{"id":5967,"date":"2010-06-21T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=5967"},"modified":"2010-06-17T12:45:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T10:45:04","slug":"i-am-too-poor-to-go-to-war%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/06\/i-am-too-poor-to-go-to-war%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Too Poor to Go to War\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Poem<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am too poor to go to war\u2026<br \/>\nLet me tell you the score\u2026<br \/>\nYour last war left my crops asunder,<br \/>\nNow my children hunger\u2026<br \/>\nYou planted mines in my field\u2026<br \/>\nNothing but misery, they yield\u2026<br \/>\nYour current battle destroyed my cattle,<br \/>\nOnly a bull and a cow\u2026<br \/>\nBecause I am not a Muslim or a Jew, you allow me a sow\u2026<br \/>\nYour soldiers gloat that they got my goat\u2026<br \/>\nWas it the marines who stole my sheep\u2026<br \/>\nFrom you, many sorrows I do reap\u2026<br \/>\nWith preemptive interventions and multiple inventions,<br \/>\nYou tell me of good intentions?<br \/>\nWho is supposed to explain the detentions?<br \/>\nWith great math, the war\u2019s cost you do extend,<br \/>\nWith your latest military budget, me, you do offend\u2026<br \/>\nWho is to pay for road mending, for health care spending\u2026<br \/>\nFor student tending, for water vending\u2026<br \/>\nQuartermaster, halfmaster, fullmaster\u2026<br \/>\nWho would envision worse provision\u2026<br \/>\nDomestically, you insist on standard testing, with efficiency\u2026<br \/>\nYou teach war games with proficiency\u2026<br \/>\nWould that we could help children with educational sufficiency\u2026<br \/>\nWhile far away, thousands of troops are quickly deployed\u2026<br \/>\nIn iraq, bosnia, haiti, siam or thailand\u2026<br \/>\nAt home, the streets fill with the unemployed\u2026<br \/>\nI do believe\u2026 I am too poor to go to war\u2026<br \/>\nI am out of step, I am inept\u2026 I am too poor\u2026<br \/>\nYes, I am rich with other stuff\u2026 with Thomas Mann, I have a lease\u2026<br \/>\n\u201cWar is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.\u201d<br \/>\nWould I, would you, would we, if we could, afford peace\u2026<br \/>\nI am too poor to go to war\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Poem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}