Christmas Holiday

davel
1 min readNov 10, 2022

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Otto Dix, Assault Troops Advance under Gas (Sturmtruppe geht unter Gas vor) 1924 © DACS 2017. Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/lists/five-things-know-otto-dix

There are no poppies here

on the Western front,

Those flowers

only grow

on freshly broken ground.

We only need their image for our stunts

Here

the blithe British spirit

will once more abound

bursting forth like a charge of 10 million

khaki cunts.

The poppies will no longer grow,

their first spring

was sadly from a time before.

So if we can’t have them back

sprouting between graves, rows by rows,

then we’ll just have to grow some more.

If you liked World War 2

and it’s prequel

Maybe you’d be interested in a sequel?

Our gunmakers have engaged in great exchange

so we won’t even need to deploy our troops.

The eagle now flies a wider range,

which we can control from our coop.

Somewhere lady liberty is lost,

we need to find her,

so we’ll send more lads into the meat grinder.

Red poppies run

in order to remind us

life outside of war

should never be fun.

There are enemies waiting out there

to harm us

And we cannot stop until the battles won.

And good for us

the battle’s never won.

War, in the pure sense,

is never done.

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