Safety

A war is coming
(I can safely tell you that)
A painless, packman war,
Conducted off-world,
In a newly made wasteland where people
will look to the sky and pray for
cleansing munitions.

We will send a contingent,
a footy team of fighters, to operate
in a safety zone,
to lend moral support to
BIG SLUGGER,
to whom our leader presents his head,
for a pat.
So we can be safe from those made angry
by the last war.

A war is coming
As a futurologist
I can safely tell you that.

by Terry Holliday (2004)