CAMP RELUCTANCE

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don't mention the war

only the elephants in the news

they’re politely ignored by this G

7 while Japan their neighbour scores

tickets for free

Russian mammoths couldn’t crash them gates

Asian quadrupeds from Singapore

to the Arctic Circle tigers all

African states

jumbo nations makes no odds you’re pink

white & circus trained or just forget

it’s the colour of your money nods

winks to a deaf

horse the ring of course is televised

nothing Trojan mind the token Greeks

here with buckets & spades for a week

at the seaside

party games some grub & jungle juice

donkey rides across the sands at low

tide just hope no cockle diggers show

up on the loose

Greenswill

Lex von Greenswill got the job of bag

man at Adolf’s favourite skulking hole

where on Tuesday nights he’d leave the owl

feller his pile

when the conflict ended no one gave

Lex his marching orders on he went

serving up illicit scratch my green

backs as before

US forces Russian submarine

crews the Royal Horse Artillery

OTAN plus United Nations friends

gendarmes du monde

all the gang & then some dipped their snouts

where the Führer got his ya-yas out

down the banks you’d think their greasy plot

rumbled & yet

here we go again the crooked bonds

private jets & dodgy msgs

next up Doctor Goebbels recommends

Covid 19

Camp Reluctance

information please

where the hell we coming from

give it to me straight

be it horse’s mouth

other end or in between

who we talking of

as the prodigals

asked before their parents’ wake

what’s the bottom line

why’s the music gone

someone turn my channel back

on for pity’s sake

this is how it starts

people asking questions like

me the only one

which will do for now

campsite’s turning into view

whose owl bunk is mine

not to miss!