The Warwick Poet Anthony James Leahy

Black Watch
To fight for Queen and Country 
may not be so bad a reason for enlisting…
it may be as good an ideal as any 
to protect one’s own so to speak. 
To join the army for a job of work 
or to earn a crust to feed ones family 
is more likely how it is and it is a living 
after all now isn’t it? Wasn’t it? 
Though that may well be a tad presumptuous  
So what the fuck is Iraq all about then anyway eh?  
If we (a collective here) are gonna fight the “terrorist” 
neigh the organised bogyman illusionists
Surely they are more likely to be found 
to reside in the corridors of the White House 
and rooms in the Downing Street blocks…
and a few tents or caves dotted around the middle east
What ever the reason for taking the Queens Shilling 
it sure as hell wasn’t to act as fucking mercenaries 
for the fucking oil barons now was it?…
Fuck the Neo-Cons and the Jesus and Muslim freak 
fundamentalists and god (figure of speech) bless 
the forty seven percent as well as the disenfranchised 
plus some of the majority…well most of them really 
and lets not forget the starving kids in Africa 
(the ones where Shell and Texaco haven’t been yet)
for they know not what they do…forgive them father.
Well it is difficult to be able to see beyond lies now isn’t it?
(how patronizing I think I’ll take the hump here)
and let’s put the new world order rule makers 
with their “lies are ok if the end result is achieved” motto
the means can always be justified with a little spin at the end 
and the help of a good add campaign 
and a little patriot character assassination
thrown in  for good measure for  their like minded 
control the masses blow themselves to martyrdom 
“Allah is Great” and “God On Their Side” killers 
and let them fuck each other’s brains out 
and maybe then the world will be a safer place for rest of us.
We could even rid the planet of weapons of mass destruction
After all we all know where they are… don’t we?