Ode To Joe

Ode To Joe

By Lord R.e. Taylor

You lived a long life

Have done so much

But you have a history

Four dead in your first life

Thirteen dead in your second

Did you care about them

Do you care about anything

Surely not about the hundreds left behind

I guess they never mattered

They were all just Americans

The people you swore to protect

The people who gave you your job

And the people who will remember

So, see if you have the job when they get angry

Maybe you will care about that

Dedicated to the memory of

all those lost in Afghanistan and Benghazi

© Poem – IX/IV/MMXXI