Holy Innocents
(in the voice of the terrorists)

You call us cowards?
Compared to whom,
B-52 crews carpet bombing villages?

When you stopped food and medicine,
we watched as half a million Iraqi kids died.
We don't hate you for that.
We admire power.

So when we turn passenger planes
into stealth bombers
we deserve your respect.
But now, at least, we have your attention.

Let's make a friendly bet:
who can kill the most innocents per killer?
Consider the odds.
With just hundreds we kill thousands.
It takes millions of you to kill our hundreds.
Millions? Yes, add it up.
Your paid killers,
(oh, excuse us, your military)
plus your tax paying citizens,
complicit killers in the hundreds of millions.
Complicit? Of course.
You are a democracy, aren't you?

When the contest ends,
when we both run out of innocents,
we can shake hands and
acknowledge one another,
brothers in killings,
devotees of Mars,
worshiping at our common altar.