Bitter Harvest

A Billion a Week, And a body a day
A bitter harvest expanding, A bitter power play
And don’t give me that crap, About the victory lap trap
Of the Prez on four acres of steel, While he gloated and preened
And declaimed the whole scene,
Some folks with a goat and a sneezy pre teen
Mistook no for go and were promptly marined

And some grunt named J. Jimmy
Lord his wife sure is fine
drop his helmet liner on a pressure trip mine line
And Antoine and Bear Were the only ones there
When that thing at the roadblock went South
They’ll speak when they’re ready but why bother talkin’
When your eyes say far more than your mouth

And Tired? Tired?
Oh, God, Tired.
And the chin strap set tight
crisp and lean

And the moment you want more than to be far from this war
is the one in your dreams  where you’re clean.
The lie that looms large by the Barons in charge
is the one where we haven’t a choice
That we have to invade for a debt left unpaid
and free us from Tyranny’s voice
We must move quick with a Shock and Awe Schtick
To defend against W.M.D.” s
To delay would give to a terrorist’s raid
And unsheath the sword of Damocles

But in Pentagonese, they never cross link That it’s Damocles INC.
A fairly large arms subcontractor

We’re forgeting some stuff
Thinking that’s America enuf
That will do and it did
Now you haven’t got time cash or care
Young folks need work, the market’s berserk
The economy’s squealing the tires
Your 401K is now a 401 J
And you better not ever retire.

STOP!!!!!
TAKE A BREATH
Don’t think this can not be solved.
The answer is as simple as Civic One
You have got to get Involved.
 You cannot sit home letting Toxic Lawyers roam
The halls of power waving money in their hands
Cause Lady Luck favors the mega buck
And enuf Big bucks fill up grandstands

One out of two of us said I don’t care
Voting’s a waste of my time
Somebody’ll fix it Someone’s in charge
The Guy with the Bible seems fair.

So the stacking began with Wolfiwitz the man with the plan.
Like Rumsfeld and Perle, a no voter and Ashcroft was outpolled by
A crossing the river sticks boater

They’re hard cash anointed and Right Wing appointed
To procure some cariacature ‘stan Land
When half don’t vote, our nation’s military’s found
with its troops boots deployed on 130 nations ground

Brown and Root build Thon-son Hut, Da Nang, Camh Rahn Bay
They didn’t even bid to work Iraq, Don’t say Cheney don’t earn his pay.
We cannot lose sight of the Corporate Creed.
That the only thing quick as speed is GREED
But the Cost and the Dying aren’t the worst words reservoir
No, that’s a billion a week and a body a day
SO FAR.