The man is now Iranian
Who used to be a Persian.
I wonder what he’s ganian
With his reconversion?
And some wild Mesopotamian
With harems by the block
Said “Watch who you’re defamian
For 1 am from Iraq.”
Then some Big Shot, once Siamese
From that old do-or-die land
Pleads with his neighbors, on his knees,
To call his country Thailand.
Beware, though, all you foreign folk!
I’ll kick him in the slats
Who calls, in his attempt to joke,
Americans Democrats.
by Ray Romine Sunday, February 11, 1951
