Saigon, Vietnam 1963   Elderly Buddhist monk sets himself ablaze   Suicide as protest to the Diem regime   Complicit in U.S./French hegemony      D.C., Pentagon 1965   32 year old pacifist, father of three   Douses himself with gallons of kerosene   Under the window of McNamara      Detroit, Michigan 1965   82 year old woman burns herself to death   Despondent with the horrors of the war in Indochina   Charred bones thrown into the cogs of Apparatus      With great guns and reater hate   This beast thought itself equal to the force of life   Some say Apparatus cannot be stopped   Some say Apparatus cannot be stopped   Some say Apparatus cannot be stopped   One swallows dry and takes a chance      Defeat of the global American Empire   By a revolution of peasants abroad   And astonishing protest at home   'War is the health of the state'   And this Apparatus hungers for flesh   Those who threw themselves into that machine   Slippery with foam and blood   Choking the hangman with noose drawn taut   Made the gallows as holy as the cross   Some say Apparatus cannot be stopped   But one swallows dry and takes a chance.