A Cold Coming

I have to say that this poem was a very strange poem. I'm not sure what the reading was even about. I did notice as I was trying to read the story that there was a few words I didn't understand, charred and Plasticine. I want to say that Plasticine is just a fancy word for plastic, but I'm not sure. I also wondered why the author put the words record, gotcha, sun, rewind, and play in all caps? But the part that confused me the most was why did the author compare the whole Iraqi nation to sperm? I guess what the author was trying to say was that a bunch of sperm get released, but in the end, a bunch of them don't make it to the egg...? I guess!?