Eating Sunflower Seeds at the Armageddon

Sunflower seeds and heavy weight champions  
bombs dropping down on hospitals and schools  
land is all that ever really matters  
open a refinery memorialize them with crude  
turns out the rain of Armageddon looks like missiles  
greed and power from a ferruled eyed dog    
fight from the streets and rooftops  
death and destruction a bloodied woman cries  
now gas is so high I can’t afford tickets  
to see my favorite rock band at the Fox in Detroit  
so, I go to the diner and scream at the waiter  
finally, the power I’ve sought is in sight  
battleship tells them to lay down their weapons  
the snake it recoiled and shot these words back  
to the warship it responded “go fuck yourself”  
do we even remember what those words meant?  
cities and towns bombed and surrounded  
nineteen-year-old Olympian one of the dead  
i took a selfie to put on social media  
somehow, it’s important to get likes from my friends  
never thought about donating to a food bank  
some time to the needy and torn  
look at my posts tell me how much they matter  
hurt and betrayed if I’m left all alone  
scream and yell at whatever grieves us  
as an invader attacks them, they fight till they fall  
call ourselves patriots  
we’re no patriots at all  
have we lost sight of our allegiance?  
look to the Ukraine and why they are willing to die  
remember that we must all stand together  
if we are to maintain our beautiful prize