A Paradelle for Donald Rumsfeld
by Ronald Wallace

Another car bomb goes off in Iraq.
Another car bomb goes off in Iraq.
Don Rumsfeld shakes his head and smiles: stuff happens.
Don Rumsfeld shakes his head and smiles: stuff happens.
Another Rumsfeld goes off in Iraq.
Don car bomb shakes his head and smiles: stuff happens.

George Bush is busy with strategery.
George Bush is busy with strategery.
The last preemptive strike was no success.
The last preemptive strike was no success.
The last George Bush is busy, no success
with strategery. Was preemptive strike

the only option in the face of 9/11?
The only option in the face of 9/11
an unnecessary war? Chaos? Thousands dead?
An unnecessary war. Chaos. Thousands dead.
The face of chaos, the only dead option:
thousands in an unnecessary 9/11 war.

Was (is?) George Bush the only option?
Off in busy Iraq, the dead thousands
face Don Rumsfeld. Chaos smiles and shakes
his stuff. An unnecessary last car bomb
of preemptive strategery goes with another strike.
No success happens in the 9/11 war.


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Copyright © 2007 - Ronald Wallace
Published: 3/22/07   ·  Author's Page   ·  Next Poem