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Kevin Barrett
www.ladder5.org/ Illustrations by Rick Powell
On the tenth of September they passed the brew, They passed the cards and smokes. Deuces to open, he barked to the crew, And he dealt the cards and the jokes.
What d'ya know's got four legs and an arm? I dunno what? A pit bull, he laughed. What chills beer, toasts bread, and lays eggs on a farm? Close the door, will ya Phil? There's a draft.
And then the lieutenant waltzed in through the door. Kindly deal me in, girls, if you please. He hung up his coat and he strode cross the floor. How you been, number one, how's the squeeze?
Alright, Phil, how's yours? She's alright bout the same. Glad to hear it. Here, Joe, have a beer. Yea I will. Thank you, Pete. What's up, Jack? What's the game?
Five card draw, nothing wild. Put it here. They finished the hand and they dealt Joe his due, And they settled in for the night. Mike repeated the riddle that nobody knew, Least nobody'd got it right.
Lays eggs on a farm, makes toast, chills beer. Jacks open. I've got it, said Pat, A chicken, a toaster, a frig. Here Here! Said
Joe, I'll drink to that. The men played on till they saw the sun And heard the morning knell, But the sleep they wanted was overrun By a summons into hell.
Now a job's a job and a man's a man And a hero's just the same. So it is with Patrick H. McGahan And for too many more to name.
The firefighters rushed to the blazing crime Impelled by guts and heart To rescue the victims and slug through the grime, But the buildings fell apart.
The towers exploded and trembled and dropped And shook the city's core, While a rolling wave of concrete stopped The firemen evermore.
And still more sawed and fought and clawed Through the crumbling twisted pyre; They climbed and dug and heaved and gnawed And battled through the fire.
Still hundreds cried out from the gloom And hundreds more replied, And hundreds charged into the tomb Where hundreds fought and died.
And when the deadly work was done, Barbarity addressed, Three forty three had lost and won And staggered to their rest.
Later the comrades of the men Who'd battled the blazing towers Whispered a faltering amen Among the funeral flowers.
With them knelt ten thousand more Who prayed in awe and sorrow For the losses they too bore Of tomorrow and tomorrow.
Towers to the sun turned igneous, Fire and vapor and ash, Some dare call it treasonous, Others merely rash.
But truth out of chaos and festering lies Will make itself a world. The rotten, when shaken, crumbles and dies,
Leaving liberty unfurled. Great was the indisputable fact (And to that fact they clung) Buried by years of habit and tact, They wrenched it from the dung.
They wrenched it from the senators, They wrenched it from the press, From the judges and the governors And
the rest of the noblesse. They wrenched it from the corpulent The eminent and the great, They wrenched it from the insolent, They wrenched it from the state. They wrenched it from the excrement On the oval office floor, The part time White House resident, The unelected whore. They held it high for all to see Like a sword on glory's field, They waved our flag of liberty And
justice unconcealed. To all fourteen thousand they sent out alarms, To Manhattan and Brooklyn and Queens , Staten Island , the Bronx : all brothers in arms, And
they started their mighty machines. Ladder, Engine and Rescue received the brief, Battalion and Group and Division, Chaplain and pumper and driver and chief
Prepared for the fatal incision. Soon the rumbling battalions of fire engines forming A hundred thousand strong Entered the capitol, the red ranks storming, To cries from a fiery throng.
And was followed by fifty more: Daggers aimed at the White House to decapitate The regime, and to settle the score.
It deafened the dwellers inside. They sprang from their seats to see what was the matter, But, oh, twas a vengeful tide.
And washed over the rooftops besides; It crashed through the portico onto the floors And lifted the open mouthed guides. It broke through the west wing by God above blest wing, The wing where the president shivered. It was now the arrest wing by firemen possessed wing, The wing where the writ was delivered.
It's the firemen! Let's give em a cheer! You can save your breath princes. Book em, Joe. They're as guilty as anyone here.
You in your bucket of slime, Your protection's expired; stick that in your craw. You're done. You're outta time.
Fourteen thousand firefighters lined up to draw lots With captains and chiefs and lieutenants, For the chance to draw one of the five hundred slots To cull some of Washington 's tenants.
From Ladder Number Five, Such a thunderous cheer there went up for the man, For the hero who came back alive.
Fell executioners all: Headsmen who lusted to even the score And to see the Empire fall.
Of the heirs of the brightest and best, Who had sent us to rescue the gooks from the reds In a ballad of East and West.
With nodding politicians, And media whores who'd never be missed With
cabinet patricians. Now Patrick now William now Dennis now Jim Now Teddy now Hillary and Dick, On Johnny on Bernie on Nancy on Tim On Joseph on Thomas and Nick.
Did they hold a gun to your head? Were you following orders? Did you watch us bleed? Or were you just misled?
The Reckoning is nigh. The firemen wait in tumult and din To deliver a fatal reply
Who weep and pray and yield. Let the poison flow from their worthless hearts Through the ruts in a muddy field.
To say his last farewell. Meet Patrick McGahan. Put your head on the block, And then you can go to hell.
And places his axe on the stand. He takes up a stance in his best dress blues And he grins as he spits on his hand,
The bell begins to toll. Here is the block, and there's your tomb. Lord
have mercy on your soul. And then he drives it through. It lands with a frightening echoing crack.
McGahan has his due. One by one each rolling head Drops in a gruesome sac. One by one are the tumbrels led Along the deathly track. Of advisors there are four, Of diplomats eleven, Of judges are there twenty more, Of generals there are seven.
Of senators three score, Of corporate heads (forgive the pun) We chop off sixty four.
The Bureau drops a straight. The spooks are missing quite a few, The inner circle, eight.
Assorted strains of fungus . . . Bagmen, beggarmen, liars and thieves, Deduct them from the congress.
Now the deeds are almost done, The grass is a bloody brown. Bound in the tumbrel bides but one In a world turned upside down.
Fetch me one Patrick McGahan! This one's for you Pat and Ladder Five. Finish it where you began.
Goes up a joyous yell, A cheer of hope and gratitude That bounds across the dell.
Rebounds across the land, Advancing to the stand.
With a stare that is ardent and cold. He puts down his axe and he says, Fancy that, A gallon of liquid gold.
On the prisoner's head it pours, Y'all say when' when you git enough. You wanted it. It's yours.
I'll tell you a thing or two: Empire is a risky game. Or so it is for you.
A fireman that I am. The fate of the others shall be his, But first I'll have a dram
And all of our fallen friends, To all the soldiers friend and foe And
thus our story ends. With a strong right arm he throws a shot Of Irish down the hatch, Then he grabs his axe to dispatch the rot. The head he doth detach.
And a hero's just the same. So it is for Patrick H. McGahan And
for too many more to name. TOP
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