Sunday, February 1, 2009

The Great Biscuit Truck Caper






A January day on a dusty West Mosul street
Where the National Police Sherta walk their beat
There was a most heinous being
Attempting an unthinkable thing
He thought he could risk it
Selling some expired biscuits
Trying to make some illegal scratch
Selling that scrumptious twice baked batch
With amazing skill, or was it luck?
The Sherta finally stopped that truck
Like a true detective inspected the "sell by date"
That's when they noticed he'd be late
They confiscated the orange truck and trailer
The driver met up with the Jailer
Some poor unsuspecting Iraqi soul
Could have eaten an outdated roll
Good thing they were doing their job
Some of those could have ended up on the FOB
Now our General has biscuits with his tea
Hmmm.... can we get that truck for our NTV?

3 comments:

  1. FYI
    Sherta= National Police Officer
    NTV= Non Tactical Vehicle = car

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  2. I guess I should be glad you don't write poetry about me! ;-)

    Nice story 19kilojoe! Too funny!

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  3. Proof that fact is funnier than fiction! Nice poem 19kilojoe!

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