the Romans taught the Brits a new way
of organized killing for profit and to pray
over a millenia later in the new world
the same rotten banner was unfurled
and we're still enduring the effects to this day
exported on the tips of their spars
the guns and swords leave the scars
of the mercantile class
with their book and military brass
now painted with stripes and with stars
stephenhsmith 21Jun2007
