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The Passion of the Oil

I wrote this poem back in 2004, as the U.S. could not find any weapon of mass destruction in Iraq. The Oil The Call The Oil The Thirst Blood Runs First Oil For Goal The Oil The Gush The Oil The Light Blood Runs Bright Oil For Us The Oily Church Claims In Juice we Trust And Oil Is Our New Mantra Bring Grief To Them Iraq we'll Crush And Oil Bless America Rating to be advised Coming soon at a gas station near you

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Date: 1/14/2018 7:07:00 AM

Great poem. Can I please have your permission to post it on a closed oil related facebook group ? Kind regards Philip

Alain Boucher
Date: 9/2/2018 4:58:00 PM

yes (better late than never)

Darren White

Date: 5/12/2017 6:22:00 AM

Wow.... this sonnet has so few words, yet says so much and is so powerful and true. Fantastic poem. And Anne-Marie is right... please write some more :)

Anne-Marie Coreggia

Date: 4/20/2017 3:45:00 PM

My friend Kay and I think that you brilliantly know how to put the nail on the head in a simple and powerful way and that your humor heightens it all . . . so we are asking for more Alain:) Amitiés PS: pas besoin de répondre, écris simplement un autre poème.

Anne-Marie Coreggia

Date: 4/1/2017 11:31:00 AM

Alain, you punctuated a brief but powerful,clever, tragic and funny poem with four words that remind us of the too often greedy and power motivated nature of men. By the way, loved the 'rating' lines added. Very well done:) Amitiés

Constance La France

Date: 3/23/2017 8:42:00 AM

Alain, your poem touched me deeply, beneath the words of this poem is death, well done and welcome to poetry soup ~

Alain Boucher
Date: 3/25/2017 6:25:00 PM

Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, nothing has really changed, and one way or another the U.S. is responsible for 9 out of 10 death in the Middle-East as well as the invasion of Europe b y refugees. Kill, divide and conquer at the power 10.