Chapter 55
Then the Americans dropped a very very big bomb on Japan,
2 And another one a couple of days later,
3 Which convinced the Japanese to give up too,
4 And made everything okay,
5 Except that it didn't.
Chapter 56
Unfortunately, things were not okay in Great Britain
anymore.
2 The Germans had knocked down a lot of their cities,
3 And the Germans and Japanese had killed a lot
of their troops,
4 And it seemed to a lot of Brits that duty, honor,
and tradition were getting to be pretty expensive and outdated luxuries,
5 Especially since they had all grown pretty fond
of being above it all,
6 Before Hitler came along and messed things up,
7 And now they were no longer sure of anything,
8 Except that the hard way had become too hard,
9 And the big way was was too big for a little
country,
10 Especially now that the United States and the
Soviet Union had started throwing their weight around in such an ill-bred
fashion.
11 And so the Brits politely asked Winston Churchill
to go away,
12 Immediately,
13 Or sooner than that, if possible,
14 And then politely dismantled the bankrupt remains
of their empire,
15 Stuck the White Man's Burden on a shelf,
16 And stopped trying to be a Chosen Nation altogether,
17 So that they could devote all their time to
being above it all. |
