Day of Humiliation

That darkest and oldest form

Of snobbishness, a cosmic

Snobbishness, Chesterton wrote

Of attempts to gain favor

From God for military

Victory. Snobbishness seems

An odd word in this context,

But darkest and oldest work.

As for cosmic, it’s funny

To consider the cosmos

Contemplating the outcome

Of a skirmish on one world

To decide which side better

Deserved its rooting interest.

Funny, if you don’t think

How desperate all sides get

For any edge, any means

To put the other to death.