DID THE STORE GO BANKRUPT?

 

DID THE STORE GO BANKRUPT?

Konstantinos Konstantinidis – Amphiktyon writes

The store went bankrupt

and the shelves were left,

and the deserted old man Thomas

goes barefoot to the thorns.

He scattered his wealth

and now he has a few things.

He, like a Texan cowboy,

doesn't give up•

he grabbed his gun,

and goes on a robbery spree.

— How's the store going, old man Thomas?

— It's going badly, he answers me.

The loans ate me up.

Money has become expensive,

I can't print it.

The big boss holds it,

he gives me orders•

I try to collect it,

but the debt tightens me like a noose.

And it hurts me

The yellow man in the East,

the bear hunter in the North,

millions of third-worlders are coming in…

The way we're going, the shop

will soon close.

The only thing I have that's terrible:

Grandpa's gun, the cowboy.

He settles every dispute in a minute

and doesn't give a bill.

And the cowboy's grace•

took root in the family.

His ranch grew,

with his gun he enslaved people,

and with his ingenuity

and hard work,

Uncle Thomas's shop

became the first in all of humanity:

in quantity and quality,

but he never forgot aggression.

But lately times have changed.

From being the market leader and world leader,

the store began to decline.

"Listen, friend, if you don't steal, you won't get rich."

Like a pauper, my friends also disappeared.

Now an idea torments me:

to try once more

the cowboy behavior,

with the strongest army in the world.

Since I can't hurt them otherwise,

such as financially,

I'll bore them to death — and wherever I go.

First the weak:

thunderous blows.

Most will be afraid

as if they were tired of guns.

With robbery, I will enrich the store

and from the profit of submission.

My great-grandfather had said:

"Divide and conquer."

I will sow weeds in the earth,

at the same time

I will shout "peace" with the funnel.

I will hit them

and they will think

that they are hitting each other,

until their armies start a war.

Then I will crush them,

even with my nuclear weapons.

The first blow — my advantage.

They, you fools,

may fire a few shots•

but I will have done them the damage

We will also reduce the population! .

— Bravo, Uncle Thomas.

You arrange everything without the innkeeper.

You of the many are now a target.

Everyone now knows your plans.

Your cunning will not pass.

It looks like Hitler's recipe

You must have copied it

 

In the West, these things don't work.

They, Uncle Thomas,

are holding you back with the bonds.

And you're going to wipe them out?

Have you gone crazy, like "Thersites"?

Now you're burning down your own house.

They'll hit you in the heart

and you'll kill your children.

The worst evil: division.

In American democracy

fascism doesn't work.

In democratic values, its strength

and in the unity of the West, its power.

The American Republic will once again do great things

The American people will once again dominate

Like the front engine of the West

It will be freed from its debts and with the dollar it will prevail

It will modernize and continue in its destiny (25/1/26)

 

Amphiktyon – Major General (retd) Konstantinos Konstantinidis

Author, Member of the Society of Greek Writers

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