The correspondent sent her kit back home after the treaty signed,
and the editors said thank you and they gave her reassigned,
to a city council meeting and a ribbon-cutting day,
and she sat there in the folding chair and tried to find a way.
Peace is boring, peace is boring,
nobody needs a photographer when nothing is exploring,
the terrible and the holy, the broken and the brave,
peace is boring, say what you will about the grave.
Peace is boring, and I will take it any day,
peace is boring, it is the thing we say,
but peace is people living through the ordinary year,
peace is someone getting home to someone without fear,
peace is boring, God, I hope it never ends,
let the slow and unreportable workday be the trend,
peace is boring, peace is boring,
and boring is the finest thing this broken world defends.
The analyst who modeled conflict for a government career,
retired to a garden and to silence and to beer,
and he says peace is boring every time his neighbor asks,
and he smiles like a man who knows the value of the tasks.
The veteran does not want excitement in the field,
the veteran wants the ordinary and the unreveal,
peace is boring, let it bore us for a hundred years,
peace is boring and I will trade the war for it without tears.