2014 04 – poem about Crimea

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Russians in the Crimea want it back,

Muslim Tartars again await their fate.

1783, Catherine the Great

annexed the peninsular for the craic.

The Tartars came seven hundred years ago

with Genghis Khan, liked it so much they stayed,

then Hitler Khan whom the Tartars obeyed.

Jailed to Uzbekistan, wrong the West crows

while drone-bombing Muslims everywhere.

But they know the art of hypocrisy –

brass neck, brazen attitude, steady stare,

the very essence of democracy.

Could they carry on if the truth was to flare.

Much better then to live in degeneracy.

 

Wilson John Haire. 10th March, 2014