Holiday 25

ANZAC Day

War's a world turned upside-down:
You rope in blokes that don't belong
and hope that they recall the Crown
camped by the billabong.

Too late to do the banker's math
if men who shepherd could be led.
You chuck 'em in the comet's path
and tote up the compliant dead.

History's the great yeah, nah.
You hoist the flag and swear it rhymes
with a philosopher's nah, yeah--
then hoist a pint, to better times.