The Consummate Fallen Angel
Robert Higgs • Sunday, March 1, 2015
The devil is agile and quick on his feet
He fought at Gettyburg
From beginning to end
And never got a single scratch
At Verdun and the Somme back in ‘16
He displayed his great flair
For adding large numbers
Of young souls wickedly squandered
Dulce et decorum est, he shrieked,
As the Brits and the Yanks
Stoked the fires of hell at Hamburg
In Operation Gomorrah
A master linguist, he spoke fluently in
Vietnamese, French, and English
Amid fetid fields and burnt villages
Fouled by napalm and rotting flesh
He never tires and needs no maps
Finding his way through the world with ease
As if he has visited each place
Many times before, since the dawn of time
