Causa Belli by Andrew Motion


Written in the wake of the Iraq war...

Causa Belli
By Andrew Motion

They read good books, and quote, but never learn
a language other than the scream of rocket-burn.
Our straighter talk is drowned but ironclad:
elections, money, empire, oil and Dad.

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