Advice to the Prime Idiot
by John Hartley Williams
[ poetry - august 06 ]
Once you start bombing
it's important
to keep bombing
in case folks
start expecting
not to be bombed
any more.
Not being bombed
is not on.
The point of bombing
is that you keep doing it
till nothing's left.
It's simply unfair
to give people
unreasonable hope!
Remember, it's always
more humanitarian
to kill people
than to give them
unreasonable hope.
Bombing pauses
are senseless
if you plan
to start bombing again.
People go out in the sunshine
and think
'It's great to be alive'.
Suppose you had
a bombing pause
to feed the people.
Then you'd have to
pause the feeding
to bomb them.
This doesn't make
logistical sense.
Pauses for prayer are OK.
Folk that pray together
can be bombed together.
But wash your hands first.
Or remove your shoes.
Avoid milk, pork,
and impure thoughts.
It's important
not to give offence.
Ah, those craters
in place of airports,
hospitals and breakfasts!
Here's a big shed.
Now there's a no shed!
One's appreciation of holes
is enlarged.
How selective and elitist
it would be TO AIM!
Dropping bombs
is the fairest way.
You bomb the lot.
It's a socialist solution.
But I see a problem.
Who will you bomb
when this lot's flattened?
We need holes closer
to home to admire.
Why not bomb yourself?
England, I mean.
Your people are behind you.
They'd follow you anywhere.
But they do lack
your lion-like courage.
Show them what you're made of!
What are you waiting for?
They're not really socialists.
They don't even like you.
They think you're an idiot.
But you're a bomber, aren't you?
Bombs away!
