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The Language of War
A Poem by:
Michael Hillmer
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In a Pentagon document "bullets" are referred to as being "kinetic energy penetrators" ... "combat" is referred to as "violence processing."
Doublespeak is language that only pretends to say something. It's language that hides, evades, or misleads ... words are used not to extend thought but to limit it ... it is language that makes the bad seem good ... the U.S. Army doesn't "kill" anyone, they just "service the target" ... it wasn't an "invasion," it was a "predawn vertical insertion" ... "soft targets" are cities ... actions start happening to fulfil the words that have been spoken.
William D. Lutz
Professor of English Rutgers University
Author of: Doublespeak Defined |
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These are different hours
That turn our mind, send it
Down the dead-end alley
Littered with past follies
Draped in flags
With words that transcend or deceive
The very bones of definition, feed inward on themselves
Their fog hovering, descends
As if sheltering some hidden compulsion
The age was not ready to see
2.
Trace their lineage back far enough
On the walls of caves
Is fallen blood
A tri-color blur
Red white and blue.
Michael Hillmer
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