Military Intelligence

It’s a good career,
teacher said.
You will always have work,
so the girls will love you,
and you will know all the fashionable sexy language
like kill ratios, throw ratios, sound nagger, and
wankers of mass disgustion.
And if any woman or man displeases you,
say kicks you out of bed or insults your
intelligence,
you can just put them on a list
and make them disappear.
You will learn valuable skills
so even if the unthinkable happens and
peace breaks out,
you can always find a job at an ad agency,
a TV newsroom,
or as a certain type of poet
making up new words for old fashions
about why certain kinds of people
have to die.
And you will learn how to keep yourself
off such lists.