And when they bombed other people's houses, we
protested
but not enough, we opposed them but not
enough. I was
in my bed, around my bed America
was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house.
I took a chair outside and watched the sun.
In the sixth month
of a disastrous reign in the house of money
in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
This is open to interpretation. Having started with the collective “we” the poet now uses the first person singular pronoun.  He does this to narrow down the focus to the individual and personal responsibility. 
 One may visualise the speaker taking the chair on to the porch and watching the sunset, a cliche certainly. It suggests rest and contentment; failure to recognise danger elsewhere.
We Lived Happily During the War