AMERICA, HOW MUCH IRON IS IN YOUR IRONCLAD GUARANTEE?

America’s ironclad guarantee to South Vietnam
Turned to cesium-clad guarantee
As the Vietcongs overran South Vietnam

America’s ironclad guarantee to South Korea
Turned to rubidium-clad guarantee
As the Communists partitioned Korea

America’s ironclad guarantee to Afghanistan
Turned to potassium-clad guarantee
As the Taliban overran Afghanistan

Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, Philippines…
Demand a chromium-clad guarantee from America
Or history shall repeat itself

As demand for iron explodes
America may withdraw the iron
In its guarantee and substitute it
With any ikpulity that is not iron.