A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Sunday, October 22, 2017

In Charge of Naming Battleships

if I were in charge of naming battleships
and other such contrivances
I'd give them names not like The Constitution
or The Independence

I'd give them names like
The Diversion, or
the

The Extravaganza.

This is not because I believe that warfare today
is some sham, some shame, some bread and circus
con, some ratings game, no. It is because I believe

the battleship has little to no place
in modern naval warfare.

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