Axis & Allies - damowords

American Opinion
Rita clocks off another working day
Making deadly acroutements of war
Collected her ever increasing pay
Then nipp’d for quick whiskey at Hank’s Bar;
Conversation
Deepens at the refill,
“I did not raise my son just to die for Churchill!”
I fought,” said Hank, “In Flanders’ mire
Back in Nineteen Seventeen,
Pull’d Britain’s chestnust from the fire
In scenes like ya never seen,
Just so that lousy old empire
Remain’d our global queen!”
A tear slipp’d from the corner of his eye,
“Y’know I saw a lot of good men die.”
She drain’d the glass, gush’d from her core,
“God bless America!”
Walk’d through the door to Ned’s new store
To buy a newspaper –
Its front page once more dominated by Mister Hitler!
Jerkwater
December 6 th
Pearl Harbour
Solʹs fiery portal rose from silken sea,
A fleet illumed thro mellow morning mist,
Upon the flat‐top of the Akagi
Yamamoto crushʹd pearl in shaking fist;
The airwaves fill,
ʺTora‐tora‐tora!ʺ
Streaming in for the kill, screaming ʺThe Emperor!ʺ
They dived down to Battleship Row
As Samurai steeds charging,
Twin‐streakʹd a speeding torpedo,
Dropping bombs from whizzing wing
& how spectacular the show,
Noble ships exploding,
Day of Lusitanian proportions,
Echoes resounding round the worldʹs oceans.
“KERWHOOM!” The West Virginia
Joins the sunken others,
Oklahama, Arizona –
But not the carriers –
Thro chance or fate, steaming at sea, on winter manouveres!
Hawaii
8.15 AM