#1172 - ‘a greater ability to project’

 

1172

18.iii.23

4.77

‘a greater ability to project’

 

let’s think about the killing things

big shiny

 

talk about it too

so much money spent

 

we must all protect ourselves

o they as well of course

 

and we, together, the two wrongs

each up against

 

dig a trench

of dark imagining

 

bombs, bullets black the sky

 

send drones, safe for us

send theirs

not so

 

desk spreads out like a map

touch this

 

aim and fire

kill kill

 

or be killed

that’s our why

 

and hearts switched off

 

feel the threat and revel

buy more

before

it’s all too late

 

will you foresee the desolation?

 

will they wait

till sporting ready

for the firing shot

 

the price of liberty goes up

the homeless cringe cold, hungry

we must protect

 

khaki up with

one day there will be an election

 

but not for them

oh no

 

tyrant we’ll wipe, we will

with

 

a greater ability to project

 

with a spitball biro

play battleships

paper aeroplanes

and how far can you?

 

death is what we mean

 

they say the world is this way up

 

big big numbers

long long way

 

and all of this is just to kill

 

what will we pay for peace?