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While we sit and celebrate
the fact Britain is good but not great*
somewhere in an Arab state
people are dying
for the sake of democracy.
Fighting the artillery
of a military
controlled by despotic tyranny,
while we sit on our hands
in safe, celebratory lands,
and wave our flags
at passing river cruises;
without caring who wins or loses
the endless sick,
battle of rhetoric.

I know, I know,
I've slipped out of your comfort zone;
away from home.
Rhetoric? you say.
Didn't we take a holiday
there, sometime in the seventies?
You, me, and the Allegro?
Wasn't it somewhere in Montenegro?
Just before the start
of the war that broke that land apart?

Despite the digression
you make a valid point.
Authoritarian aggression
puts my nose out of joint.
And on that occasion,
as now,
there was no invasion,
but inner strife and disintegration
of public order.
Fueled by government forces,
and guns passing across the border.
So while we sit at luncheon
and rely on diplomacy to function,
children lay dying,
with throats slit
from ear to ear.
With a scream
we try not to hear.
In a land
we can't hope to steer.

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from The Soundtrack to Agony, released October 19, 2012

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