Geronimo regret

Don't go down with a Geronimo regret.

Don't give up. They haven't beat you yet.

Don't go down with a Geronimo regret.

Keep on fighting 'til you're the last man left. 

Even when there's no hope that you can win this fight,

keep on fighting because your cause is right. 

Keep on fighting until there's no-one left.

Don't go down with a Geronimo regret. 

(Geronimo's lest words were "I should never have surrendered. I should have kept fighting until I was the last man.")

Cargoes

Excavations of Nineveh and Ur of the Chaldees,

hoards of ancient clay tablets,

cuneiform tales of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, 

records of astronomies and inventories,

of kings and calendars and copper.

Libraries of Alexandria and Baghdad,

magnificent by the Nile and Euphrates

home to scrolls transmitting philosophy 

from Greece, mathematics from India,

and Arab star charts and geographies. 

Disclosure of materials responsive 

under the Epstein Files Transparency Act,

women and children as commodities,

consumables, props to ego, toys to break

and cast aside before the next delivery. 

(What would John Masefield make of our world today?)