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
Copyright © Ahellas Alixopulos | Year Posted 2016
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