Steven Schroeder | a discourse on war
1
Every war is a war of choice,
but everyone
who chooses a war
says it is a war
of necessity.
2
Of necessity,
every war is a war
of words.
3
If a war is a war of necessity,
there is nothing to do but suffer it.
But every war is a war
of choice.
4
Every body count
counts some bodies,
not others.
5
Count them,
count all of them.
6
All turns
on what we mean
by “we,” what we think
must be possible.
7
If peace is possible
war must not be necessary.
It is politics, by all means,
and politics is a war of choice.
8
Never let the world forget
peace is an art of the possible,
a composition for the left hand.
It must be possible.
Chicago
6 March 2022
