4,000

It doesn't seem so long since that September morning
When the world turned on its axis-

In his new book-Greenspan said
"This war is largely about oil"
We knew this years ago, yet
The words still burn ears
buried six feet under-
riddled with shrapnel
soaked in gasoline

-and you know what I mean
These fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers-
These soldiers of black gold
voices drowned in tar and blood.

If Greenspan can say why
Then I must ask how-
SIDELINED APATHETIC BRAIN DEAD YOUTH-
STAND UP AND SAVE YOUR BROTHERS!

Mr. Greenspan said
that this war is saving us money
he said "$65 a barrel instead of $140"
That's this wars equation
Now we sit at $104,
oil's battered whore
and the price of a soldier?
$36???

They are worth more than dead extracted-compacted carbon
these soldiers breathe-
carbon that walks, thinks and feels-

living carbon that dies for black gold