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No More Blood for Oil!
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- Title: No More Blood for Oil!
- Category: Poetry
- Author: Patrick Mackeown
- Posted: 31 Oct 2006
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No More Blood for Oil!
A man's blood stains tides
Grotesque and twisted
A bloated, floating corpse
bobbing in an apathetic sea
His hands drift uselessly
They held a baby once
His chapped lips kissed
farewell, grieving wife
Dying soldiers gurgle
Salt seawater weighting
They fought for corporations
Expired for profit's sake
A man's blood stains tides
The guts of nations seeping
But does it mark consciences
Of Western politicians?
No blood for oil:
Patrick Mackeown
About the author
Patrick Mackeown is the author of the highly recommended thriller novel The Expendability Doctrine. He was recently interviewed about his work by The Leicester Review of Books.
