Communists Didn’t Build the DeSoto - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Communists Didn’t Build the DeSoto

 

The tailfins of a rocket protruding from the sand

                   We offer international standard rocket systems  

Out back where we stored the oxygen tanks

                   in service in more than 30 NATO

Maybe thirty feet away from ICU

                   and other countries (2.75’’ calibre

Thank God for poor Chinese quality control

                   also called 70 mm) Operational on

 

Lots of countries in the rocket racket now

                   more than 500 aircraft and helicopters

“Hi, honey; so how was your day at work?

                   this rocket system is equipped with maintainable

The children have been waiting eagerly for you

                   lightweight composite launchers with removable detents

And how nice it is that our children aren’t dead!”

                   This rocket system provides full range of rocket types

 

 

The tailfins of rockets protruding from our souls

                   offering extended range and terminal efficiency

I haven’t an answer for any of this

                   Associated large portfolio of ammunition

 

(The lines in italics are from a missile manufacturer's advertising.)