Kit Kelen #1029 - barely veiled

1029

barely veiled

(approaching an armistice)

day of no applause

and say we hate war

best we forget

lest we

drink ourselves away once

for king and country was

he was a white man

they were so white

we are the winning world

at it again

up until now we have won

addicted to it

deafening our no applause

whitest of the white we are

and now we come in every colour

a party for our losses

was always bound to be grim

we are the blameless living

ours are the blameless dead

some fool general sent them

not a party

it’s a wake

we’re the funeral

we are ever more

the market climbs and falls

and claws on out of the trench

millions dead from our coal each year

that was our idea

sing

long to reign over us

we just follow orders

lest we forget

we are the unbroken

we are the links in that chain

who took the land

with a no-fault policy

we went there to win

how sweetly these our birds sing

how curious the fauna

a sacred thing we are

we didn’t come here to think