emmett Till lyncher
America is number one
civil rights denier
segregationist Jim Crow law author
affirmative action eliminator
freedom movement infiltrator
Black Panther assassinator
Anti-Assata Shakur conspirator
Betty Shabazz widow-maker
Amadou Diallo undertaker
South African apartheid benefactor
World Conference Against Racism deserter
contemporary usage originator of the word “nigger”
America is number one
witch hunter
gay slayer
sexist under-payer
patriarchal propaganda disseminator
female inferiority advertiser
self-hating plastic surgery brutalizer
compulsive brand consumer
America is number one
rape survivor blamer
hypocritical life-saver abortion clinic bomber
forced Norplant-for-welfare sterilizer
welfare demolisher
free healthcare preventer
anti-holistic healthcare practitioner
toxic medication prescriber
crack-a-cola drinker
America is number one
election vote miscounter
presidency seller
democracy hijacker
mad cowboy-diseased liar
congressional kickback negotiator
rich CEO defender
big business bed partner
corporate tax break underwriter
corporate newscast rewriter
America is number one
artwork censor
art grant defunder
falsified evidence supplier
radical literature suppressor
book burner
international wiretapper
citizen surveiller
personal privacy revoker
political dissident detractor
America is number one
slumlord building arsoner and insurance money collector
natural resource decimator
acquitted Exxon oil spiller
outer space plutonium dumper
America is number one
undocumented worker exploiter
innocent immigrant registrar
innocent immigrant jailer
innocent immigrant deporter
World War II Japanese internment camp builder
Operation Paper Clip Nazi war criminal relocater
America is number one
impersonal war cover-up euphemism inventor
Christian supremacist missionary brainwasher
Catholic priest child molester
Iraqi child starver
library closer
school dismantler
prison builder
School of the Americas torture educator
America is number one
electric chair inventor
death row sentencer
childhood executioner
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg offspring orphaner
Mumia Abu-Jamal incriminator
America is number one
and I am one angry protester
And will I ever
stop being a fighter
against this evil empire?
Never
