Herbert Arnould Olivier, British
“No Sir, That’s Not a Bombing Target. That’s Just Some Caramel Drizzle. Sorry — I Was Working On This at Starbucks,” ca. 1944
Oil on canvas
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/// Every top Nazi target’s been tracked,
but they can’t let them all be attacked.
Those in Bomber Command
mustn’t thus tip our hand
to the Krauts that Enigma’s been cracked.
/// So they’re forced here to pick and to choose,
so the Nazis cannot spread the news
that we’ve broken their code.
Our intel would implode.
To defeat them, we sometimes must lose.
/// They’re aware of the death camps, of course.
Should they try to disrupt them by force?
Schedule bomber attacks
on the cattle-car tracks?
They vote no— but, perhaps with remorse.
/// Nineteen forty-three, month of October.
We could shoot down an Oberst named Kroeber.
To cross certain borders
we’d need higher orders,
but it’s nighttime and Churchill’s not sober.