The Big Machine

'...and he actually held up the weapon before our eyes, and there, dressed

in a suit and tie, he smiled and told us with pride in his voice that "this

model was largely represented in the Gulf war!".

He was so very proper and clean. And so alarmingly blind!'

Welcome inside the machine

It hurts!

Go numb, go blind...

One's drilling out a pipe

One adjusts the aim

One makes trigger parts

Weapons as a game!

All trapped in killing routine

Washed clean...

...by this machine

On these grey walls

Lovely pictures of the weapons we produce

But not their actions...

All are part of the big Machine

We do our job

"Guilty!"

But what if we save?

And what if we solve?

And what if we build?

And what...

...what if we lose control?

What if we lose control?

What if we lose control?

What if we lose control?

(I am just a wheel!)

...and what if we ...stop?