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| Choices - marge piercy |
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| amatullah |
| 04/16/03 at 20:55:48 |
| Choices Would you rather have health insurance you can actually afford, or bomb Iraq? Would you rather have enough inspectors to keep your kids from getting poisoned by bad hamburgers, or bomb Iraq? Would you rather breathe clean air and drink water free from pesticides and upriver shit, or bomb Iraq? We're the family in debt whose kids need shoes and to go to the dentist but we spend our cash on crack: an explosion in our heads or many on the TV, where's the bigger thrill? It's money blowing up in those weird green lights, money for safety, money for schools and headstart. Oh, we love fetuses now, we even dote on embryos the size of needle tips; but people, who needs them? Collateral damage. Babies, kids, goats and tabby cats, old women's sewing old men praying, they'll become smoke and blow away like sandstorms of the precious desert covering treasure. Let's go conquer more oil and dirty the air and choke our lungs till our insides look like stinky residue in an old dumpster. More dead people is obviously what we need, some of theirs, some of ours. After they're dead a while, strip them and it's hard to tell the difference. -Marge Piercy Copyright 2003, Middlemarsh, Inc. A Note About the Poem: In January, 2003, First Lady Laura Bush invited Marge Piercy, along with many of the nation's best known poets, to attend a poetry event at the White House. In response to President Bush's then-pending invasion of Iraq, a number of those poets protested and were joined by others throughout the nation, who wrote poems in response to the upcoming war. There were 13,000 poems submitted, many collected, and offered for viewing on the website of Poets Against the War. A selection of those poems has been chosen (including Marge Piercy's 'CHOICES,' above) to be anthologized and will be published in April, 2003. To find out more about the anthology, please visit: Poets Against the War Anthology Thunder's Mouth Press / Nation Books (April, 2003) ISBN 1560255390 / 200 pp. |
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