Yet Another White Sahib Dismisses the Dead - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Yet Another White Sahib Dismisses the Dead

 

"This is not abandonment; this is not an evacuation.”

 

-State Department Spokesman Ned Price, 12 August 2021

 

While Afghan heads, like American guarantees

Roll in the dust of Kandahar’s grim streets

Our diplomats demonstrate their expertise

Executing again their skillful retreats

 

An elegant man at a microphone

Unctuously soothing the doubtful press

Denies that our client state has been overthrown

In a futile game of colonial chess

 

The dead cannot argue what Ned Price might say -

It seems their blood has blotted his resume

 

['Not an Evacuation,' Insists State Department as Pentagon Sends 3,000 Troops to Evacuate U.S. Personnel by Spencer Brown (townhall.com)]