were shattered by World War One, the War to End All War,
which was started by Germans, but US won, yet 20 years
later we were having more of the same, only worse by the end

Now a new millennium, and another hundred years down
the road of humanity, and we must be grateful there are
no new Hitler or Mussolini spin-offs running their mouth
to excite the greedy and the needy to their own purpose
with many promises they’ll never keep.


As Frank Zappa used to say,
“It can’t happen here…”