RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: LATIN AMERICA
Wag the Dog (Venezuela)
What do presidents do
When the bottom drops out?
When they’ve already lost one shoe
And there’s little left but doubt?
They start a war with paper tiger
Someone that doesn’t have a chance
Someone who will not push it higher
But will show up for the dance
It seems Maduro fits the bill
He’s well known as a bad guy
If we don’t get him someone will
We’ll frame him with a lie
Just like we did in Vietnam
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
We don’t really give a damn
But we’ll make it a solution
The problem is it never works
The people will strike back
The invaders are always seen as jerks
When a foreign force attacks
It didn’t work in Vietnam
In Afghanistan or Iraq
The people sense a phony scam
Like a rabbit smells a hawk
