Written by Lynn White
Genocide Joe
is strutting
his stuff
getting ready
to deliver
for Christmas.
Santa came early
to the north, as he does
and now his sack’s laden
and he’s moving south
playing toy soldiers
with real missiles and bombs.
For children alone
and families fleeing terror
the bombs make a carpet
of what once were homes.
The tanks crush out lives
there’s nowhere to go,
nowhere to hide
for the starved
and the maimed
they’ll remember this Christmas
from Genocide Joe.
Armed to the gums
their neighbours afraid
helpless and hating
and hate breeding hate
and more hate breeds power
for the fear of today is the might of tomorrow.
Some history is made by these Santas of War
and more history is made by new Masters of War
and both the living and dead will judge Genocide Joe.
Text © Lynn White
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