[Newspoetry] not right but justified

[Joe Futrelle]

'With all of the roughly 20 hijackers involved the attacks believed to
have Arab backgrounds, these Americans say, the police and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation have ample reason to zero in on that
group. "It's not right," said Virginia Hawthorne, a retired accountant
from Bremerton, Wash., "but it's justified."'
-- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/national/23PROF.html

Virginia Hawthorne
(a power pop ballad)

CHORUS
Oh, Virginia Hawthorne
it's not right (oh nooo)
but it's justified

Virginia Hawthorne
it's black and white (so white)
and your hands are tied

airplanes touching down
in your hometown
red white and blue
on the fuselage

oil on your hands
and blood demands
what can you do
two car garage

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faces on T.V.
they all agree, it seems
no room to breathe
in the aftermath

halfway around the earth
what life is worth
no time to grieve
or do the math

So, Virginia Hawthorne
let's throw it all away
with scarcely a delay
revoke the articles that say
if it's not right ...

[heroic guitar solo]

CHORUS

--
Joe Futrelle
editor-against-chief
Newspoetry dot kom