[Newspoetry] poem for the CIA: "unmanned"

[clare c]

dear editor,
i have another poem for you to use if you like.
if you do, please list my name as "clare
christina" and change my other poem ("texas art
thieves") so that the author is me and not
"gothica mcsadpants," which is just the silly
name i had on my outgoing messages at the time.
also "thief" is spelled wrong in line 16.
here's the new one:

unmanned

i wish someone would tell me
how the cia can fly a missile over yemen
and kill 6 people just like that. who do i call
and say, 'you can't spend my tax dollars
to blow up cars from the sky.'
unmanned does not mean
no one is responsible
just that
no one will be.
my friends and i
don't even make that much
money, so you could say
we didn't contribute a whole 
lot to this assassination.
or you could say
it means that much more to us.
can we like joan baez write
a little note to the irs next year:
sorry irs, i cannot pay 60% of my taxes
as you will just use it
to kill people.

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