Axis & Allies - damowords

JFK
As the all‐American democrat
Sat gently on the presidential throne
The world, it seemʹd, was free from, ʹAll of that!ʹ
Those new tensions of the nuclear dawn;
How high hopes grew
When crimson‐cheekʹd Russia
Missile silos withdrew from communist Cuba.
Alas this world is like the mind
Bears unveiling iceberg tips,
When the cruel cabalistic kind
Holds our fate upon their lips
& global forces in a bind
That never, ever slips ‐
For this is the way of the world my friend
A sham to pay their daily dividend.
Thus when that peaceful president
From Vietnam did sway
Assasins sent, angers to vent,
None shall stand in their way,
& everyone remembers where they were upon that day.
Dallas
1963
Saddam Hussein
Iraq, old lynchpin of the Arab sphere,
Black nectar by oil‐global barons sought,
Importance of thy kudos rising clear,
The CIA lend sacchirine support;
The Communist
Courts the Prime Minister ‐
Like some malignant cyst arrives his young slayer.
A man of violent thought & vain,
Betannʹd as the devlish Moor,
Has come to end his leaders reign,
Steps thro the rubicon dooor
Aimʹd pistol at his victims brain,
But then the aim was poor
So turnʹd & fled into the eastern night,
Uprescued by a secret service flight.
As climate changes with timeʹs span
The migrant may return,
No common man, his simple plan
Awaits the fateful turn,
To join the Baʹathist party & the presidency earn.
Baghdad
1963