When the Missionaries, the Soldiers, and the Journalists Came to the Fields That Were Not Theirs - poem

Lawrence Hall
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When the Missionaries, the Soldiers, and the Journalists

Came to the Fields That Were Not Theirs

The missionaries came

And said that they were out in the far fields
Spreading the Gospel in exotic fields
Preaching and suffering out in their fields
Our homes

The soldiers came

And said that they were on the battlefields
Killing each other in their far-off fields
Cornering corpses in some foreign fields
Our homes

The journalists came

Talking, talking, talking out in their fields
Safari-costumed in their quaintish fields
And writing us as objects in their fields
Our homes