Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Bulldozers just been shipped to Israel from US. Here's a poem about bulldozers.

 July 9 2025, headline in Times of Israel

IDF receives bulldozer shipment from US that was reportedly held up by Biden administration

One day...

...people made

the bulldozer:

a great power that could be put to many uses,

the bulldozer could move earth

so that there could be roads

and railways

and we would rush along

moving between villages, towns and cities

sharing what we make and know.

River banks and sea walls could be built

with a bulldozer

so that the floods wouldn’t come

and overwhelm us.

The earth could be flattened

by a bulldozer

so that we could have houses

and flats to live in.

And it was good.


And then one day

people 

saw that the great bulldozer 

could flatten the houses and flats

that men, women and children live in,

these the men, women and children

who the people didn’t like

men, women and children 

who the people didn’t want to be there

and these men, women and children 

would have to move, go, 

transfer to somewhere else.

And it was said

that if ever there were men, women and children

who got in the way of the bulldozer

they could be flattened.


Yes

people made the bulldozer.

The great bulldozer

a powerful invention that 

can be put to many uses.

I give you:

the bulldozer.