(In the background, this song, threnodically:
An fo’ye l’oju/ An min Janduku j’oye/ An fo’ye l’oju*)
I’ve just dropped the Mother of All Bombs
On some distant land of hills and caves
Gave the talkative Press a fiery fray
To divert their hunt from my Russian ruse
A few days before, I fired humanitarian missiles
Into the seething theatre of the Syrian blaze
It is a Super-Power device, prim ‘n proper
To use a massive fire to spread the little ones
My heart broke into pieces when I saw those kids
Twisting and jerking from an overdose of gas
I wept and wept till I filled a bucket
Though I decreed a ban which excluded their kind
And now my Armada swarms to the China Sea
Monstrous, massive, majestically murderous
The famed Spanish Fleet was a platoon of minnows
Beside these sharks with their teeth of fire
Nights of fire, skies of flame
Behold the lethal beauty of exploding ordinance
The masterly Mohawk and its mindless mayhem
Named after a tribe we have since erased
Hawks in the sky with the mask of eagles
Mammoth sea monsters, terror from the depths
The era of ‘appeasement’ is gone and gone
As we march shocked and awed to a twilight of war
*They blinded the world/ They put a crook on the throne/ They have blinded the world