Militant Ignorance
To the tune
of “Devil or Angel”
Militant
ignorance, the bane of our recent times.
Our general
public knows little of unspeakable crimes.
Militant
ignorance of genocide in plain sight.
Revolting,
revolting, revolting.
Militant
ignorance with the help of the news.
If you rely
on the mainstream, I guess you have an excuse.
Militant
ignorance, kept in the dark every night.
Disgusting,
disgusting, disgusting.
A
self-governing people
Must be
well-informed.
Now our body
politic
Is hopelessly
deformed.
Militant
ignorance of the past of that little warped state.
Centuries-long
residents, crushed by ethnic-supremacist weight.
Militant
ignorance of the U.S. complicity.
It's
shocking. It's shocking. It's shocking.
Militant
ignorance of who molds the way that
we think,
Who fills up
the well of knowledge from which most of us drink.
Militant
ignorance of how we came to this pass,
Distressing,
distressing, distressing.
David Martin