Terrormaker - by Nicholson Baker

Published on Nov 1, 2012

This is an an anti-drone song. The words:

Terrormaker
Reaper man
Armchair aviator
Over Pakistan

Shoot from a distance
Win minds and hearts
Sending a message
With body parts

Can't you see
You're murdering me
Can't you see
You're murdering me

Creech's aces
In your La-Z-Boys
Locked in mock cockpits
Assassins by choice

Load your Hellfires
Stare hard at the screen
Flying over things
You've never seen

I fit the profile
I'm twenty-three
Can't you see
You're just like me

Go down the list
From the President's men
You malefactor, you coward killer, you terrormaker
Over Somalia and Libya and Yemen and Waziristan

It's kill not capture
Robot rapture
Can't you see
You're recruiting me

Show no mercy
Have no mercy
Let me know
When you see the target area below

Clear to engage
You'll feel no pain
Till after
You're an armchair aviator
Over Pakistan

Have mercy
Mercy mercy
Have mercy