[Newspoetry] Revision

[CJC]

Yertle the Turtle King          October, 2001 AD
 

The Star-Belly Sneetches are waving their stars

And snubbing their noses at none upon thars

And George Bush is young, and George Bush is old

And both save the children (or so we are told)

 

While the Whos down in Who-Ville are too faint to hear

as the Beezle-Nut stew grows ever so near

The Globe-Belly Sneetches are striving to say

that killing for killing is never the way 

 

The masters of war are at it again

They’ve a cat in their hat now, and so many "friends"

While Barbara Lee is threatened with bombs

for voting for peace in a congress gone wrong 

Albright says thousands (of children) are a fair price to pay, 

to get that Saddam – who’s gotten away

And Osama, we’re told, has ten years on the run

from his backers, the people whose war has begun!

 

I heard a child ask Jennings if the hijacker had kids

He failed to explain what happened to his

Perhaps in the camps where so many have died

at the hands of Israel with US by their side

Our tax dollars for Israel, and now……….more than ever

While they break peace agreements and illegally settle

 

Lincoln said the republic would succumb to corporations

which create their own wars and govern all nations

Eisenhower warned us of which it would be 

and now they employ us…..

**The brave and the free**

 

As Yertle the Turtle drops bombs on Kabul

and nothing is solved, so he’s dropping them still

On orphans and widows too broken to run

Not even elected and his war has begun

………….a war on a tactic
Though our constitution declares 
We reserve war for nations with none upon theirs

 

While the Star-Belly Sneetches continue to blame, 

another, the "other", though all are the same 

is Yertle the Turtle still destined to fall, 

becoming the weakest turtle of all?            ………………………

 



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