Snatch Landrovers

Cold hard steel boned body armour barricaded
metal diesel eater.
From snatching the Irish on wheel easy tarmac
To defending the British on Arabic sand.
 Defending with metal that lets bullets melt
through steel like butter.
Eye for eye and everyone’s blinded
in the fog of exploding dust of
a roadside bomb.
IED’s planted like decoration on
a beige terrain where huge vehicles stand out
like peacocks in the desert -
Yellow green plumage outstanding obviously
to watching sand chameleons.
For only £50,000 pretty cheap
and pretty speedy
but we’ve all got flaws and there are flaws
in being cheap
and easy. Soldiers become casualties as
they have to handle vehicles
that can’t defend from fire blasts and machine rounds.
While unable to cover soft ground
regularly stuck in water pools with
mud wedged wheels unable to survive the
conditions of the ground blasting beneath
the drivers seat. And as
resigning commanders begging political
investment get no vehicle response the
headlines scrutinize every government move as
the mobile coffins amongst
crew wait to die in their seats.
In the so called
protected patrol vehicle.