Send the gangsters,
the murderers, rapists,
the terrorists, the child molesters,
the ones with more than their fair share of piss and vinegar.
Send the bad attitudes and the free-loaders.
Send the ones that want to die with their boots on.
Send the experienced ones.
A few good men,
the Dirty Harry’s the Brave Heart’s
the Rambo’s and
the Rock’s, the ones
with the snot-free noses.
The ones that know-how
and won’t think twice
to fuck you up.
Send the salty, the psycho
and the drug lords, permanently stoned
on their last leg.
Send the ones who want
to leave this earth making
a statement, leaving their mark
their sweat
their blood.
Send Them!
Let’s leave our youth alone
and their wives and children
with their minds and their bodies intact.
Leave them to care for this country
to bring us back to sanity
to give us hope
to revive our economy
to renew our faith in humanity.
Let’s harness those hormones to rebuild our bridges and dams,
to patrol our borders, and to forge new alliances
without any preconceived ideas of what they can and cannot do.
Let’s sit down and think about how we treat each other.
Reassess wants and needs.
How we teach our children.
Let’s take a lesson from history
and send the Neanderthal to fight the age-old feuds,
leave our kids to save the planet
and send the apes– the missing links.
Send Them!
Corney Press 