Wee Poem

[maggiebee]

Was sent this by a friend in Italy and thought I'd share. No idea who Brian Bilston is.

America Is A Gun

England is a cup of tea.
France, a wheel of ripened brie.
Greece, a short, squat olive tree.
America is a gun.

Brazil is football on the sand.
Argentina, Maradona's hand.
Germany, an oompah band.
America is a gun.

Holland is a wooden shoe.
Hungary, a goulash stew.
Australia, a kangaroo.
America is a gun.

Japan is a thermal spring.
Scotland is a highland fling.
Oh, better to be anything
than America as a gun.


-Brian Bilston

[Hopkirk]

America likes to think they are the most civilised country in the world.

Until someone gets control of the gun problem, they are way off.

[gness]

Brian Bilston is the unofficial poet laureate of Twitter.....

Maggie.....when I was a child I envied my cousins whose parents had chosen to leave Ireland for America.........and all the comics and magazines I read had me drooling for that wonderful country...

Now I'm grateful mine didn't choose America.......what has gone wrong?
A country that could be truly great and contribute so much to the world is sad and grubby and a danger to the world....... :-(