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Little American boy
little Russian boy
who’ll be first
to launch an ICBM?
Little Iranian girl
little North Korean girl
who’ll be first
to build the bomb?
Little Israeli boy
little Palestinian boy
who’ll be first
to fire a salvo?
Little Indian girl
little Pakistani girl
who’ll be first
across the border?
Little Taliban boy
little NATO boy
who’ll be first
to lay a mine?
Little Sunni girl
little Shi’ite girl
who’ll be first
to suicide bomb?

Little Human boy
little Human girl
who’ll be first
to live in peace?

I like this one Boss!
You are a breath of fresh air.

Rockpiles

Collectors of rocks
are Neanderthal
and pose a threat
to all decent
Cave dwellers
grunted the Troll
with the biggest
rock pile of all.
…and so the wheel
was invented
with only one side
but two faces.

Hey boss, that little american boy would make a nice peace-making protest song...
As if some spirit of the 60's came back to check our world

…and so the wheel
was invented
with only one side
but two faces

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And I like this part of its sequence very much...
...the lurking face of practically essential parts of real world...