Lettuce

Lettuce
produce
let us
deduce

from Space ….. Programs, our lettuce is now laced
with perchlorate

percolating down on us, from the Pentagon into our ground
water now runs
Colorado, white and corporate blue
to feed the few

Oozing into our view, comes news that, that missile
that landed in Iraq, attacked us too
from Kerr-McGee … that salt
that peppered Afghanistan
ran down river to sandwich you
into

understanding what goes up comes down
destruction’s production in trace amounts
attacks not just “enemies” but me and U……….
S.A.
irradiated for defense, now irrigated to sow
into our homes vegetables grown
on Defense Contracts
that shuttle us into space
looking skyward as our thyroids erupt

Through a let U.S., Rumsfeld and Bush avoid environmental regulation
they propose a “Readiness and Range Preservation Initiative”
that protects munitions, ammunition but won’t detect
an aftertaste, a last … ing supper
that creates a void in your thyroid
that won’t let us develop a brain
powerful enough to stop the drainage
that fuels
missile envy and the Space Race
mili … tar … ism
chemical warfare, weapons of brain mass destruction
percolate
through the Senate, into our house
we let U. S. make us into vegetables
lettuce … adage to the burger that …
insures our brain … will waste away

This is the mad cowboy’s trickle down effect
it makes perfect corporate sense
the Department of Defense, the Pentagon
the Stars
War
try to trace your thyroid’s fate
amounts of perchlorate in parts per billion
that trickle intra-geniusly from multi-million-airs
into your water, into our graves

Let us
have lettuce not infused
with rocket fuel that lifts off on our funds
to land
but leaves us with ground, watered down
river
from plants, that implant us with the leftover
sandwich
which
percolates with perchlorate to resurface as

Lettuce
let us
resurface
to face perchlorate is directly related
to the offense of the Department of Defense and all the rest
who believe in protecting U.S.
is more important than defending
we,

the
People, and our
Constitution

4/29/03