The greatest circus

the idea fr the poem came from a chat i was havin with my friends when we were discussin how many countries in the world are famous fr really inconsequential things. We'd made a joke on Ireland n U2 then, n this was the product...of course the hate fr US's democracy of hypocrisy is all too apparent here...

I was bored as hell and didn’t know what to do,

So I opened my atlas and was browsing through.

My thoughts drifted to what each country had done,

What they’d cost the world and what they had given.

Thank you Japan, for Sony and Playstation,

From the kamikazes to the humorless animation.

Thank you China for a duplicate version of everything,

Like the hundred bucks i-pod that ends up in the bin.

Thank you England, for sounding as if you can’t poo,

Ireland, heck, all you gave us was U2!

Thank you France, for words no one understands,

At least Germany has cars, beer and crazy rock bands.

Cameroon, where the heck are you anyway?

Didn’t give a damn till I read about you today.

It’s great Israel, that you don’t trust anyone brother,

So small, I shout at one border, you hear it at the other.

Come on Pakistan, fund that new terrorist group,

A new government in Sri Lanka, time for another coup.

South America, who cares? Just keep dribbling that football,

If it wasn’t for your pyramids Egypt, no one would care at all.

Finally the US of A, ah what a saga of a nation,

Trying everything from sex and drugs to stupid tax evasion.

With all fancy talk of gadgetry and your glitzy awards,

You still couldn’t save two buildings fall like a house of cards.

So despite our cows on roads, and our trademark chicken curry,

And actors doing pelvic thrusts without a worry,

For a nation of a billion people, we ain’t all that bad,

Because the world’s pretty messed up, already pretty mad!