War Sonnet

"Brink of War", the press proclaims in grand exuberance cause it will know there will be work for months naming names and the gory details of friend and foe. You may notice that the Dow Jones which has been in the dumpster, with great joy arises. Investors know without a hitch which stocks of war will be the ones to buy. Of course young people, poor and of color will join the army, marines and navy, to escape street, family, lay-offs or surviving desperate moments hardly found in new patriotism, or think sacrifice saves old men from fiscal brink