Best Parodymen Poems
I would like to preface this poem by saying that one of the most insidious atrocities of war is
that older men (and women) send young men (and women) out to die! If all young people
refused to fight we would put an end to war. Wishful thinking I know………………….
I don’t know but I've been told!
New recruits are young and bold!
We’ll take them in and shave their heads!
So they’ll all look the same when they are dead!
Don’t be shy!
Join and die!
We’ll give each one of them a gun!
So they can kill and have some fun!
Their mom’s and dad’s are safe at home!
We can leave them all to grieve alone!
Say goodbye!
End is nigh!
Foreign lands are killing fields!
We kill and kill, we kill for greed!
Industry’s what makes us free!
The war machine’s about money!
My, oh my!
What a high!
We love new boys ‘cos they are fools!
We train them in our killing schools!
The poorest ones in body bags!
On their toes we’ll hang those tags!
It ain’t no lie!
Men must die!
Young men die so the rich can see!
Financial possibility!
Riches mount in piles so high!
When ordinance falls from the sky!
My, oh my!
What a high!
Come on fat-cats lets have some fun!
While our boys are killing everyone!
Who cares about the casualties!
We’ll tell them it’s to make them free!
That is why!
Our boy's die!