Home of the brave?*

Drones dealing death from a distance:
Home of the brave?
Cameras on every corner
Conversations captured:
Land of the free?

We have made a mockery of D-Day
unless the deaths were meant to
line the banker's pockets
and fill the champagne flutes
of fat generals.
How many ways we dishonor the dead.

Away from the grid
a woman in a hippie dress
grows herbs.

Self fulfilled
or hiding?