ASSAULT OF THE REAL MEN

ASSAULT OF THE REAL MEN

they imagine
         their captain
be Leonidas

they the brave 300
out to hold
the hot gates
save civilization
from
   Xertes horde

who have
stayed at home
drinkimg tea, reciting slogans
and poems
holding  impromtu history lessons
unarmed, democratic
and anti-
imperial to the core