Goodbye Mesopotamia!
Today
is in peril
Today is at risk
Today has been unearthed
And sold to black market
Presidents
Hustling
Tomorrow from a past,
The roadside bartering of history
Maybe recalled as liberation
In the annals of the New York Times
Goodbye
Mesopotamia!
Hello America
Seventy-two sorties per hour
Road maps to peace
bulldozed
Like tender flesh of
twenty two year olds
Goodbye
Mesopotamia!
You once owned a today
You once were a history
Now a
Memory
all alone in the moonlight
in the clutches of
Scoundrels canonized on
September 12
Remember
What they told us:
to love
Our country
Remember what
they told us:
to mourn our dead
Remember what they told us:
to go shopping
Remember what they told
Us:
that is what they said.
Goodbye
Mesopotamia!
10,000 years bludgeoned into dust
by 200 years of bad taste
and C+ cowboy lust
Goodbye
Mesopotamia!
Ancient history confuses us
shut down
Universities!
imprison professors!
eliminate
Textbook pages!
Bring back the middle ages!
Goodbye
Mesopotamia!
Texas finally became
Lone star
Republic
Assyrian
kings
Once adorned their palaces
With magnificent reliefs
The Iraqi people need
some magnificent relief
Relief\/Relief\/Relief
Refuse\/Refuse\/Refuse
Lays in the streets
And refugees refuse
To live on their knees
When they are refugees in
Their own countries-
We
will no longer
know of Assyrians or
Babylonia,
Just babbling asses
And the news
Of
Jessica Lynch
I mean
The noose of Jessica Lynch
Hanging our common sense
And dignity
Southern trees
Bear strange fruit
Goodbye Mesopotamia!
Family First Cards Welcome Here!
The Mighty Tigris is a trickle
The Mighty Tigris is a trickle
The Mighty Tigris is a dry bed
Seeping tears and
Running red
Goodbye
Mesopotamia!
Goodbye Bablyon!
Recorders of language
Lunar calendars
Original astrologers
Could you predict
Cavemen minds
Coming back
Reinventing prehistory
Bombing civilization with
Weapons
Back
from the future?
Isn’t
it ironic,
Don’t you think?
UN lifts
US led sanctions
Sanctifies
Their bloody hands
Bechtel
Haliburton
Who were those
CEO’s?
Rumsfeld and
Chaney?
Who trust politicians
Named Chainy?
Lucrative contracts
Consecrate invasion
Still no clean water
To wash out damn spot
Despite the deluge
Of American dollars
Now your 20 bucks is worth
Bad luck and
Such
Go loot the schools
The hospitals
The soil
Liberation is costly
Muhammad, profit (prophet)
some holy oil!
Good
bye Mesopotamia!
Ancient civilization
Hello
BurgerKingKFCCIA
Fast food nation
Grimace runs amuck
Shooting and looting
Let us ask ourselves at this
Funeral,
This service,
This (una)wake:
“Mirror
Mirror on the wall,
Who’s the crudest cowboy of them all?”
Why
you are King Bush,
You are mighty unfair
The unfairest indeed
Of them all!
Your madness unsurpassed, now
That you have stolen the future
and the past!
“Seriously,
Syria,
you’re next!
Iran,
you better run!
Y
Cuba, tu tambien,
Mira, mira in my mirror!”
Goodbye
Mesopotamia!
We have resurrected
the bones
Of Christ
Ask a hungry man
On the side of the road
He’ll give you a good price
Are
the Iraqis still dancing?
Are the Iraqis still dancing and
smiling for the camera?
Are the Iraqis still dancing
Waving flags that you gave
Blowing kisses to Bush
And exhuming mass graves?
The sorties flew
The sorties flew
The sorties flew
Seventy two bombs an hour
Dropping
Dropping
Dropping
In the greatest waste
Of human resources
And intelligence
And little
Boys and
little girls.
George
bush, your madness unsurpassed
Now that you’ve annihilated the future and the past!
Goodbye
Mesopotamia!!!
Goodbye truth and debate
Maybe they lay
Casually casualties
Next to the weapons
Intended to destroy us
That were never found
But look how we have liberated them
Look how we won
Oh beautiful for spacious skies,
Remember
the politics of
Water are chilling
Killing millions
Of children
Killing millions of children
Killing millions of children
Goodbye Mesopotamia!
Hello
Rachel
and
Monica
and
Chandler
Joey and
Ross and
Good
bye Mesopotamia!
Good bye Mesopotamia!
Good bye Mesopotamia!
Your memory flows
Anxious like the rivers.
Tracey
Luszcz
Copyright 2003
