> Nora F. Crow
> Department of English
> Smith College
>
> 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land,
> not a critic was stirring, for stirring was banned.
> A thousand brown prisoners, snug in their cells,
> all held without charges or tinsel or bells;
> and mamma was wrapped in the national flag,
> while we sang "Where there's never a boast or a brag."
>
> When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
> I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
> Away to the TV I flew like a flash;
> I then watched "Survivor" and reruns of "Mash."
> The fireworks, exploding above the new snow,
> gave a luster of objects to people below.
> When what saw my wondering eyes in the flashes:
> a miniature George Bush and eight tiny fascists!
> Their jerseys were blue and said "WORLD DOMINATION";
> I knew right away this was not just claymation.
> More rapid than eagles the warlords they came,
> as the little Bush whistled and called them by name:
> "Now, Daschle! now, Ashcroft! Now Strom, don't relent!
> On, Poindexter, Rumsfeld! on Henry and Trent!
> To the top of the globe, while the crowd's at the mall,
> now bomb away, bomb away, bomb away all!"
> His sack had a war game for each girl and boy;
> his pocket, four billion from just Illinois.
> Far up on his high seat the driver did mount,
> with more massive weapons than Kofi could count.
>
> And then, I heard sounds from away off somewhere,
> the booming of bombs that were bursting in air.
> As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
> down the chimney old Dick Cheney came with a bound.
> He said not a word, nor disclosed his location;
> he wiretapped my house in the name of the nation.
> Then holding the strings of his little Bush puppet,
> he went to the chimney and quickly rose up it.
> The sleigh was still running, but Dick didn't hurry;
> gas guzzlers, it seemed, were no longer a worry.
> He popped the champagne and exclaimed as he served it,
> "The world is now ours, and GOD DAMN, we deserve it!"

The Smar5tTruck link given above should go to http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/07/army.truck.reut/index.html

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