Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
and build them a home, a little place of their own,
The Fletcher Memorial
Home for incurable tyrants and kings.
They can appear to themselves every day
on closed circuit TV,
to make sure they're still real.
It's the only connection they feel.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome
Reagan and Haig, Mr. Begin and friend,
Mrs. Thatcher and Paisley, Mr. Brezhnev and party,
the ghost of McCarthy
and the memories of Nixon.
And now, adding color, a group of anonymous
Latin American Meat packing glitterati.”
Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?
They can polish their medals and sharpen their smiles
and abuse themselves playing games for a while:
Boom, boom, bang, bang, lie down you're dead.
Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
their favorite toy,
They'll be good girls and boys
in the Fletcher Memorial Home
for colonial wasters of life and limb.
Is everyone in?
Are you having a nice time?
Now the final solution can be applied!