The War Report

from Sturdy Little Men by The Admiral's Boy

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The War Report

What with all the technology,
all those wires connecting the tubes to the machines
and the airwaves full to bursting with frequencies,
it all seemed like utopia.

One could have anything one wanted
and so we did.
We wanted and wanted.
But a problem soon arose,
not enough to go around,
and there were casualties littering the streets,
streets teeming with shoppers.
They begged and they smelled so strong.
What were they eating?

You know with a little bit of grooming
you could probably get a job
and not have to beg.

Yes that might be possible
but I don't want to be a slave at the bottom of your pile.

Why is this happening?
I can't find any decent slaves any more!
I will have to go offshore to lands more amenable
societies more integrated
where they understand the meaning of a dollar.
So hard to stretch that dollar
not the same elasticity as once was expected and attained.
The stretching dollar, elasticity at its finest.
What about the Yen and the Kroner and the Pound.

The Pound Sterling now there was a currency my brother,
a currency you could depend on
backed by Men of War, cannons at the ready.
Those Red Coats,
they knew how to
form a square,
they wouldn't cut and run,
fighting down to the last man,
against any and all comers,
the little brown bellies with bones in their noses and their machetes,
muskets firing, oh the smell of Saltpeter.

You built an empire
on the backs of the sturdy little men who farmed at home
and fought wherever you sent them.

Howard Beye 2008

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from Sturdy Little Men, released October 31, 2013

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