Another Angry Protest Poem

• I

The dead of Chernobyl,
Died
For nuclear power...
Free tumors for everyone!

Geronimo,
And old Yellow-Hair,
Ask you to die
For the land....
Quite similar men, those two,

And the dead of Stalingrad
Ask you to die
For Communism ....
and for the Reich...
Working that out, though,
May not be fun

The Confederate dead want....
Well, nothing good
But being dead
Still expect it

The dead of Ireland...
Want more dead in Ireland....
So support the I.R.A!

The suicides of Iraq
Simply forgot
"No son of a bitch
Ever won a war
By dying for his country...."
Are we any smarter?

• II

Still--
None of the dead,
Mind the squan-der,
Both here,
And in far yonder
Of casualty, the currency of war!

Nor do they pay any mind
At any place or at any time
To the casualty that comes the first...