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Mind the Bollocks!

(on video obtained by British newspaper, News of the World)

Now that the telltale footage is released,
The Ministry of Defence investigates
How British blokes in Basra, South Iraq,
Those bov/ver boys with all their soldier mates,

Beat children senseless with headbuts and batons.
"42 Brainless Blows," the banner reads,
Not a description of what Blair gave Bush,
But Britain's barrage of braindead misdeeds.

One's sense of fair play says it isn't cricket
Kicking Iraqis lying on the ground,
And we're all confident the MoD
Will see to it that scapegoats shall be found,

But not in Downing Street, that viper's nest
Bound in with shame. There lies the rotten root.
And since the hobnails scar at Blair's behest,
It's time the bloody bastard got the boot!

February 2006

 


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Please direct any requests for publication, in whatever form or medium, to the author, Ian Reed, at tango_poet@hotmail.com (212) 841-0341.