Choices

[Mairead]

Would you rather have health insurance
you can actually afford, or occupy Iraq?
Would you rather have enough inspectors
to keep your kids from getting poisoned
by bad hamburgers, or occupy Iraq?

Suppose some peddler offered:
You can have a color tv
but your baby will be born with a crooked spine.
You can have polyvinyl cups and wash and wear suits
but it will cost you your left lung
rotted with cancer.
Suppose somebody offered you
a frozen precooked dinner every night for 10 years
but at the end your colon dies
and then you do
slowly and with much pain.

--Marge Piercy