More Ghastly Poetry

So I had to write some senryu poetry to help out a friend of mine, and I came up with this wee guy:

through kaleidoscope
of eyelashes blurred with tears
rainbows in your smile

After thinking about it, I started to think that "Japanese Poetic Forms" has an equivalent aesthetic value to "Nazi Gourmet Cuisine" or "Mongol Embroidery." So I came up with this little slap to the Nipponese death merchants that raped Nanking, marched thousands to death in Bata'an, and flouted the Geneva Convention for the Treatment of Prisoners of War...

terror in Nanking
cherry blossoms and carnage
stained with Bushido

Not that I'm some sort of racist or anything, but I'm tired of the Germans getting all the bad rap historically. Everyone forgets Stalin murdering the kulaks and starving the Ukrainians. Chairman Mao's casualties of the Cultural Revolution are quietly ignored as a footnote in a record book of ChiCom indiscretions. Pol Pot's auto-genocide is quietly harrumphed by such weasels as Noam Chomsky. Incidents of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, Rwanda, etc. have become as pedestrian as each release of a Kevin Costner movie.
But no, every time a politician has to open his yap and try and appeal to some sort of culturally ingrained horror and revulsion, it's always about the Germans. Moammar Qadafi is the most evil man since Hitler. Saddam Hussein is the most evil man since Hitler. Manuel Noriega is the most evil man since Hitler.
I reckon that it's time that the blame for all of the world's suffering and tragedy gets spread around a bit. I'm just starting with the Nipponese, since their tradition of ruthless exploitation has essentially begun anew following the reconstruction period of 1946-50. They still treat other Asians as second-class human beings, and other Asian nations are just slop-troughs filled with natural resources for their ravenous zaibatsus to devour. So two fingers up 'em from me.
Cheers,

-mARKUS
¥Justice for the 96¥