The Recruiting Videos for the Japanese Navy Have Song-and-Dance Numbers
Big neon signs light up Tokyo. Wide-eyed cartoons
where everyone has fabulous hair. Commercials and game
shows that are nearly a war. The song-and-dance routine
on the foc'sle. The Japanese have got all that. We've got
Yosemite Sam painted on the wardroom wall. And the tomcats
On our decks go home to wives with mall bangs and
100-pound rottweilers, or to the sports bar out by the beach,
Next to Morale, Welfare & Rec, gleaming like a disco ball
In the coded beam of the lighthouse. But I don't think
They're dancing. Or singing. They ship out tomorrow and
well, someone's gotta be Japanese, yeah, but someone's
gotta fly the planes, too, and someone's gotta leave
these flyboys alone -- they're just playing pool and
the soundtrack from Top Gun, over and over again.
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