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It's called "Buying Rations in Kabul"
"The Uzbek boys on Chicken Street
have never had enough to eat.
They stock from shelf to shining shelf
these G.I. meals, which boil themselves
in added water (bottled, please).
In twenty minutes, processed cheese
on jambalaya, followed by
a peanut-butter jamboree.
The boys, polite,
advise on which we might prefer---
beef teriyaki, turkey blight---
and thank us twice for bringing peace
as, meals in hand, we leave teh store.
Of course they know that any peace
that must be kept by force
contains another name. It's war."
Answers: If so..what does this mean?
It's called "Buying Rations in Kabul"
"The Uzbek boys on Chicken Street
have never had enough to eat.
They stock from shelf to shining shelf
these G.I. meals, which boil themselves
in added water (bottled, please).
In twenty minutes, processed cheese
on jambalaya, followed by
a peanut-butter jamboree.
The boys, polite,
advise on which we might prefer---
beef teriyaki, turkey blight---
and thank us twice for bringing peace
as, meals in hand, we leave teh store.
Of course they know that any peace
that must be kept by force
contains another name. It's war."
local boys from the city of Uzbek (in middle east) live on a street that is nicknamed or officially called Chicken street. Local boys are selling the peace keeping troops MRE's. An MRE means Meal Ready to Eat. Military freeze dried tv dinner packets. One must insert these MRE's into boiled water (or use the heater pack inside of them) to prepare them to be edible. Since fresh food, grocery stores and butchers are not in high supply (along with the freedom to have an economy or support a community with fresh markets) they eat these MRE's than regular food.
The boys tell the troops they are greatful for their service and know that freedom sits waiting in the rafters. Boys know that war is still an existing threat, and until war stops, their society will not be free to live as most of us do.