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The Tony Blair Which Project (Free verse) by wilco
On the subject of war and nothing else,
planes and bombs curry favor
with friends in the lowest of places.
They're not your sons and daughters.
They were given to the queen of hearts
by the king on the white plantation.
Creeping along the fences of the gutters
where the rats ride the waters
and carry the disease of war to sea.
A thousand heads in a green gunny sack,
carried by the corpses of fathers
because the mother-fuckers weren't enough.
But let's not worry about these things for now.
We'll count the bodies on Tuesday after tea,
when the people grow weary of the evening news.
Pass out the crack and automatic guns,
so everyone will be armed and ready to fight.
Because if you're going to kill people,
You may as well do it right.
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