We are Right

 

I wrote this a month before George W. Bush lying got us into a war with Iraq. This poem was published in a local paper. I rarely write poetry, maybe once a year. Another poem is at: http://hubpages.com/hub/Reading-Your-Work-in-Public

 

A few months before that event a very bad accident occurred, forty or more motorists sped top speed into a fog bank where ten died in a fiery crash. Yes, I thought to myself, those motorists were as mindless as the people who want us to go to war.

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I am right

George W. Bush is right

We are going to war

We need to go to war

I can feel it in my bones

In my head, my back, my arms, all the way down to my legs.

 

I drive fast to work

I will get ahead

I am important

For those I passed are not

No one will stop me

I can’t let anyone slow me down; my radar detector protects me.

 

My flags fly in the wind

My sport’s team will win

American’s team will win

My flags fly fast on my car

I speed because I can

I charge though rain, snow, and fog; traffic will not stop me.

 

People call me all the time

I am so important

My office needs to be ready

My customers will be sold

I make it happen

I call to get my Mocha Cafe, Cheese Danish, and New York Times.

 

I carry a gun

Because I am important

We will be at war

To protect our country, to protect our oil

To protect my manhood

To gets that better parking spot, the last loaf of bread, and the remote control.

 

George W. Bush is right

I am right

We Are Right  =  WAR.

 

Be careful out there, give Peace a chance.