forbidden sausages

you watched
a late night show
about
zeppelins. on
public television,
of course.
it was about
how the giant
floating
warships
bombed London
during world
one
with cow gut
skins
holding
the nitrogen
in.
making sausages
was forbidden
during
the war
in Germany,
because they needed
more
zeppelins in
the air to bomb
the women and
children into
submission.
just taking
sausages
off my plate would
have been
enough for
me to surrender
no matter which
side I was on.