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while guarding railways in baghdad
it only seems to make them mad
when geogie send the troops to sea
it hardly seems to set them free

here we are, outside the town
and no one friends seem canding frown

hurrah for afghanistan, last weeks war
but what going on is peace or more

fun in the philippines
o down columbian way
but rummy and ashcroft have nothing to say
what are doing, below the surf
what was it worth - and whose plunders serf
peels the turf

dangerous playtime, out in the field
and they're testing new nu-clear weapons
what well it yield?
or is the record sealed

and they don't want to say
i heard that before, so wait, what's the delay

you don't want to tell
your a company man
he's no Ari Flasher
a neo-wanted man

when neighbors bray at every door
dear george boys do scheme for more
the deep red trough 
pour it out 
at length
too easy queasy hear and weary
even seem to see the startled stench
the snaggle tooth wench

when even lection fall to bux
it hardly scheming seems to bode
big boulder brunch erode

the delegate hunch
the lawyers bought lunch
on where to invest
in the voting machines
they leave no train
no tracing grace

it hardly seems fair, all too easy to court
when all the voters tallies, abort

and georgies war chest swellls and swells
when demos stumble, scramble nudge
and stockmarkets bills don't even budge
cheerless sell, and shell and prices stall
while wages, draining drip down the wall

but the landed gent gets extra rent
and grocerys know where the money went
cause the taxman comes for the working poor
he don't have they key
to the richmans door

again the call for massive arms 
and new fighter fronts bring better burns
and we've bitter wetter bombs than those
what's mine and yours, and thumbs his nose
mines takes your toes and the carnage grows

our european allies fly
when georgie's sorties fl-armies 
sore score their neighbors flavors sky
and cannot find a helping hand when 
arnies armies scour the land

and rumsfeld, whose fuel name I'll never use
can earn such dues, with killings misuse 
our valiant land



send armies far from friends, to lands 
whose use they've special plans
that only later, when clatter demands

 proud pennies, pore into plates
a two-penny petty paltry vision 
of the unstable  state
a penny purse for partisans 
sure sorry use of this great land

could heath care
 fall into the plan, then in more than senators, 
pockets land ?

with seeming zest they send the troops
emptying boots and tapping foots
are they so noble those fit no finer few

but what we,  with our great power do
teaches more than branded stations
washing across with the liars oblation

how many lands will we sledding troops
place our army, tear out groups
who loud, proclaim we - terror they!
and whose the victims, who can say?

while they mess in foreign plains
do they, can they,
not make some gains, what state 
each state - it cries allowed

and go unheeded, yachts can't see them
while cutting taxes, no rich man pays

matching medical madness, 
can make some claims
but beanie babies call the shots
when you to your doctor, 
or your dainty auntie hops

while some can maintain
with a war-chest that plain
dallas palace dollars to drain
it hardly requires ...he had a brain

but what if he doesn't 
when cutting park staff
hear the jeer of the giraffe
does the deer and the bear 
and the elephant laugh

when all the air cannot hold birds, 
cause the rain in the stream
on the crust of dust,
that only kills folks
who don't live in big boats
with the limos, and langour and pure parties galour

bow wow
to the frog barking out by the door
and the cat kills a rat that had twenty four feet
and the corn on your plate,
on the shelf for eight weeks 
arrived genetically pathetically too late
to do you any good, 
when it lands on your plate

but what do they know
those neuro euro pals of ours
when we can't even count on them to hate
all that stuff over there
that looks so good on our plate

we abhore such fair weather friends
when they don't deign to due, just what we intend
when we're out for a stroll, and shooting the role
someone gets in our way, can they make amends
depends, how deep their knees bend

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