Elegy for a world gone mad

Here I sit
all a-twitter
'cause our country's
in the shitter
thanks to Dubya
and his cronies
wishes are
like gelded ponies
dreams all die
on desert sand
soldiers lie
with guns in hand
died while fighting
died in glory
died though buying
Bush's story
Bush's lies
and Bush's fables
all disguised
at dinner tables
as our duty
as our mission
all the while
just some fool's wishin'
that his blotted
checkered past
would please Poppy
ah! at last!
I have finished
what you started
fuck Saddam!
you've been outsmarted!
still the coroner
counts the bodies
of the women
children
men
all dead
for one man's
sick vision
of manliness
Oedipus
wrecks
Iraq
Q.E.D.