OpinioNet Contributed Commentary

Date - June 3, 2001
Author - Steven Plaut

A Poem about the Peace Process

Now that Ariel Sharon is at last searching for an appropriate response to our peace partners and even some Israeli media are at last desisting from their congenital Peace Partner Spam, we thought we would conscript Dr. Seuss to help the Sheriff of Oslo, Mister Unilateral Ceasefire, to think of an appropriate response to the PLO. Here is the result:

Peace Partner Spam, by Dr. Seuss

We can shoot them

here or there!



We should shoot them

anywhere!



Would you shoot them in a house?

Would you shoot them with a mouse?



I like to shoot them

in a house.

I like to shoot them

with a mouse.

I do not like them

here or there.

I do not like them

anywhere.

I do not like

peace partner spam.

I do not like it,

Sam-I-am.



Would you shoot them

in a box?

Would you shoot them

with a fox?



Yes in a box.

or with a fox.

or in a house.

or with a mouse.

We shall shoot them

here or there.

We shall shoot them anywhere.

We shall dump peace partner spam.

I do not like it, Sam-I-am.



Strafe them! Strafe them! Here they are.



We shoot them, bomb them, in a car.



You may like it. You will see.

You may shoot them in a tree!



We shoot em, strafe em, in a tree.

And in a car! Don’t let them be.



I do not like them in a box.

I do not like them with a fox.

I do not like them in a house.

I do not like them with a mouse.

I do not like them here or there.

I do not like them anywhere.

I do not like peace partner spam.

I do not like it, Sam-I-am.



A train! A train!

A train! A train!

Could you, would you,

on a train?



Yep in a train! Or in a tree!

Or in a car! Don’t let them be!



We will not spare them in the rain.

We will not spare them on a train.

Not in the dark! Not in a tree!

Not in a car! Don’t let them be!

I do not like them in a box.

I do not like them with a fox.

I will not eat them in a house.

I do not like them with a mouse.

I do not like them here or there.

I do not like them ANYWHERE!



I do not like peace partner spam!

I do not like them, Sam-I-am.


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