Life During Wartime

...an homage to Talking Heads and their song with the same title. ******** Gunfire and grave sites pepper the hillsides, trucks with ammo taking position. We have visas, fake I.D.s besides, men in disguise infiltrate battle lines. Heard about Houston, heard about Detroit, heard about Pittsburgh PA? fierce conflagrations abroad on the air, eyes blinded 'til we can barely see, the sky is thick with startled sparrows. Will we ever see the end, so much more of the same,can we no longer see around the bend, must we continue to murder and maim? The world's gone haywire, mistrusting our brother, lusting after one another, we're tapping phone lines running road blocks, this ain't no party, manipulating computers, a sign of the times.