Andrea Dietrich and Dunkirk
Sure seem to be so many similarities,
Along with varieties and familiarities;
When compared,
And also shared;
Sometimes disturbed by disparities.
Do take awesome Battle of Dunkirk,
And way out everything would work;
Harvey hurricane,
Sadness remain;
Much love was there as it would lurk.
There are so many similarities between
Battle of Dunkirk, Hurricane Harvey,
Mrs. Miniver's Rose and Gwaltney
Island. All of the children had to be
removed and taken to the English
mainland. The island knew that they
would be overtaken by the Germans
during World War II. English people
went over to Dunkirk in boats. The
Battle of Normandy also reminds
me of much of this. Jim Horn
Be Sure to Buy Roundtrip Ticket
(Just in case.)
In America, we are always so spoiled
Like lavish living and nothing soiled
Never need to handle anything with care
There is always good old wash and ware.
When you want to know how things grow
For everything is an elegant TV show
If things stop working or won't connect
On line, right person you can select.
Computer even came with a cookbook
Which is where my wife seems to look;
To make sure she doesn't miss a stage
Goes ahead and prints out one more page.
Cute English people are clustered together
And why with all of that lousy weather
I too would surely start raising a fuss
To good old USA, should come along with us.
Of course, I know from their perception
For every rule their is at least one exception
In USA, people protested and started to picket
Aren't you glad you bought a round trip ticket.
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran
One more to go before I call it quits for a while.
The Arrogance of Wealth
By Elton Camp
“Dowager Countess” you must call me
Any familiarity and evil will befall ye
I am a very wealthy aristocrat
I am sure you are jealous of that
I hold a most lofty station in life
Free from mundane tasks or strife
When I speak, all present must heed
Servants fulfill my smallest need
Not the least disrespect will I allow
In my presence you are to kowtow
My superior kind of people are few
I have little use for the likes of you
English people I can barely tolerate
But Americans I most intensely hate
King, queen, duke or earl I entertain
A lowly baron outside must remain
If you do not go along with tradition
Then I shall assign you to perdition
Over Downton I once did preside
My son still there does reside
So always remember just who I am
Respectfully address me as “Ma’am”
ENGLAND
England is a changing country
Not the place I left thirty five years ago.
Oh yes, they still have Ann Hathaway’s Cottage,
And Buckingham Palace, and even fish-and-chips.
But it’s all dressed up in theme-park clothes,
And staffed by people speaking only Serbian,
Or Bengali, who don’t know what or where Big Ben is.
And don’t care what Big Ben is. Or where.
The language is almost pure American as spoken
By Schwartzenegger or Ice Cube.
The English see themselves as performing on
An imagined tv show for the benefit of paying tourists.
When I lived there English people knew what they stood for,
And today they will stand for anything. You could be standing
In Melbourne, or Akron, or London
The music, food, manners, hopes, beliefs are all the same.
I am the first of many
The lucky one with out any
People standing before me
Being early is the key
So please don't stand in front of me
Can't you see where you should be
Each in turn must join the line
At the back, you'll be just fine
I really can't abide
watching you decide
If pushing to the front's for you
I start to wonder what you'll do
I start to think what I'll do to
If pushing to the front's for you
Perhaps I'll stand, then rave and rant
But English people find they can't
The bus, the tram or supermarket
Take your bum and slowly park it
At the back and you will find
That's the place where no one minds
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