[Newspoetry] poem for the CIA: "unmanned"

[Joe Futrelle]

At 10:28 AM -0800 11/5/2002, clare c wrote:
>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.

ok will do. I like "gothica mcsadpants", btw

>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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