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There is a god...
Posted by Eunuch (Guest) eunuch@attoz.com - Monday, December 1 2003, 2:49:35 (EST)
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...and she can be found in the following poems...or in Valium [that's for Kris]

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Ian Reed

40 years old

Ian grew up in England and has lived in the U.S. for 12 years. A voiceover actor and narrator (including the National Library of Congress), his poetry has been featured on British radio, published in the U.S., and performed in Shakespeare projects funded by the British Arts Council. His collection of poems about the Invasion of Iraq, entitled 'Poetic Injustice', is at: http://www.reedandwrite.com

Pax Americana

Now pours the sewage in the Basra street
And cholera takes up her wasting reign.
The Tigris and Euphrates are defiled
While on the earth pours radioactive rain.

Now lies the treasure house of history
Raped, ransacked, pillaged, looted, and laid bare.
Now grieve the parents of the infant scorched.
Now weep the widows, hostage to despair.

Now bullets ring out on the city streets.
Disease and hunger breed with enmity,
And cluster bombs, beneath unwary feet,
Perpetuate boring atrocity.

Now journalists of independent voice
Their unheard protests sicken and decay
Whose predecessors, for exposing lies
The U.S. told, with murdered lives did pay.

Let anarchy relate the weary tale
Since Baghdad's generals were bribed to flight.
Now let repression reap the Fourth Reich's rule
As petty criminals are shot on sight.

Yet must Iraq its new-made Führer praise,
Embrace its conqueror and desolation,
Declare in unison with happy heart
"Thank you, Herr Bush, for bringing liberation."

Interim Report

Here in the center of the hurricane's eye
We sleep in peace, while nearby shock and awe
About us on the doomed horizon whirl
Where storm clouds for a child's tears pour.

Iraq irradiated, refugeed,
Swims in her own blood on the searing pyre,
And by our hand, the dogs of war unleashed,
Hell's ministers of famine, sword and fire,

Abetted by our splendid soldiery,
Ravage the country to secure her spoil,
Press on to rape the daughters of Baghdad
In noble quest to pilfer pillaged oil.

Even for just 10 righteous souls, the Lord
Had spared the wickedest of nations, Sodom,
But bombs fall on the righteous and unrighteous
Alike in Baghdad, likely missing Saddam.

One thousand cruise missiles rained down to mark
This infamy that history shall requite.
As angels wept for frail humanity,
Bush signed all of our death warrants last night.

We hate Osama bin Laden because
It's wrong to kill civilians to enforce
An ideology or a religion
But Bush in kinship charts the selfsame course.

Because two maniacs don't make a saint
Nor two wrongs, right. And eye-for-eye makes blind,
Especially when you strike the wrong eye back,
Bush is bin Laden's brother, of one mind.

For western values and democracy,
Bush makes decree to overthrow regimes,
Enforcing his dominion on the world,
Conceit to countenance his crookèd schemes.

Now from this fine example to the nations
Of virtue wielding supremacy,
The Middle East shall emulate, he says,
The bloodstained blessings of Democracy.

Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
He rules in little brief authority
And being dumb shall never come to learn
The meaning of a Pyrrhic victory.

"We go to free the peoples of the world!"
Dystopian fantasy, pie in the sky.
"We will deliver food and medicine."
Son-of-a-Bush, why did you have to lie?



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Eunuch (aka Jeff)

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