Siegfried Sassoon, 'News From the War-After-Next'

[duathir.livejournal.com]

Cross-post from war_poetry:

News From the War-After-Next

The self-appointed Representative
Of Anti-Christ in Europe having been chosen
As War Dictator, we are pledged to live
With Violence, Greed, and Ignorance as those in
Controllership of Life . . . The microphone
Transmits the creed of Anti-Christ alone.

The last Idealist was lynched this morning
By the Beelzebub's Cathedral congregation —
A most impressive and appropriate warning
To all who would debrutalize the Nation.

Our dago enemies having tried to kill us
By every method hitherto perfected,
We launch to-morrow our great new Bacillus,
And an overwhelming victory is expected.
Thus, Moloch willing, we inaugurate
A super-savage Mammonistic State.

by Siegfried Sassoon