HEY JOE!

Hey Joe! Don't fight that war!
You don't really know
what you're fighting for.
There are men around a table
in a secret room somewhere
and they have stocks in this war.
They've invested so much money
it cascades like a stream over rocks
along the banks of corporate profit
from the needless manufacture
of killing machines.
And it flows down the Capitol
where Republicans and Democrat
are washing their constituents along the shore
and playing tic tac toe with us
and through the levees of the White House
where some crazy idiot smiles
and shouts "Let's Roll!".
And it thunders over generals
who need an army of soldiers,
you and me,
to fight the war on the shores of Tripoli.
Is this really worth fighting for?
Hey Joe! Don't fight that war!

Jay Frankston
wlp@mcn.org