Tank Angst

 I’m a melancholy man; 

that’s what I am.

I wander only as a cloud

to elude the madding crowd

through the sands of time

with some half-stolen rhyme,

whereupon I write to tell it:

encounter with a military-industrial relic!

They say all’s fair in love and war

but ’t’was not so in Sudetenland and Saar.

Yet hitler's imitators come and go.

Methinks this old tank might have stopped the fascist show.

But now putin's tanks destroy the Ukraine

with new/old weaponry, just the same,

probably updated

but still much hated.

I hope our new tank versions 

destroy putin’s Ukraine excursions.

Smoke