JACK LONDON

Sol Finkelman (solthesage@geniepub.com)
Sat, 04 Oct 1997 11:29:38 -0400 

JACK LONDON'S CHINA PREDICTION
                                          
Jack London long ago foresaw,
Japan would wake its sleeping might;
Aroused there then would be a war,
With every nation would it fight.

Its armies mastered battlefields,
Its lands remained inviolate;
To threat this nation never yields,
Its actions brought eternal hate.

Vast armies gathered at its rim,
All nations ships patrolled its shore;
Big China thought these efforts dim,
But there was still much more in store.

A single plane flew far above,
No threat did any Chinese see;
The plane was not a sign of dove,
It merely flew for victory.

Invisible the pellets dropped,
The Chinese soon saw their mistake;
The plagues once started were not stopped,
The epidemics made all quake.

The forces all around their land
Would not permit a soul to flee;
This made its people understand,
There was no mercy for their plea.

The doctors this did overwhelm,
Their medicines did disappear;
There were no leaders at the helm,
The people died in hopeless fear.

Six months and more did victors wait,
Then doctors found that all were dead;
A mighty nation met its fate,
By greed and hate had they been led.

Sol Finkelman (Story by Jack London circa 1905)

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