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April 10, 2007
Next year we are to bring the soldiers home
HOMAGE TO A GOVERNMENT
by Philip Larkin (1969)
Next year we are to bring the soldiers home
For lack of money, and it is all right.
Places they guarded, or kept orderly,
Must guard themselves, and keep themselves orderly.
We want the money for ourselves at home
Instead of working. And this is all right.
It's hard to say who wanted it to happen,
But now it's been decided nobody minds.
The places are a long way off, not here,
Which is all right, and from what we hear
The soldiers there only made trouble happen.
Next year we shall be easier in our minds,
Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
The statues will be standing in the same
Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same.
Our children will not know it's a different country.
All we can hope to leave them now is money.
Judith | 04/10/07 at 12:55 AM | Categories: - Iran
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Yedudit:
It won't happen. You don't let the Devil live, in American politics, and expect to win elections. The only reason it worked in Larkin's time was that Mr. "You Are There" had a monopoly, and no one could point out the Emperor's nakedness.
And we ain't there anymore.
We're the difference.
--Scott
Demosophist | April 10, 2007 08:18 PM
