And from the peace offering, he shall bring a fire offering to the Lord
In the oldest days peace came
in the form of slaughter.
You can read the details of the ritual –
Which animal, what happens
with its kidneys and liver,
how it all becomes smoke.
Not far away and a couple millennia
gone by, the chief oligarch
brings a three mile convoy
of peace
and claims of NAZIs to sweep away.
Our pale of settlement
gets more pale.
Around the world the banks
make a forceful peace –
An electronic siege.
The technology of war
has kept up.
Meanwhile, the number of
living humans fluctuate.
Who or what do I need to
slaughter today to have my
peace offering heard? There’s nothing
in the fine print about this