We Are Waging A Nuclear War As We Speak Poem by Herbert Nehrlich

They send them still to foreign lands,
with blessings of the folks who stay;
uplifting this, that wave of hands
the faithful citizens will pray.
Yes, once there was a time of need
when barons, filled with utter lust,
would mount their threatening stampede
to smash all living things to dust.

Defend thyself, says the good book,
it also mentions eye for eye
it's man whose reason undertook
to see the other fellow die.

Americans, you've got it made
your birthright by the Gods bestowed.
While Texas slumbers in the shade
you all have been severely snowed.

Have you, my Yankee friends been told
about the chemical D U?
Uranium has been cheaply sold
to field commanders leading you.

Oh no, you say, we must protect
our way of life, our profit margin!
Grossly obese, we stand erect,
prevent the enemy from barging
through borders fought for by our kin
and rape our women, cut our men,
with God and righteousness we'll win
destroy mankind's carcinogen.

We lose our boys on foreign soil
'Beware', the devil brags,
we smell the fragrance of cheap oil
and count the bodybags.

Unmatched today is Yankee Might,
we could just flip a switch
and set their very core alight
it's simply privilege!
How many bombs would be enough
to level desert regions?
The mushroom cloud would make it tough
yet we could pledge allegiance.

The children and the innocent
is what must guide our action,
God-fearing men who represent
humanity's top fraction,
we would not lose a single life
by playing carpetbomber,
and not again would any wife
sit down with an embalmer.

Well, let me tell you, son of sheep,
you have been sleeping soundly,
THEY had no promises to keep
but I condemn YOU, roundly.
Atomic warfare has been on
for just on sixteen years,
our nation's innocence long gone
among a sea of fears.

It's not enough to shower those
who do not dance your tune,
in Hollywood you too can pose
with hero Daniel Boon.

Uranium dust, you scatter it
among the ruins and castles,
your soldiers do inhale the shit
they say it ain't no hassle.

Make babies with a single eye
and tumours and leukemia,
condemn the families who cry
succumbing to toxemia.

DEPLETED means the stuff is weak
and will not be sufficient
to cause the sperm to spawn a freak,
meanwhile you are commisssioned
to carry out with heavy pride
all that your land requires,
dumb, on a rollercoaster ride
until all life expires.

Uranium will yet kill us all,
it's what your kind is gifting
to generations soon to fall
while toxic clouds are drifting.