home Poem List next poem Tragic References Women references to females in force Endanger the lives of all world women Because thinking like soldiers their recourse Must be assumed in civil war's omen Whence planning militia regulation Fate defers to the killing of their numbers Where war finds them in conflict's situation Denials of war thought won't help slumbers Because we know among their own known ranks Dangers by self acclaim may well now lurk Their prelates have lied 'neath guise of their thanks Whence we must assume loyalty they'll shirk Children tell mothers whatever they see So their children too must also be killed Unfortunate is social remedy Mistakes some immigrants make of what's willed Misinterpretation of past treaties Founding constitutional agreements Finds no relief for incompetencies For death must not forgive what Life laments Females have sought to disarm citizens Organizing their numbers' fatal votes Machines won't distinguish their denizens When they are drowned by death in social motes (c)ERA 08:52 AM 3/22/03