IN THE 2000’s

CANTO III: Untitled

By Tony Castro

 

 

THERE WAS ONCE A CERTAIN

CEO OF HALIBURTON

 

 WHO ESCAPED INTERNMENT

       BY THE VIET KONG

 

  BY SECURING FIVE DEFERMENTS

        FROM VIETNAM

 

NOW HIS WALLET’S SO FAT

HE’S “HAVING A HEART ATTACK”

 

INDEED, HIS GREED

HASTENS HIS CORRUPTION

 

AS HE PROFFERS LIES

ABOUT WEAPONS, MASS DESTRUCTION.

 

THE CONGRESS IN REGRESSION,

FEARING MIDTERMS, SO NONE QUESTION

 

EXCEPT FEINGOLD AND BYRD

AND WELLSTONE, NOW INTERRED.

 

THOUGH BLIX INSPECTED

AND NO WEAPONS DETECTED,

 

CONGRESS – WEAK, DEJECTED,

MEEK, AS WAS EXPECTED –

 

SUBORNS EQUIVOCATION,

COMMITS ENTIRE NATION.

 

WAR COMES FAST,

PLANS COCKAMAMIE,

 

WEAPONS AMASSED?

CAN’T FIND ANY.

 

 NEOCONS ASK

“WHO CACHED

   WEAPONS PLENTY?”

 

 RASH, UNABASHED,

 NAME TEN TO TWENTY:

 

  “IRAN OR SYRIA

  YEMEN OR IBERIA

 

  THE PHILIPINES, NIGERIA

  THE KOREAN INTERIOR

 

  INDONESIA OR SUDAN

  ‘CAUSE THEY READ THE KORAN?

 

JORDAN OR PALESTINE

HIGH TIME THEY FIT THE CRIME

 

NOT LEAST BUT LAST THOUGH

MARXIST FRIENDS OF CASTRO.”

 

IN THE 2000’S DECEIT WAS CHIC

CRONYISM

PHONY MISSIONS

TIMES WERE BLEAK

 

MASS CONFUSION

NSA INTRUSION

A HIJACKED CONSTITUTION

LEAVE THE PEOPLE WEAK.