Poem #4

In General
By James Bezerra

You know,
MacArthur nearly invaded Russia
singlehandedly, but Truman
said, “Fuck no!”
McChrystal mouthed off to seem cool
and Obama said,
“Perhaps not.”

You know,
Grant was a drunk
and Ike an adulterer
and let’s not forget
that Washington came from
aristocratic English stock.

Sure,
Powell waged the cleanest war on the books,
but even he was brought
low by
the Bush.
And Petraeus can face down any enemy
- it seems -
but even he,
passes out on the House floor (WTF was that about?).

In general,
it seems that all our generals
are just
men.

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