Churchill: Taken From
The Diaries of Lord Moran,
pg. 386 — “We had hardly
taken our seats when the
P.M. said without warning:
‘What other nation in history,
when it became supremely powerful,
has had no thoughts of territorial
aggrandizement, no ambition but to
use its resources for the good of
the world? I marvel at America’s
altruism, her sublime
disinterestedness.’
All at once I realized Winston
was in tears, his eyes were red,
his voice faltered. He was deeply
moved. Sulzberger broke the silence.”
andy i love you
i’m flying the flag
for the first time since
i flew it upside down on
my bedroom wall and slept
with it for years at my head
in this one i’m the odd duck
i had a rock fight kids of
seven nations against ten
arab kids in the desert in
dhahran got a bloody head and
then we made up
the bloody-headed leader gave
me a slice of fruit i’ve still
never seen again and
then we hung out
the british kids though
torture us
told me that usa sucked
they snarled and bullied and
they were big they said:
“we let you win and we could
take it back anytime ya
bleedin’ little poof.”
and they tried
i have pictures stored in me
from my life that say:
fifty one percent are pretty
good though they eat the flesh
of screaming slaughtered animals
torturing their young for taste
mmmmmmmmmmmm smack “can’t not do it!”
and fourty nine percent are pretty
bad including the flesh eaters and the
also the terribly bad-informed
and dominators of women children
and animals (“but he likes it! See?”)
So I Vote
‘n I found out that I loved
ol’ Bill Clinton
n’ Al too thought I’d never
see anything like them in my lifetime
by god they made the hard right froth
at the mouth and that oughta get
you good credit right there with me
Now Reagan rot and be damned
Bush overthrew America already
and i now believe
that I intend to take
back the American Flag
in the holy name
of Abbie Hoffman
for the goodies and the trulys
the shabbies and the the
reasonably well-informed
guitar-pickin’ pot smokin’
van-dwellers of the world
embrace and make peace with
my arabic brothers
and smash the living
hell out of the
bloody beastial british
who stabbed our boys in the
back at the Battle of
New York and had
their way with the helpless
women and children
i swear to god they
will be avenged with my blood
i shall make a flag from it
and fly it over the ashes
of London Town.
This is my dream.