War Profit Litany

To Ezra

These are the names of the companies that have made        money from this warnineteenhundredsixtyeight  Annodomini  fourthousand        eighty

These are the Corporations who have profited by merchan-        dising skinburning phosphorous or shells fragmented        to thousands of fleshpiercing needlesand here listed money millions gained by each combine for        manufactureand here are gains numbered, index'd swelling a decade, set        in order,here named the Fathers in office in these industries, tele-        phones directing finance,names of directors, makers of fates, and the names of the        stockholders of these destined Aggregates,and here are the names of their ambassadors to the Capital,        representatives to legislature, those who sit drinking        in hotel lobbies to persuade,and separate listed, those who drop Amphetamine with        military, gossip, argue, and persuadesuggesting policy naming language proposing strategy, this        done for fee as ambassadors to Pentagon, consul-        tants to military, paid by their industry:and these are the names of the generals & captains mili-        tary, who know thus work for war goods manufactur-        ers;and above these, listed, the names of the banks, combines,        investment trusts that control these industries:and these are the names of the newspapers owned by these        banksand these are the names of the airstations owned by these        combines;and these are the numbers of thousands of citizens em-        ployed by these businesses named;and the beginning of this accounting is 1958 and the end        1968, that static be contained in orderly mind,        coherent and definite,and the first form of this litany begun first day December        1967 furthers this poem of these States.