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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Sleek bomb

Sleek Bomb.

The smart bomb fell silently, not for it
to scare people witless by whining like
a demented, diving Stuka bomber plane.

Down, it jumped from house to house to
see who was in, blew itself up in the yard
of a kindergarten.

“Insurgents had been seen coming out
of that place” an aid to a general said,
“we are so very sorry,”

Fragments of the bomb reassembled,
whole again it laughed, so very smart,
this war is going to last.

Stuka: German bomber plane in the war
1940-45

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