The words they are a changing

August 3, 2007
Issue 

I'm old enough to remember when a rendition was the singing of a song

and old enough to remember when we knew right from wrong

when clusters referred to gems not bombs

when the Bushes were places that birds hid in

when collateral damage meant you'd lost assets

when civilian casualities caused concern

when daisy cutters were used to mow meadows

when climate change meant it might rain

when we paid countries for their oil rather than invading

and I'm young enough to remember that those were better days.

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