At the behest of Stygian
war lords
our unkempt Sumerians speaking
Akkadian
hammer away
the stone tablets
cuneiform
are you with me
on this one?
and thousands of miles away
buried in the sand up to his
neck a bedouin is dying

Tanks drive like
video games through cities
that housed thousands of families
ancient games of power
hundreds of thousands of people
displaced by war
and foreign enemies
are to blame