Friday, August 18, 2006
Bureau of Death
-We don’t differentiate anymore. Patriots on foreign fields
or insurgents here. Efficient disposal rules out niceties.
-Families?
-You mean good ones with patriotic sons and daughters
who fell in honor?
-Yeah. I guess.
-We’ve stopped notifying them. Job too tremendous to do that.
-So,pretty much,all thrown in the same hole. Here and everywhere.
-‘Twere unpoetic so to put it.
-How about the echo of that ringing shall not have die in vain...?
-Who ever believed that anyway? My job is numbers!
-Well what are they?
-Which period?
-Last month.
-Million-six. Give or take.
-Depopulating the nation!
-Lift a glass to Tommy Malthus.
-We don’t differentiate anymore. Patriots on foreign fields
or insurgents here. Efficient disposal rules out niceties.
-Families?
-You mean good ones with patriotic sons and daughters
who fell in honor?
-Yeah. I guess.
-We’ve stopped notifying them. Job too tremendous to do that.
-So,pretty much,all thrown in the same hole. Here and everywhere.
-‘Twere unpoetic so to put it.
-How about the echo of that ringing shall not have die in vain...?
-Who ever believed that anyway? My job is numbers!
-Well what are they?
-Which period?
-Last month.
-Million-six. Give or take.
-Depopulating the nation!
-Lift a glass to Tommy Malthus.
