The Blood Spattered Banner

WARNING -- This poetry may incense and inspire. Attacking religion, science, and conventional views on reality.

THE BLOOD SPATTERED BANNER
(written during the "victory" celebrations of the first Gulf war)
by Park Teter

O say can you see
By our victory's delight
How proudly we failed
At peace and goodwilling?

Our bright kids and smart bombs
Through the fairy tale fight
O'er the TVs we watched
Were so gallantly killing.

And the rockets' red glare,
Children bursting in air,
Guaranteed that the price
Of our oil will be fair.

O says does that blood spattered
Banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the fool
And the home of the knave?

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