The Imperialist

compassionate conservatives
save fetuses kill faggots
and pray

lady liberty
weeps a tragedy in spring
hide huddled masses

bomb the bastards back
to mesopotamia
the black gold is ours

ice shelfs keep melting
consumption is a birthright
buy more suv's

my father's father
plucked cotton for founding
fathers who plucked flesh

strip her dignity
pilfer her peaks and valleys
crown ourselves in jewels

duck a terrorist
back in the day communist
next month a neighbor

don't admit mistakes
paint yourself a patriot
concede basic rights

evangelical
chatter permeate a war
guised in moral values

and what moral values
exclude famine, poverty
and universal health