起因好战

他们读好书,并引经据典,但从未学到
一种语言 除了点燃火箭的尖叫。
我们较率直的话虽被淹没却不能打垮:
竞选,金钱,帝国,石油和老爸。

CAUSA BELLI

They read good books, and quote, but never learn
a language other than the scream of rocket-burn.
Our straighter talk is drowned but ironclad:
elections, money, empire, oil and Dad.

---by Andrew Motion