JIHAD’S OTHER GOD
At boarding school he was a quiet boy,
shy,
showing no sign of violence,
bullied,
he didn’t ask the reason why,
taking all in silence.
At Eton
he excelled,
though,
at the Wall Game
he was beaten
and in relationships he never
gelled.
Then at Oxford,
philosophy, politics, economics.
(though he wished he had studied
bionics
to teach him something
about mainstream politics
and its histrionics)
Later he sent troops abroad
to lands that never did him
any harm,
they killed
with the aid of his god,
sometimes too much
to his populace’s alarm.
But blame it on his background,
his father’s money
hounded
to a Panamanian investment fund
to save his assets from being everyone’s
little honey bunny,
especially Her Majesty’s Inspector of
Taxes,
while he himself preached against
tax evasion
by the big business
axis.
