Bell Soldiers
They’re cast at the same factories
all shiny brass with lacquered handles.
Exact specs are maintained, checked too;
quality control must have their say.
And then there boxed and shipped away
to those that ordered them: the Red Army
Carefully dispensed with pot and stands
they are sent to the battlefields… to war.
To plunder purses and pockets and souls
with their peel, their Salvation peel.
Some play with a joyous rhythm, abandonment,
others ear deafening, incessant clangs,
still others as if dying, I don’t care attitudes.
These soldiers must carry on, battle on
in spite of the ill equipped and ill trained machines
that handle them, they must carry on,
for soldiers they…
They’re cast at the same factories
all shiny brass with lacquered handles.
Exact specs are maintained, checked too;
quality control must have their say.
And then there boxed and shipped away
to those that ordered them: the Red Army
Carefully dispensed with pot and stands
they are sent to the battlefields… to war.
To plunder purses and pockets and souls
with their peel, their Salvation peel.
Some play with a joyous rhythm, abandonment,
others ear deafening, incessant clangs,
still others as if dying, I don’t care attitudes.
These soldiers must carry on, battle on
in spite of the ill equipped and ill trained machines
that handle them, they must carry on,
for soldiers they…