A Falkland 'No' to Fascists Right and Left
VIERECK, PETER
A FALKLAND 'NO' TO FASCISTS RIGHT AND LEFT "Britain'sFleet Sails to Falkland Islands"—News item, April5,1982. We pre-Viet vets of the last just war, Once knowing what Britain was bleeding for, Now...
...Has Britain's brow lost its laurel...
...Came a YES to you Churchill, you Orwell...
...We pre-Viet vets of the last just war, Once knowing what Britain was bleeding for, Now hoped for one clear NO or YES: Are her daughter islands motherless...
...Dead Churchill, dead Orwell, come ghost-write the Falkland story: When Auschwitz and Katyn were tearing Poland to shreds, You gave us a Brown-baiting Tory And a socialist baiter of Reds...
...Is the Munich umbrella aspirant...
...Came a NO to a fascist tyrant...
...She did it when Philip came warring, She did it to Sun King and Boney...
...Who'll serve our slandered Churchillian cause Against Right and Left twins?—we who've witnessed A bear with Polish blood on his paws And a gaucho with Jews on his hit-list...
...Holyoke College and long-time NL contributor, is finishing his new book of poems, Applewood, and preparing updated editions of his "Brown-baiting, Red-baiting" works, Metapolitics and Conservatism...
...Let Empire end, but why betray its islets To cop-docks who lock up the sane Or a wheat-vending junta whose "Christian" pilots Daily dump Christ from a plane...
...She who gave us Shakespeare's theater, She who gave us Milton's meter, She who gave us James' Book, What will she do for the Land of Falk...
...Peter Viereck PETER VIERECK, a Pulitzer Prize poet, professor of history at Mt...
...Her RAF did it to Goering When the mother of islands stood lonely...
Vol. 65 • May 1982 • No. 9
