john mcleish Poems

over palms
choppers come
blades keep beat
like poonding drum
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under Christ's banner
they march aff te war
infected, we' patriotic fever
blinded, by propaganda
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under European unity
Roman Catholic, supremacy
the Fourth Reich, finally
abolishes the protestant monarchy
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phosphorus, napalm
'let's burn 'em alive'
anyway, history's written
by those wha survive
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bombs, bodies, blood
prime time television
flick through the channels, bud
and indulge yur short span o attention
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Doc Martens on the beach
surfer punks rule, O.K
roond bonfire, drink and fight
come morn', ride waves a' day
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Bra' Scots poet
Burn's Boys Club
Rabbie was original
and you are, not
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Deeper and deeper
in te mind, I dive
te the depths o despair
my sel', I find
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Desert Rifles
and moontain range peaks
red earth, stretches on forever
mirage, dances in heat
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Super Tanker
in Hurricane 5
o'er bow, waves
fifty feet high
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