A general came and talked at our church
today, he said, look, let’s make
a deal, we’ve always worked so well
together in the past and there’s no reason
why if we just put our heads together
we can’t lick this thing, we can get this
monkey off our backs and make everything
honkey dorey again. We gave him a cup
of tea which he sucked through his teeth,
we said what you haven’t noticed is that
there’s a For Sale sign outside and we’re
leaving for India at the end of the month,
but there will be one last dance and
a minstrel show just for old time’s sake.