What no one to this day
has put pen to paper
to state as argument
However misguided
against apparent facts
is the obvious case
As anyone can see
if they know history
the whole reason we fought
The first of two world wars
was a little known fact
that The Times made present
Notably in the press
the twenty-ninth of June
Nineteen Hundred Fourteen
On the day after shots
rang out around the world
as a death knell bell tolls
Only in remembrance
for Patrick James Foley
of Sligo, Ireland
Not for Franz und Sophie
murdered on the same day
Patrick James broke a vase
Entering Nirvana
or as in his own case
Heaven or so we're taught
To believe after death
we meet with Saint Peter
and have a round of drinks
Over cocktails and lunch
at The Pearly Gates Bar
and take swigs of poitín
To celebrate our lives
or dance with the Devil
at The Jolly-Good Bowl
Hell being an alley
where we all bowl ten-pin
get drunk on dirt-cheap bland
Insipid uninspired
watered-down piss-water
never bowl strikes or cheer
Sober alcoholics
go to The Limbo School
of drunken jigs and reels
Dance steps for sloppy drunks
lonesome housewives and bored
riddle solvers The Sphinx
Asks to answer puzzles
enigmas or questions
never distinct or clear
Yesterday her hunger
ravenous as a beast
rocked Death back on his heels
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