EMBASSY OF SIERRA LEONE
Embassy of Sierra Leone
What do you do there?
Any REAL embassy work?
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You got . .
In your flagpole.
In your driveway.
In your windows.
Anywhere!
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Can you afford to do any
REAL embassy work?
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Your air-conditioning units are . .
Your window paint is . .
Your wrought-iron window guards are . .
Their wrought-iron lyres are . .
Their wrought-iron arrows are . .
Your broken window panes are . .
All you got is a . .
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Or does all
Your money go
To fighting
Qaddafi-trained
Rebel chiefs
Who hack
Off the limbs
Of our
Former slaves
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Next door
In Freedom Land?
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Can you afford . . .
a coat of paint?
some Naval Jelly?
a single pane of glass?
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They have been known
To change
A light bulb
Or two
At the embassies of
Just down the street.
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They are poor, too
Dirt poor
So poor they
Fight over scraps.
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Embassy of Sierra Leone
You are a
Slap in the face!
A diplomatic disgrace
You offend my
Sensibilities!
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You stand there
As an afront
To me.
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I know a boy
Posted there
In your
Lion Mountains
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Yes
He's there to do
REAL embassy work
Or so they say
Or so they tell
his Mom
and his Dad.
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Because he risks
His life
At the
Embassy of
The United States of America
In Freetown
Sierra Leone.
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He risks
His life
Behind that
Billion-dollar fortress
Teeming with armed
Marines.
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But . . .
He's no diplomat
He's no keeper
Of the peace
He's a
Sitting duck!
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Sent to your
War-torn nation
With . . .
no uniform
no weapon
no training
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A fish in a
Barrel
A man in a
Glass house
A duck
On the pond.
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Long ago
We had our
Rebels, too
Now we rule the
World, so . . .
We don't have to do
REAL embassy work
Anymore.
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We just do
Whatever . . .
We want to do
Whenever . . .
We want to do it
And . . .
If you don't like it
We invade!
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We don't need
Embassies
Anymore.
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We don't need
Diplomats
Anymore.
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We don't need
Diplomacy
Anymore.
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We just
Tell you
What to do
And . . .
If you don't
Like it
We kick your butts!
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Now
All we need
Are . . .
armed camps
barricades
bastilles
bastions, and
bulwarks
citadels
fortresses
forts, and
fortifications
garrisons
military outposts
palisades
parapets
ramparts, and
redoubts, and
stockades.
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Manned by . .
lily-livered
weak-kneed
candy-assed
eggheads.
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Who think they're
Peacemakers!
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The Embassy of Sierra Leone!
I need you to do
Some REAL embassy work
Right now!
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Pass this very
Diplomatic message
To your people
Your future rebels:
"If you harm
My musician
In any way
If you touch
One hair
On his head
I will
Storm
Your chancery
I will
Leap over
Your knee-high fence
And grab your
Wrought-iron lyres and
Wrought-iron arrows and
Smash through
Your Scotch-taped
Windows
and I will
Kick your butt!"
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Then you will need . .
In your flagpole.
In your driveway.
In your window.
Somewhere!
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Because, then
You will have to do
Some REAL
Embassy work.
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