Bush and Blair
Confer About Iraq
(Rendered in the style of the Epitaph of Gray’s
“Elegy in a Country Churchyard”)
The Epitath
Here meets a pair of statesmen wannabes
Who sought a way to cut the Mideast knot;
Their aim—from posts of power tyrants squeeze,
Bring freedom to replace the local rot.
Long they planned, and prayed hard to their heaven
For a cause that would their war empower;
Until the Pit bequeathed them 9/11,
Allowing shock and awe to finally flower.
Three long years on, the plotters now confer,
Again to gloss the foolish game they’ve lost;
While watchers round the world would just prefer,
To see these bunglers from their jobs get tossed.
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