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Australian poet, Eastern Front WW2, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, Russian Bear, Syrian Campaign ww2, WW2
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(At an Australian Field Hospital in the Lebanon, June โ41)
The wounded soldier on his bed
(He came quite close to being dead)
Lights with a flaring match a fag,
Then reads the headlines of the rag:
โOf Russia We Must All Beware!โ
โWe Cannot Trust the Russian Bear!โ
Next morn the paperโs passed around,
And laughter is a frequent sound.
It seems the Reds have joined the war,
And on our side; the rag therefore
Now prints the headlines staid and wise:
โBehold Our Glorious Allies!โ
โGreat Holy Russia Joins Our Cause!โ
So goes the course of paper wars.
โ D.N. OโBrien