You Can’t Make An Omelet

You can’t make an omelet

without wrecking the henhouse.

This is common knowledge in the army,

and among George Bush and his friends:

Democracy calls for a lot of kicked ass.

By kicking the asses of others abroad,

killing them off in such massive numbers

that those remaining alive give up,

we demonstrate, to ourselves and them,

the spirit of unalloyed capitalism

based in a heartfelt weapons industry,

cheap oil, multinationals, lots of lobbying,

banking large, advertising until we’re delirious,

and so on. In short, our ways of bloodying the world,

in short, American Democracy.

Thus, when we feel like using an egg

to cook up a future for, let’s say, Iraq,

we go: CRACK! IRAQ! SHOCK & AWE! ATTACK!

And lay another henhouse in splinters.