Me, Mrs. G and a dark alley.Also the poet W.D. Snodgrass...read on...TALKING HEADSTV’s handpuppets don’t ooze out one word These days about Iraq’s oil. That can be taken For granted. Anyone tuned-in will have heard Strongarm democracy brings home the bacon. Once we’ve inflicted freedom and secured Men’s good will, we’ll sleep sound, dream right, then wakeTo heaped up platters. Nobody’s been forbidden To mention things that nobody dares think – That’s honor among thieves. Still, once hidden, Loot can be sluiced off, quicker than a wink. And where’s your take gone then? Best check your eyelids: Sly thieves and robber barons never blink.Slick puppet masters have to keep track who’s Made a killing and who’s been double-crossed To bury it on the dark side of the news, The brain’s recycle bin. True recall might cost Friends, income, or a life too good to lose. Analysts sometimes ask how decent Germans, Facing the sudden scarcity of Jews, Could maintain ignorance of the Holocaust; None mentions just how many we let squirm And twist at rope’s end for their predetermined, Pre-emptive wars. But then, of course, they lost.