The CorporalA Poem by David Lewis PagetThe
History Reconstruction Arm Of
the Ministry of Offence, Had
called me in for a meeting With
the Chiefs of Recompense, They
said they needed an agent, Prepared
to risk his all, ‘We
have the technology waiting Now
we need to change the world.’ The
shelves in the shops were empty People
fought for a loaf of bread, Butter
was unobtainable And
so was cheese, they said, The
ration cards have been in place For
fifty years or more, The
money was spent on the army, sent To
fight this terrible war. Thank
God it hasn’t gone nuclear, But
they said that it never would, The
threat of retaliation kept The
armies where they stood, The
Reds are commanding the channel coast Right
down to the Pyrenees. And
Britain is standing alone again Though
they’ve brought us to our knees. The
Fascists in Whitechapel With
their propaganda rule, While
down in Brixham Prison Lie
the hopes and dreams of fools, They
shot the Liberal Poets and Wiped
out the socialist left, They
say what’s good for the country Is
the strong arm of the west! The
States are a bristling fortress But
they’ll never come to our aid, They
say whatever they owed us Was
in 14-18 paid, They’ve
colonised the Pacific Made
New Zealand just a State, Australia’s
turned their backs on us And
left us to our fate. ‘We’ve
studied where it all went wrong,’ Said
General Angus Pryde, ‘The
Treaty of Rapallo is where The
hopes for peace had died, That
treaty, with the Russians helped The
Germans to re-arm, Under
the cloak of Soviet help, That
sounded the alarm!’ ‘The
man was Walter Rathenau Who
signed that evil form, Sold
Germany to the communists That’s
where this war was born, The
Reds then flooded Germany, The
Reds took over France, It
was only the fact of the channel coast That
halted their advance.' 'This
Rathenau was the leader when The
war was first declared, The
whole of history hinged on him And
caught us unprepared, So
what we’re now proposing is The
thing you need to do, Go
back, assassinate Rathenau In
1922.’ ‘Before
or after the treaty’s signed?’ I
asked the generals there, They
each looked, one at the other, said They
didn’t really care. ‘To
stop the Communist Party taking Over
the German mind, We’d
rather a swing to the right,’ they said, ‘And
the rest would fall in line.’ 'That
would leave a mighty hole to fill, The
German leader’s seat, Who
do you think would take his place If
I shot him in the street?’ ‘There’s
only an Austrian Corporal has The
language, and the style, But
what would a Schicklgruber do? Would
the Germans still say ‘Heil?’ David
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