Kit Kelen #476 - the nation trick again

476

the nation trick again

Anzac Day, 2017

wrapped in a flag

and all salute

some colour of the skin

not random

the nation trick

as empires conjure

as cash is raked

can't a white man say

we all Sisyphus salute

house on the hill

we're out of the trenches

to climb

but I won't make it

and neither will you

we're wrapped in a flag

so a corpse will sing

we're only following orders

who's up there shining

better than the ones

who'd do it all away?

the soldier's unknown

it's the nation trick

and do it again

here because we're here

mud made us

dig until there's gold

there have been things

worth dying for

but are there still today?