Poem about Cassini by New York student

Peace through Reason (prop1@prop1.org)
Thu, 02 Oct 1997 07:33:47 -0400

At the "Stop Cassini" rally at the White House on September 28th, a young
woman read the following poem:

Cassandra's Cassini Casino

President Clinton,
if the Cassini rocket blows up,
you will be known as the President who brought the apocolypse.

Hey space knight don't you know you don't have any right
to kill us
with your rocket kite?
What do you think, you're thirteen?
acting all cool and mean...
I can't stand to be
in a democracy
of hegemony
and Cassini.

Ask Turkey
or Italy.
And Haiti
they'll say the same as me.

You're going to blow us away with the U.N.'s say
or anybody's okay
except a contractor's pay

Hey Billy Clinton,
is that a rocket in your pocket -
or are you just happy to kill us?

Turn OFF the JUICE, man!

In three years, we could launch Cassini
and power two probes with solar energy
don't you agree
we should respect humanity?

Or are you so blind,
not to see that Cassini means assinine.

Do you know whose land you'll spoil,
whose kids you'll boil?

Or do you not care?

cause after we're dusted
you might not get busted -
when there's perfect harmonium
in the land of plutonium

If it's the world you will sell
your heaven will be earth
]and your earth will be hel..

Even if you stay safe and sound
a mile underground
You'll have to watch reruns of Cheers
for eighty seven years.

Are you the anti-Christ?
Or are you just throwing the dice?
We didn't ante
you stole our tax money

So as you take your next breath
remember
Cassini's going to Saturn the ancient planet of death.
And your war against drugs
will soon be directed at mutants and bugs.

Your environmental VP
won't be able to run
a Presidential campaign
with only one lung.

You can try to hide behind a giant lead veil
But face it.
This time,
you'll just have to inhale.

by:
Maris Abelson
80 LaSalle St #114
New York, NY 10027
212-865-8928
fred@inch.com

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