Ordinarily, I don't give much time
to political discourse,
but something came across my desk
that at first I took as farce.
E-mailed by a friend who often
sends a joke or two to share,
but this differed much from the other stuff
in its tendency to scare.

I really thought it was in jest:
this could never be for real.
The whole idea was too absurd;
it had comedy appeal.
But I wondered if so many stiffs
could happen on their own,
as I read the stats there portrayed as facts
that were not so widely known.

Of FATAL FRIENDS & FATTENING FOE,
should I believe what I am hearing
of suicides and accidents,
of people disappearing?
Of FATAL FRIENDS & FATTENING FOE,
it's scary just to think
that all these deaths have a common strand,
one very deadly link.

Some victims were of high esteem,
while some others were not such.
And some were called to testify;
maybe someone knew too much.
I don't usually see conspiracies
in everything that moves,
but a second look for what's overlooked
may provide something to prove.

A decapitated witness
was said to have naturally died.
A gunshot wound to the back of the head
was ruled a suicide.
Eleven other people's fates
were likewise ruled the same.
And two kids were found all over the ground
after "sleeping" beneath a train.

CHORUS

A dozen bodyguards are dead
of causes unexplained.
Ten people murdered, three crashed in cars
and five more crashed in planes.
If coincidence or just bad luck,
close to fifty dead or killed,
but it seems a great mortality rate
just to be a Friend of Bill.

If the country's chase of a sexual case
can nearly crush an administration,
maybe we should bring all of this whole thing
to further investigation.
But then, who is free (besides you & me)
of a prejudicial view ?
Who knows what we'd find
if we searched inside
the misdeeds of George W. ?