On New Year's Eve, 2006, the death toll hit 3,000
I wonder if Hester threw up entirely because of the vodka
Or if she was really just sympathizing with the soldiers,
Expressing her dislike for the administration and its hopeless war?
In the morning, we cleaned up the vomit as best we could
Grandmother never noticed, never suspected we'd just covered up
The only evidence of what had occurred the year before.
So it is in our countrymen's minds,
That once our President vomits all over this nation
It is smoothed over, and new preoccupations erase the memory
Except the grass never grows again where the vomit landed
Like our boys will never return in the spring,
Leaving a yellow patch in the fabric of mothers' souls.
Though she threw up every year, no one tried to tell her
She was drinking too much; no one tried to stop her.
She had a kind of foolish brazenness some mistook
For some form of confidence or resolve.
If we're heading over a waterfall
What good will staying the course do?
I wonder what Owen would have to say about this?
."DOES THAT MEAN WAR DOESN'T NEED A REASON ANYMORE?
AT LEAST JFK HAD THE DECENCY TO DIDDLE MARILYN MONROE!"
I know that even though Hester's performing at New Year's Rockin' Eve
She'll find some way to work the vomiting into her show.
Her fans would tolerate anything.
They're a pretty representative sample of the nation.