September 11 Digital Archive

story628.xml

Title

story628.xml

Source

born-digital

Media Type

story

Created by Author

yes

Described by Author

no

Date Entered

2002-05-17

911DA Story: Story

A Villanelle On Our Coming Victory

U.S. marines are the men of our dreams.
Helicoptered in, they're the sea on land;
A thousand of them are the top of our team.

A desert foothold, they are like cream
In our coffee, marching to angels' bands -U.S. marines are the men of our dreams.

South of Kandahar, they'll sew and seam
Bin Laden's escape like a folded fan.
A thousand of them are the top of our team.

Mullah Mohammed Omar will beam
Support like a rotted termite man.
U.S. marines are the men of our dreams

For they are going to the caves to steam
And flush to the light bin Laden
By a thousand Marines as the top of our team.

Hiding cockroaches I grind with my pen.
The terrorists'll be crushed by men;
U.S. marines are the men of our dreams -A thousand of them are the top of our team.

C COPYRIGHT 2002

Citation

“story628.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed April 7, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/6330.