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From: mckillic@genat.UUCP (Don Mckillican)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: untitled
Message-ID: <21@genat.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 11:06:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  4 11:06:29 1986
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	See the serried ranks!
	standing proud in the strong sunlight,
	straight lines resplendent in red and white, cutting
	across the green fields like a flashing sword.

		I stand with them.
		I thrill to the trumpets and the light.
		I am invincible.

	See the serried ranks!
	striding strong across the green fields, cutting
	like a flashing sword in the strong sunlight.
	See the serried ranks,
	straight lines resplendent in blue and white, striding
	strong across the green fields to meet them.
	See the rifles lower.

		I stride with them.
		I look into the waiting mouths of death.
		I am afraid.

	See the serried ranks
	disintegrate in the rolling hail of lead,
	gaping bodies scattered, cruelly bent,
	no colour to be seen in the gutting smoke,
	but clotting blood.

	See the serried

		I


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Don McKillican
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