Anvil Cocktails for All

Anvil Cocktails for All

by Pete Leki [ (click to hear the poem read by the author) mp3 download]http://www.beyondtoday.org/pesticide/anvilcocktail.MP3

It's Summer in the City And the crickets sing at night The jets roar in the wispy clouds But things just don't seem right… without some…

Anvil whining down the block Just as we sit down for dinner Whoever got that Anvil contract Sure turned out a winner

We get Anvil on our salsa All up in our posole Anvil on our pollo Quesadillas, guacamole

Anvil on the kiddies On Darwin, Zach and Ella Anvil on the popsicles And on that homeless fella

Anvil sprayed on grannies And on the pregnant ladies On birds and dogs and dragonflies On daddies pushing babies

Anvil at the cafes On your pesto and risotta Anvil in your fine Merlot And in your mineral water

"Don't worry. It won't hurt you." The Public Health guys say "And if you do get cancer That will be years away

You can't blame it on the Anvil Not with the toxic air You're breathing in this City There's already poison there:

Lead, asbestos, ozone, Diesel fumes and soot Mercury and arsenic Is it so bad to put

A little bit on Anvil Into the toxic bile? At least we're doing something To try to stop West Nile.

We need to show we're active Like going off to war Even tho the enemy Is as toxic as the cure."

So bring it on, don't fear it. Spray all over me, I'm sure that it is harmless Like Raid and DDT.