CAMBODIAN MUSIC
Pol Pot's deflowered now
who used to ride a water-
smooth buffalo
and kill onetwothreefourfive
million traitors
Justlikethat -- Jeezus,
he was an awful liar,
and what I'd like to know is
how do you like your despot now,
mister Death?
The Cambodians are divided
into two camps now:
Those under the age of 25,
and those who never thought
they would ever be 25.
This plays hell on radio
demographics and advertising
targeting, but the ones
who ate the most lizards
generally don't have
much buying power.
Old Pol Pot knew this-
He knew that intellect killed revolutionaries-
so he murdered all the teachers.
Old Pol Pot knew all this --
He knew that children
were the way of thefuture,
so he had them dismembered
in front of their mothers-
(Don't worry- witnesses say the
children were bashed against
the walls first, to soften them up)
Old Pol Pot knew all about these things-
He studied them at school in Paris.
He knew that city folks don't take well to strangers.
so he had them all herded out to the fields-
The lucky ones died on the first day.
Old Pol Pot knew a lot of things, he did.
He knew that men with eyeglasses
might become intellectual,
so he had them all shot in the street.
Old Pol Pot did much
for child labor, he did.
He put the revolutionary
children to work every day,
whacking in the skulls
of tired elderly women,
sometimes taking bets
on how many swings it would take.
Old Pol Pot understood the needs
of modern corporations, he did.
He single-handedly downsized
a country of 5 million redundant farmers
into a more manageable
3 million terrified refugees.
(He believed strongly in agrarian reform,
long before it became fashionable.)
Cambodians love their music now.
Cambodians love to hug their surviving
children, and tell them stories
about lands filled with fish and bread.
Thanks to a frail old man
named Pol Pot,
(who holed up for years
in the jungles of his own making)
Family reunions are now optional in Cambodia.
Submitted: February 04, 2021
© Copyright 2021 Michael Pollick. All rights reserved.
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tom mcmullen
Interesting poem M P, Pol Pot studied Marxism in France. Marx and his religion have a lot to answer for!
Fri, February 5th, 2021 3:18am