March 19, 2003
March nineteenth two thousand and three,
-twenty years ago today-
the world looked on in utter dismay
as America displayed shock and awe
and awe and shock
and the stock market climbed as high
as the bombs before they fell
from the Iraqi sky
but too few did what we would have others do
if we were attacked out of the blue
too few demanded to know why
as an oil man told lie after lie
after lie after lie after lie
and do you cry for all the dead
the known and the unknown
and the known unknown
and the unknown known
killed by a bullet or an unmanned drone
do you cry for all the collateral damage
we’ll never have to atone for
America doesn’t run on Dunkin
it’s always run on recruiters
funneling the poor into war
after war after war after war. …
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