The cakewalk
has become a bit sticky
some Iraqis have turned
their daisies
into rifles
& hand grenades
seems many
don’t like tyrant Saddam
nor foreign invaders
dropping cruise missiles
and cluster bombs
In Basra the water supply
has been cut off
and we are seeing
the possibility
of humanitarian catastrophe
war should never
have been viewed
as a latenight poker game
initiated by those
too zealous
to send their own kids
into urban combat
It’ll take millions of patriots
& internationalists
(truthfully the same folks)
to throw the lunatics
out the White House
Until then we are facing
more weekends from hell
as well more spring days
filled with thousands
marching down Broadway
for a democratic peace
This is one of the two
oldest stories on the planet
(both originating here)
Let the battle for ideas
replace those young corpses
growing cold under desert moons
ELIOT KATZ is the author of three books of poetry, including Unlocking the Exits (Coffee House Press, 1999). He is a coeditor of Poems for the Nation (Seven Stories Press, 2000), and the poetry editor of Logos, an online politics quarterly at www.logosjournal.com.
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