Bring me men/bring me men/men with empires in their purpose.
1.
Twenty-five day war
Palm Sunday Jesus walked palms
Baghdad goes to town
2.
Nauseated now
unemployed undertaker
shores oil shores oil shores
3.
It's wall-to-wall oil
while in Asia SARS scares US
brown people get used
4.
Seven are alive
sun beats down sandstorms of change
Saddam's DNA
5.
Beat around the Bush
he who convinces US to
send him send her, them
6.
Coalitions forced
looters snatching newfound rights
abandoned palace
7.
Troops first took a shit
to prove that global shitting
isn't all missiles
8.
While running down streets
gargantuan torso goes
a boy smacks its head
9.
In Hussein's Tikrit
U.S. soldiers sun themselves
in khaki relief
10.
Guided by voices
is Syria next in line?
Five more years, he said.
11.
Wearing White House briefs
makes Rumsfeld, Powell and Rice
Oreo axes
12.
Televised liars
tell truths we don't want to face:
"We'll run that city."
13.
Arms countered by will
bomb suicidally bomb
coalitions dumbfound
14.
In America
box-office receipts are up
sunshine returns home
15.
Rita Dove wrote that
she's "crueler than government"
poems often are
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