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planes in k-har

So wake up and what do we find,

the men in black, oh, aren't they back!

Didnt they blow up them planes

or helped those who did

or those who helped those who did?

or so we heard, why the gringos went

to smoke them out of their vents?

The men in black, oh now so cool -

we share hugs and name our friends!

Women, they won't be flogged in fields,

nor will they chop off erring arms,

nor them planes land in k-har

in exchange for killers barred,

no buddhas left to smash,

or so they say, but for what their books say+:

so the women, just tented,

working from wherever caged,

men must never trim their manes

even the cricketers have turned out to play,

though be just the men eh!

Beware if you are a poet though,

or sing, or a singh - coz nobody sure

if you will be lynched yet;

Half the country is staying shut,

half a million may run (or so says the UN)

But they surely come in peace

armed as they go on our humvees;

Mothers throw their babies over,

what a liberation! perfect sense

to the kahn across the Durand fence;

And no we here across the Jhelum

so busy with the mayhem

that anderson's caused to our playmen;

Oh the reformed men in spotless black

they're back across the pens,

and we can now go back to sleep

with not a ***** in our conscience

 

+or as they say they say -

they all say how they say

is what the books say anyway

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Written by
prabhu-iyer
Indian
Published
Aug 29, 2021
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#black#afpak#jellystan
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