JIM TODD'S POEM

Jim and his wife have medical problems that will necessitate his missing the last two sessions. He has left us this poem to share:

 Pre-position Ships

Webster's Dictionary :

A preposition is a word expressing a relationship between a 
noun, pronoun or noun phrase and another word such as a 
noun or verb element of a sentence.

Pre-position ships stand ready

At three key points around the globe

Diego Garcia, the Marianas, and in the Mediterranean.

Twenty stories high, eight hundred feet long and a hundred feet wide.

Huge doors on their sides and bows, cranes upon their decks.

Laden with tanks, personnel carriers, humvees

missiles, bullets, grenades, machine guns,

Meals Ready to Eat,

computers, toilet paper, and tents.

All maintained ready to move

Ready to sow their dragon's teeth

anywhere on the globe.

These preposition ships

Occur in sentences or phrases which contain violent words:

war, invasion, landing, attack, shock and awe.

Expressing our relationship with the world.

Those who ‘abjure’ violence can only do so because others 
are committing violence on their behalf

George Orwell 1903-1950
                                                                     Jim Todd 10/25/2011