"Ode to a Wahabbi Jihadist"

Winds of Change was kind enough to publish a ditty of mine as a diary post. I confided to J.K. that I had originally posted this over at The Command Post back in April when the Fallujah insurgency heated up. I had called it Ode to the Violent Shia. It then grew legs and walked over to LGF, posted by someone other than me, which is always sincere flattery.

O to the pitiless, violent Salafist
your leaders betray you
rivers of blood will course through
your poorly maintained thoroughfares
A battle with no end is upon you
The Coalition, may peace be upon Her...
will restore Arab magnificence
the crushed bodies of your martyrs sully your soil
there is an offensive stink to your dead
Democracy will liberate your women
they shall bare their heads and their breasts
in jubilation
you are powerless and pitiless and will get devilish scourges
Lay down your insignificant weapons
bury your dead so the odious stench does not blight
the new land of the free
get a small business loan at a low interest APR
endeavour to submit to your occupiers
get a convertible with your profits
live a little

Now, it was initially meant to be a satire on the fevered poetics that Islamists use (who can forget the poem that included the line "the Mother of All Battles has begun"). I was trying to provide an American counterpoint, I suppose. Anyway, W.O.C. provided me with a comparison to The Bard, which is unwarranted flattery. OT, my wife is appearing as Lady MacBeth this weekend along with my daughter who plays the Boy MacDuff in The Bard's own "MacBeth". I will play a marching bass drum and attempt to simulate "thunder". It should not be missed.

Then Kris Nichols and I are off to the Red Eye Coffee House to stoke the get-out-the-vote revelry with our songs of agitprop and anti-fascism. It is our contention that Kris' song "Criminals From Texas" has a short shelf life and we need to play it at every opportunity in the next few days. Similarly, I wrote a song about the war called "No Different", a Toby Keith-like song called "Ready For a Reckoning", and a tune called "I'm Free" that will not fit within the context of a Kerry Presidency. We have high hopes of retiring the tunes tomorrow night.