Let them eat gas

[alice wellintown]

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in.
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHuPJjQ7yeg

On 9/2/13, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe the Syrian conflict is an imperial plot hatched in the bloody war
> room, the gas leaked from the oil satellites, into the rooms where children
> slept fitfully. Maybe not.
>
> Maybe Washington wants the revolution in Syria to succeed. Maybe not.
>
> Maybe the insidious creeping of neo-liberal capitalism, more deadly than
> gas, and clearly in use by all sides is the WMD. Maybe not.
>
> Maybe Obama hit the replay on the tube, so we Thanatoids are watching
> a re-run  of the Bush-era lies that led to the war on Iraq. Maybe not.
>
>  Maybe Syria's dictatorial President Bashar al-Assad and the 40-year
> rule of his family is nothing but another brick in the old cold war.
> Maybe not.
>
> Maybe its time for an Arab Winter. Maybe not.
>
> Gas tyranny, corruption, occupation, poverty.
>
> Let economic development, social justice, real representation and
> democracy Spring.
>
> Let them eat gas.
> Let them eat gas.
>
> Oil and blood.
>
> Noam Chomsky said.
>
> Spread the revolution.
>
> Spread the revolution.
>
> Let them
> Let them
>
> Oil and Blood.
>
> Eat Gas.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk4aP0hsen0
>