Telling Lies
Listen! ‘Tell
me lies about Vietnam’*
And Suez,
Korea, Afghanistan,
Libya,
Syria, Iraq, Iran…
War’s the
very worst deliberate scam,
Always a
gross act of misdirection,
By which the
misdirected lend consent
To their
leaders’ malevolent intent:
All, of
course, for the good of the nation.
What does
victory look like? Much the same
As defeat!
Inspired by cupidity,
Or even
hubristic stupidity.
To the Lords
of Misrule it’s still the Great Game.
The news
will be encouraging no doubt;
Appear
bare-faced, ‘tell me lies about…’*
D.A.
*From: 'To Whom It May Concern'
Adrian Mitchell (1968)
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