peace & friends
                  
I want you each to make a peace-chain 
with your friends
as if on this chain our very peace depends
by osmosis even those with other ends
will be touched by what each of us intends

peace leaflet

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truth
                  
living up to what was taught
ignoring what we've watched and thought
on a brave day when truth is seen
we wonder where it's always been
 
u.s. mess 
         
         
iraq whack 
crack attack  
         
         
britain bitten
britain battin' 
         
         
iran ban 
caravan scan
         
         
saudi affordi 
lordey gaudi
         
         
korea engineer 
severe fear 
         
         
taiwan garrison  
halcyon comparison
         
         
philipines machines
teen marines  
         
         
france vigilance
protestant's dance
         
         
moscow show 
no to-and-fro
         
         
bonn shone 
con long gone
         
         
indonesia appeasier
say cheesier
         
         
malaysian phrazin'
brazen dispraisin'
 
         
australia 
failure?
         
         
         u.s. mess
         
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in we have been took
                  
a knave stepped on the rubbish bin
to deftly grope the biscuit tin
with cowboy style and hearty grin
to capture booty from within
he would, while father's measurin'
stretch past the tallest drawing pin
chest out, head up, and in with chin
but on tippy toes to take us in

 
kick the cat
                  
Revenge is foremost in our minds
our hearts are iron-clad
that we're going to kick the cat
is very very saddam

 
sanction
                  
         
I sanction you, I bless you
you, my fellow kinstance
         
whereas sanctions encase 
a constrained populace
like so many revolutionary ants

 

         the world will have to pay
                  
spitting bullets into nowhere the missile bill's untold
there's got to come a balance on a quiet reckoning day
at home they cut the taxes while ejaculating gold
I haven't sussed the income stream, but the world 
will have to pay
         
         abduction
                  
united nations resolution
fourteen forty one
is scrutinized with eagle eyes
through an adjudicator's gun
         
I think we'll take some scientists
they'll be more relaxed that way
we'll describe them as defectors 
who saw the error of their ways
         
I'll  ensure my job is done said Blix
if appropriate an arms reduction
but I'll never ever conspire to be
a conduit for abduction
 
mobile weapons factories
                  
we went  to Iraq
what a lark
mobile weapons
in every park
         
driving round 
on every road
weapons factories
that could explode
         
even with vigilance
cruising round
you can't find plants
that can't be found
         
in fords and chevs
and cabs, alas
saddam stirs up
his poison gas