Upright officers
trapped soldiers in trenches;
far off Generals
spent ages playing paper games
that killed so many;
pacifist historians
dreamt of generals
with absurdly bloody hands.
In times of war
we must feed our infants
with cats and dogs;
after the bombing
you can assemble fragments
as troubled tombstones.
Lateral thinking
abolish the Warfare State;
spread marmalade peace -
that's what officers
know in their bigger, better
houses back home.
