Regarding rumors of a post-election draft<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, the poet A DRAFT IN THE AIR?<\/STRONG><\/P> Don’t believe the rumor spreaders; Regarding rumors of a post-election draft, the poet speaks: A DRAFT IN THE AIR? Don’t believe the rumor spreaders;Buncha lousy battle-dreaders.Scared to fight for country and king— I mean, our man in the West Wing.With every American casualty,The Prez is exporting liberty.Corpses for the Iraqi nation —Our contribution to globalization!Reinstate the oldtime draft?Unpatriotically daft.Leave it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-eI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nspeaks:
\n
\n
Buncha lousy battle-dreaders.
Scared to fight
\nfor country and king
— I mean, our man in the West Wing.
With every American
\ncasualty,
The Prez is exporting liberty.
Corpses for the Iraqi nation —
Our
\ncontribution to globalization!
Reinstate the oldtime draft?
Unpatriotically
\ndaft.
Leave it to the Prez, all wise,
To do with private enterprise
To undertake
\nwhat’s sure to be
The final, final victory.
Onward, onward, private troops,
Best of
\nall the fighting groups.
Bush’ll tap the kill professions:
Here come the Haliburton
\nHessians!<\/P>— Leon Freilich<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"