GUEST POET: WARREN BROWN
The President Lies About Iraq
Remember
when the president
used only
to lie
about sex?
Ah,
different days
different president
All things
change
all things pass
The slippery
sex lies
now slippery
oil lies
Nine-hundred
million needed
to import oil
and gas
to so richly
blessed
a place in both
Blessed by
whom
you ask, Whom
the eternal
Whomness
who forgives
Anything
but misplaced
affection
and
misplaced
cigars
As tankers
hugely cigar shaped
get shipshape
for carrying
lovely
oil to Iraq
Have we
got it backwards
sexy, oily
lies
God sent
and God inspired
Stick that tanker
in there
lovely sand land
but
don't tell
the wife and kids
Ah,
remembrance
of sex
and prosperity
Dust in the mouth
now
oily dust
Not even
a blue dress
to tell
the tail
(c) 2003 Warren Brown
12:26:52 AM 
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