Is This Art ?

They took me to the battlefield 
Saw the mushroom clouds 
Said 'I can see the colours 
Even when my head is bowed' 
And they showed me the destruction 
The slaughter a la carte 
And isn't nature wonderful 
But is this art? 

They took me to the hospital 
And pulled aside the sheet 
Said 'Look at that pulsating. 
Just listen to the beat' 
And they showed me the incision 
Then took away the heart 
And isn't nature wonderful 
But is this art? 

They took me to the scientist, 
Who opened up a phial 
He said 'This is only chicken pox 
And rhino bile' 
And they showed me what it did to mice 
They said 'This is just the start' 
And isn't nature wonderful 
But is this art? 

They took me to the tenement 
And kicked down the door 
They said:'Have you seen the copulation,
Practised by the poor 
We select the ones to breed 
Then we reject the part' 
And isn't nature wonderful 
But is this art?