Author’s Note: My Muse has a burr under her saddle about things…

– Arrias

What Makes Sense?

It doesn’t make much sense to me
All that is going on,
Terrorists conduct a raid
On a warm, clear dawn.
Raping, burning, killing,
Civilians, all unarmed.

More than a thousand so they say,
Hundreds more badly harmed.
Evil of an ancient kind,
Or so it seemed to me,
But then the newsman told me the truth!
From the River to the sea!

And so the call to rein Israel in,
The IDF’s response must be restrained,
We will tell them what to do,
Violence must be contained.
But for 18 months we have said,
“No one should tell Ukraine when to halt,

After all – the Bucha Massacre,
Not after such a violent assault.”
Everyone declared Putin
A war criminal beyond the pale,
But surely we must talk to Hamas,
And not get caught up in each detail.

Ukraine can fight for every inch,
We will not say a word,
But the Israelis – oh those whacky Jews,
They’re crazy, haven’t you heard?
Ukraine can seek vengeance,
Putin’s evil after all.

There’s been nothing like him
Since the garden and the Fall.
But we need to talk to Hamas,
You must understand the nuance,
It’s a very complicated process,
Only Ivy Leaguers understand the dance.

And the IDF need take a chill pill,
It was only a thousand folks or so,
Raped and burned and butchered,
Surely Israel brought it on, you know?
After all Bibi’s a terrorist,
The IDF’s attacks must cease…

Never again? Never again?
Israel’s the real threat to world peace!
Let the pros from Foggy Bottom,
And the Hague handle this,
They can talk to the folks in Tehran,
I’m sure nothing will go amiss.

The New York Times, The BBC,
They will tell us all the truth,
From the River to the Sea,
They will rewrite Ruth…
After all we’re just little peons,
They’re Ivy Leaguers with Big Brains.

So what it all seems ass end to,
Their logic tied up in chains…
So, send aid to Gaza, and to Ukraine,
Russia is beyond the pale,
Kiev gets F-16s and more missiles,
Saleh al Arouri will be a professor at Yale.

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